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Animated humor #7 - Haggis Killer - 12-01-2005
Not specifically for DM, but it does have monks in it...
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I want to be a monk! - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 12-01-2005
At least the live one. I did like the one monk he peed himself. Very subtle.
Same thing happened at Shaolin Temple... - Drunk Monk - 12-09-2005
...'cept all the monks were wearing orange.
Best weapon - The Queen - 12-10-2005
I liked the rubber ducky that got thrown with the other weapons.
Believe it or not... - Drunk Monk - 12-10-2005
There are two 'duck' weapons in Chinese martial arts. One is the iron duck. This consists of what I like to call 'ducks on a stick' - imagine a rubber duck cast out of metal and set upon the top of a metal rod, like a mace. They are usually used as a paired weapon and it's extrememly rare, although I have seen footage of a form before. The other is the flying mandarin duck. The story goes that some scholar had a stone duck paperweight and threw it in self defense once. It killed his assailent so he created a whole art based on throwing stone ducks. There was a sequel tale where a studnet of his lineage threw a duck at this female rival, and she threw a duck back. The ducks colided in midair and they realized they were both decended from the same school, fell in love, and wed. There is also a traditional duck style of kung fu - I actually did a short write up on it in an article I did around '99 surveying weird animal styles.
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
Oh, come on... - Haggis Killer - 12-12-2005
Yes you could.
call me a quack - Drunk Monk - 12-12-2005
Click http://www.plumpub.com/sales/vcd/coll_duck.htm for duck style
The flying duck was from Ancient Chinese Hidden Weapons by Douglas H. Y. Hsieh. It was an odd, small press book, like so many kung fu books. And if memory serves, the flying duck had a version where the wings worked as retractable blades. It's out of print, but I have a copy.
The only duck-on-a-stick reference I have is in the Shaolin Encyclopedia, I think. It's all in Chinese, and I'd have to really dig to find it because it's for volumes. The form is documented there in these rather primative line drawings, with accompanying descriptions.
You see why I went from fencing to kung fu? Kung fu is far more colorful (plus I look horrid in knickers, especially white knickers).