This is THE book for all martial artists who wants to practice fighting techniques with weapons. Even though the title of the book is "Sword Treatise", it is actually based on fighting with a wooden Staff.

 

     The author of "Sword Treatise" is 俞大猷 (Yu Da-You) is a famous Ming-Dynasty General in the 1600s who defend China against the Japanese pirates invasion. Legend has it that General Yu visited Shaolin Temple, and improved on the monks' Staff techniques with his own teachings. He later wrote and compiled 正氣堂集 (Zheng Qi Tang Ji), "Compilation of Vital Energy". In his book, is a section called 劍經 (Jian Jing), "Sword Treatise".
 

     In Chinese martial arts, the Staff is considered the Chief of all weapons. This is because all weapons' techniques trace their roots to the Staff. Therefore, Staff training serves as a foundation towards learning the fighting techniques of other weapons.

     Sword Treatise is a compilation of General Yu's martial arts knowledge, and contains very deep and in-depth concepts on weaponry combat. If you are able to understand the principles in this book, you will be able to apply them in using the Sword, Spear or any other weapon.

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     This book is recommended for the intermediate to advanced martial arts practitioners. If you have some previous history with any weapons training, you'll find it easier to understand this manual.

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     Sword Treatise is, by far, the toughest book that I'd worked on. A lot of cross-references, asking veteran martial artists, and researching had to be done over a period of 7 to 8 brain-wrecking months, before I was able to release the English translation.

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     Many times I felt like giving up and working on something easier, but I felt a strong calling that this book was too important to pass over. And I was right. I still refer back to this book frequently.

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     If there is only 1 book that you'd ever get on ChineseLongsword.com, get this Sword Treatise. This is currently the most advanced book on this website, and it will help you to become proficient with ANY weapon.

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     If you don't understand the book when you read it, just go out and practice more with a good teacher. Then when you pick up the book again, you'll be like "Oh...now I get it."

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     Sword Treatise is also the 1st book that I specially paid extra money to publish it using traditional Chinese stitch-binding, which is to tie the pages together like how they did in ancient China.

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     I hope when you flip open this book, you'll get inspired by the wisdom of General Yu Dayou and past warriors, and pass on their martial arts legacy.

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Contents (320 pages, A5-size):

• Foreword

• Song of the Art

• Trident Practice

• Song of the Art (Core Concepts)

• Movement Practice

• Techniques List

• Techniques Applications (1 to 180)

• 14 Staff Stances

• 9 Trident Stances

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Features to help you learn & understand:

• Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation for all Chinese text
  To help you pronounce the stances' names accurately.

• Chinese text side-by-side with the English translation
  For your reference to the meaning of every word.

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Thank you,

Jack Chen