Vietnam
Thousands of years elapsed. Today's Vietnam has undergone several centuries of Chinese occupation, almost a century of French occupation, and numerous wars. Consequently, the hundred Vietnamese Martial Arts schools are filled with Quyen (Katas) of stick, as well as many training systems with this weapon. Vovinam, a modern school founded in Vietnam in 1938, also uses the stick in its program. However, for this latest work on DVD, instead of showing only Vovinam counterattacks, as it's usually done, I have preferred to offer a much more complete work, much closer to traditional training. Indeed, the Vovinam school, in its official program, only proposes the stick form (Tu Tuong Con Phap) and the counterattacks of stick vs. stick (Phan The Con). But, the Vietnamese stick goes much further than these two facets. In addition, many Vovinam practitioners handle the stick with a very poor skill due to the fact that they just learned the whole form and counterattacks, without ever working the bases or handling of the weapon.
“For this latest work on DVD, instead of showing only Vovinam counterattacks, as it's usually done, I have preferred to offer a much more complete work, much closer to traditional training.�