Pumpkin Plunging with Tai Chi Big Knife

Autumn Applications of the Tai Chi Broadsword Form

Halloween marks the beginning of the darkness. Split between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Soltice, this famous and fantastic Holiday widens eyes with ecstatic treats and tricky terrors.

Halloween dons dark disguises:

• All Hallow’s Eve
• All Saints’ Day
• All Souls’ Day
• Day of the Dead
• Feast of All Souls
• Hallowmas
• Samhain

Whatever Halloween wears, we know it chops off the harvest season, cutting the waning light with looming dark. It plunges excitement into hearts of candy-loving children, and it slashes images of razor-bladed apples into the minds of parents. Halloween wears a dark shroud, wields a dark scythe.

Time For Big-Knife Form!

With the dead rising from graves, skeletons clanking from closets, and zombies clawing for brains, you better know your stuff. So we’ll study, in-depth, the beginning movements from the Chang Yiu Chung Big-Knife (Broadsword) Form. The first three movements teach us deep relaxation, soft motions, and carrying the weight of a Big Knife. In the next three, we get to—cross-cut, stab, and split! Hack apart Tai Chi Principles using the Big-Knife Broadsword Form and Pumpkin Victims.

Remember, already this year….

• Thieves shredded our economy,
• Robbers gutted the banks
• Ghostly (white) politicians, gushing with bleeding hearts, stabbed fear into our people!

Prepare for Doom! Fight back with a Big-Knife! (For educational purposes only; not to be used for mortal combat.)

Lifting the Veil

When we interpret the Tai Chi Broadsword Form as Tai Chi Big Knife Form, we chop off pretentions, drowning in the goo of practical possibilites. Behind the guise of fancy sword methods lurks modern, practical applications. Wack apart thugs or zombies. Chop up wood or hack skeletons. Cut vegetables. Slice ghostly shrouds. Sever fruit. Cleave pumpkins. A Big-Knife has enormous potential.

It’s a personal thing. Your Big-Knife extends past your elbow. Holding your Big-Knife handle in your palm, the hilt against your wrist, the blade reaches, proximally, an inch or (a lot) more past your elbow—that’s a Big-Knife! Certainly a Chinese Broadsword qualifies. (Bring your own, or we’ll provide some little, Big-Knives.) These fine implements qualify:

• Broadsword
• Machete
• Large Kitchen Knife

Move Softly and Carry a Big-Knife.

Here’s quick preview: Erle Montaigue demonstrating

The Chang Yiu-Chun Big Knife Form

This article is just for fun. Any connections to real life or suggestions of apocolypse, armageddon, chaos, killing, or revenge are only in jest. Practice the Chang Yiu-Chun Broadsword Form for real, and remember this article is for fun! Relax, learn something about the movements, and hack some pumpkins. And have fun.