by Walter Wong » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:49 am
Training the staff first is the foundation to learning spear.
Training saber aka broadsword is the foundation to learning jian/gim/straight sword.
Though I don't find it hurt to learn either spear before staff or jian before saber. But this is of the choice of your teacher so do whatever your teacher tells you to do.
Spear and jian/straight sword being the higher end weapons to lower end weapons like staff and saber, in my opinion, learning higher end stuff first (although would take a long while) would enable one to use/learn the lower end weapons rather quickly.
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