Luk Dim Boon Kwun
Literally: six-and-a-half-point staff
Also known as: Luk Dim Boon Gwan
A long hardwood staff of Wing Chun, about 2.4 to 2.7 m long and tapering toward the tip, also the name of the form practised with it.
Quick Facts
ChinaAbout the weapon
Luk dim boon kwun, the "six-and-a-half-point staff", is a long staff of the Wing Chun style and also the name of the form practised with it. When and how the staff entered the style, we have not been able to establish in reliable sources. The staff measures roughly eight feet (about 244 cm) but can reach up to nine feet (about 274 cm). It tapers from a diameter of 1.5 inches (about 3.8 cm) at the base to 3/4 inch (about 1.9 cm) at the tip and is made of hard, fairly heavy wood. In Wing Chun a saying is passed down, kwan mo leung heung, "the staff makes no two sounds". The form differs by lineage: versions of the Yip Man lineage, the Yuen Kay Shan and Sum Nung lineage, and the Weng Chun style are distinguished. In Weng Chun the movements listed are tai (raise), lan (bar), dim (point), kit (deflect), gwot (cut), wun (circle) and lao (receive); tradition traces this version to the teaching of San Kam of the Red Junks, taken up by Fung Siu-Ching.