Wushu Butterfly Twist with a Long Weapon

This video shows how to do a wushu butterfly twist with a long weapon. Long wushu weapons are: Spear (qiang) Staff (gun) Pudao etc. Also check out the animated wushu section, the artistic gymnastics section, or go back to wushu videos main.

Execution

First of all, learn the butterfly runup with your wushu weapon.
Then do the butterfly runup and a wushu b-kick (no twist yet).
And when you want to try the twist, for long weapons there are 2 ways to do this:
Swing your weapon under your shoulder (old version) or hold your wushu weapon with both hands in front of your chest (new version). I recommend the version with both hands, because if you want to learn the 720 later, this will be more difficult if you are used to swinging your weapon under your shoulder.

Advice

Even if you don't practice the staff (gunshu), you should try this with a staff first. The wushu staff is shorter than the spear and also easier to handle than the pudao.
Don't try the butterfly twist with a wushu weapon if you can't do it without weapon. Your b-twist without weapon should actually be pretty good before you give this a try.

Performance

In this Video: Song Long Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School
Team: School Team 1 - Song Jiang Wushu School
Coach: Wang Guang Ming
Taped by: Mavi

Suggestions

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