D5. Wudang Baxian Sword
elementary: 4 months; intermediate: 2 months
This swordsmanship blends the physical body shapes and manners of the legendary Eight Fairies with Wudang martial arts. It fully performs the postures of the Eight Fairies with its eight basic laws, including hitting, stabbing, paring, pointing, quivering, cutting, 雲 and poking. So, the movements and fighting skills are implied by the shapes and postures. The swordsmanship mimics the drunken manner naturally that the body seems drunken but the stances steady, the stances drunken but the mind clear and the mind drunken but the spirit awaken. All the movements are very simple and natural. It is a mixture of charming forms and spirit and strength and softness. The swordsmanship also looks like the various changes arising when a strolling dragon plays with a pearl. In short, it is a practical and interesting martial arts..
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