The Chen Taiji routine is made up of thirty phrases that run like a poem. The main applications of this weapons They are chop, cut, pierce, parry, thrust, intercept, press, push, slice, block and swing in figure-8 form. Here is a clip by Ni ShiQing ( 倪世清）, a disciple of Chen Zhenglei. Ni handles this weapon with ease and displays lots of power with this routine.

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This weapon routine is not commonly taught beyond China. In the Chen village,  Chen XiaoXing’s school teaches them. Let look at the 2 routines here and you will see how it is being used. The common ways of using this weapon is to whack, hack, press, whirl. There is some similarity to the Chen Taijiquan Spring and Autumn Falchion routine.

First we have the smaller one, 梢棍

Next we will have the bigger one 梢杆。 Look at 0:27 . Can you do it?

Little has been wrote about this weapon of Chen Taiji – the double mace 锏. It is considered to be a short weapon with a square cross section. Usually made from copper or iron, it it about 4 feet long. The diagram above is scanned from a 1992 special issue of the shaolin and taichi magazine.

Here is a clip showing the performance of the double mace form by Chen ZiQiang. In this vide, he seems to be using sticks to replace the mace.