HUMAN-CHARACTER BUTTERFLY KNIVES
OR DOUBLE SOUTHERN KNIVES
Picture Series
Grandmaster Wong demonstrating a pattern called “Jade Girl Combs Hair” from the Human-Character Double Southern Knives
The Butterfly Knives or Double Southern Knives were very popular in South China where narrow streets and crowded environments favored such short, light weapons for combat.
The set below, called “Human-Character Double Southern Knives”, is composed from the essence of two sets — “Crossroad Double Southern Knives” of Uncle Righteousness of Southern Shaolin, and “Human-Character Knives” of Sifu Choe Hoong Choy of Choe Family Wing Choon. “Human-character” is so-named because the two knives are held like the Chinese character for “human”. This is an effective technique to dislodge an opponent's weapon. Do you know how this can be done by looking at the pictures of the relevant pattern?
Besides being effective for close-range fighting, these short, light weapons are also effective against long and heavy weapons. Can you tell which patterns in the set below are effective counters against long or heavy weapons like spears and big tridents?
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The names of the patterns, the Chinese (Cantonese) pronunciation and the Chinese characters are provided by Sifu Michael Chow of Shaolin Wahnam Canada, with the help of Sifu Zhang Wuji of Shaolin Wahnam Singapore. We wish to thank Sifu Michael Chow and Sifu Zhang Wuji for their splendid effort.
LINKS