Chi Tong Bei style. 8 Step 13 Saber Form

(BaBu ShiSan Dao ) The representative saber set from the Chi TongBei style. Complete breakdown of the form and even SABER USAGE, something you don t see much of today. Demonstrator, Teacher: Shan Chang Wen. Chi Family Tongbei is one of the oldest forms of TongBei we know. In midChing times it was taught by Lu Yun Ching to Chi Hsin. From this we have the Chi family branch which is taught in Hebei Province. Lu s other disciple was named Shi and these were for a long time the dominant branches. Chi Tai Chang s son, Chi Hsin taught in Hebei during the late Ching. Though called Chi style it was later renamed Tong Bei. Chi s son, Chi Tai Chang, developed the techniques so much further that there are still two styles of this lineage, one from the father and another from the son. All TongBei technique retains martial usage and especially emphasizes one of the key principles of WuShu, namely the unification of the spine to all generation of power. TongBei movements are loose yet crisp and pow