Reconstructing the Hanwei Pudao Part I: Building a beast

It’s difficult to find a historically accurate Guandao for practice, unless you’re willing to fork out the big bucks to have someone make you one by hand. In this video, I talk about converting the Hanwei pudao into a reasonably accurate late-Ming style zhanmadao 斬馬刀, a good stand in for a Guandao. It's a beast of a polearm! For more information on historical Guandao, check out my video “What is a Guandao? Part I: Shape, length, and weight”:    • What is a Guandao? Part I: Shape, Length, ...   Secretly Transmitted Methods of the Guandao is my series for discussing all things Guandao. The Guandao is a weapon that has been used in Chinese martial arts for several centuries. It is a pole weapon with a large crescent blade at one end and a spike at the other end. I examine the Guandao from the perspectives of traditional and historical martial arts, history, performance, and religion. Plugs: Chad Ironmonger on zhanmadao    • SwordLab: Response to Metatron- Chinese lo...      • The Zhan Ma Dao resurrected! LK Chen Review.   https://tplafightingwords.com/2022/03... Skullagrim’s reviews of the Hanwei pudao    • A problem with the Hanwei pudao      • My Opinion of Hanwei (Swords and Polearms)   Scholar Gladiatoria on floppy swords    • The Problem with MASSIVE FLOPPY SWORDS   Texts: Cheng Zi Yi 程子頤. Wubei yaolüe 武備要畧. 1632. Available at Wikimedia commons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... The Guandao form is from juan 8.14-21. Zheng Dayu 鄭大郁. Jing guo xiong lüe經國雄略 (Ambitious Strategies of Statecraft). Longwu tanyang wang jiejue guan she, 1645. Available from the Curiosity Collections of Harvard Library: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/chi... The physical specs of guandao are on seq. 1725 (p.5.7a of 武備攷); the guandao form is on seq. 1684 – 1691 (p.4.1-8 of 武備攷) This text is also available from Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2012402644/ (Guandao is starting Image 1 of Volume 43 https://www.loc.gov/resource/lcnclscd... )