chinese wooden bench form; style?

[e_speedygonzales]

does anybody know about this style? i think it is in Jackie Chan's drunken master, but i don't know where to find it.
I've tried internet everywhere. does anybody no anything about this weapon?

 

[Xue Sheng]

I am guessing that like many of Jackie Chan’s movies he was just looking for an interesting fight scene. He has also used a ladder, a bag of concrete, and a refrigerator door.

I do not know of any Chinese form for a wooden bench or any Chinese style the even utilizes one for training as a weapon.

 

[Journeyman]

The horse bench is one of the weapons taught in Choy Lay Fut. Dunno if it's in any other styles or not.

 

[chris lomas]

There are also bench forms in some Lineages of Hung Gar and Mok Gar. They are good fun for conditioning

 

[clfsean]

Chris Lomas & Journeyman hit it.

CLF & Hung Ga for sure. It seems to be a southern weapon primarily. Never seen it from the north, but that doesn't preclude it being found in the north.

 

[funnytiger]

Jow Ga also has a wooden bench form, Kiu Dun.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Then I am happily wrong and now intrigued, I need to look into this.

I will add I have never seen it in a Northern style either

 

[funnytiger]

I was noticing the trend... Southern folk love their bench form!

 

[Whitebelt]

I have no information on this style but i have a video of a really short bench form, hope this is interesting to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv9QDtEY8Z0&NR

 

[Flying Crane]

The Okinawans got nothing on the Chinese when it comes to converting daily tools into weapons.

I'm currently working on the Bathroom Sink set, complete with toothbrush and water glass...

 

[Jimi]

The Wooden Bench Rules. I'm glad to see people discussing it. Like Flying Crane said, leave it to a chinese system to develop such a weapons at hand skill. I'm sure that a bench like used in these arts and in Jackie movies were very common, and the skills to use it in defense were needed indeed when such skills were developed. COOL STUFF! Love it. PEACE

 

[Flying Crane]

I was reading a little bit about the bench a few years ago in one of the Martial Arts rags. Many weapons will help you develop strength and power thru practice. But the bench is one of those things that you really need to be strong first, to even begin training with it. Definitely not a weapon for everyone.

I suppose we will start seeing the Modern Wushu people using benches made out of Balsa Wood, and flipping them 20 feet in the air and catching them one-handed...sort of defeats the whole purpose of training with the weapon, developing tremendous power and strength by training with a heavy implement. That's always been my beef with the use of lighter and lighter weapons. The training begins to lose a lot of integrity and becomes downright silly when they become mere toys and stage props.

 

[clfsean]

I have no information on this style but i have a video of a really short bench form, hope this is interesting to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv9QDtEY8Z0&NR

Hard to tell... I believe it's CLF, but not 100% sure