What Weapon Does Jackie Chan Use Here inDrunken Master II
Something I've been wondering about lately is whether there's a formal name for the splintered bamboo pole Jackie uses in the Tea Room Fight. I know Jackie has always been great at improvisational weapons, but most of them can be traced back to classic forms. Like ladders are just pole arms with extra steps (ba-dum tis). But I'm at a loss to think of what weapon forms you could train in to even have an idea of how to use something like this effectively. It's like a pole arms, but it's also like a parasol and maybe a whip. I just don't know how to describe what it does. Does this kind of weapon have a formal name, or was this something invented by Jackie Chan and no one ever thought to expand on it on other movies or in real life?
Something I've been wondering about lately is whether there's a formal name for the splintered bamboo pole Jackie uses in the Tea Room Fight. I know Jackie has always been great at improvisational weapons, but most of them can be traced back to classic forms. Like ladders are just pole arms with extra steps (ba-dum tis). But I'm at a loss to think of what weapon forms you could train in to even have an idea of how to use something like this effectively. It's like a pole arms, but it's also like a parasol and maybe a whip. I just don't know how to describe what it does. Does this kind of weapon have a formal name, or was this something invented by Jackie Chan and no one ever thought to expand on it on other movies or in real life?