Introduction To Weapons
No other Martial Art can boast of a range as wide or as varied as the systems of Gung-Fu. In the present, students learn mainly unarmed combat. With some techniques used against armed opponents.

In our style of Gung-Fu there are complete weapon sets which are as important as unarmed sets in the standard curriculum. In the past weapon sets were even more important than unarmed ones. This was natural at the time, as who would not use a weapon if it was allowed to be carried freely?
However, carrying a weapon is now illegal in most countries. Why then, you may ask, learn to fight with weapons.

if you are not likely to use them in real combat?
The reason is that these systems originally included weapon systems and to exclude them would make them incomplete. Also when learning these weapons it will enable you to improvise in a street situation e.g. with a piece of wood. It also enables you to deal with weapons used against you. Many modern improvised weapons are images of classical weapons, a broken bottle acts like a dagger, a bicycle chain is like a soft whip, a heavy object is like a round hammer.
If you carry weights while you practice your unarmed sets, you will not only find it more tiring, but you can increase your stamina and power. Practising weapon sets is similar to this in many ways and you will probably prefer to hold a novel and often-fanciful weapons, rather than dull dumbbells. Some special skills are required for, or achieved through, the use of certain weapons and these skills are generally also helpful in unarmed combat. In practising with long, heavy weapons like the Trident or Guan Knife, for example, you need stable stances, consolidated in weapon sets, you can transfer them to unarmed forms enabling you to swing an opponent off of his or her feet.<

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