Yin Shou Gun
First group of movements – Chin: dìyī duàn ( 第一段)
1. Assume a rider's stance, resting the stick on your right forearm horizontally, like the shaft of a cart. (Chin:
马步挑棍 mǎbù tiāogùn)
2. Raise your knee and bring the club back (Chin: 提膝拉棍 tíxī lāgùn)
3. Step forward, assume a bow stance, and place the club on your back.
(Chin: 弓左步背棍 gōngbù bēigùn)
4. Step forward and move the stick to the right and assume a rider stance.
(Chinese: 马步右挑棍 mǎbù yòu tiāogùn)
5. Take a step, moving the stick in front of you to the left and assume the rider's stance.
(Chin: 马步左挑棍 mǎbù zuǒ tiāogùn)
6. Taking a bow stance, strike the club in front of you from top to bottom.
(Chinese: 弓步压棍 gōngbù yāgùn)
7. Jump forward while hitting the stick.
(Chin: 跳仆步摔棍 tiào pūbù shuāigùn)
Second group of movements – Chin: dìèr duàn ( 第二段)
8. Turn your head to the left, looking towards the full moon.
(Chin: 回头望月 huítóu wàngyuè)
9. Make a feint step forward with your left leg, covering yourself with the stick before the attack
opponent. (Chin: 左虚步架推棍 zuǒ xūbù jiàtuīgùn)
10. Take a deceptive step forward with your right foot, covering yourself from the attack
opponent (Chin: 右虚步架推棍 yòu xūbù jiàtuīgùn)
11. Perform a quick kick while striking the stick.
(Chin: 弹腿挑棍 tántuǐ tiāogùn)
12. Take quick steps while turning back and swinging the stick so that its
the ends swirled in the air like flowers dancing in the wind.
Hit the stick horizontally to the right, releasing an equal impact force at its end
a weight of one thousand kilograms.
(Chin: 上步倒舞花 / 右横扫千钧 - shàngbù dào wǔhuā / yòu héngsǎo qiānjūn)
13. Sweep the clouds swirling over the mountain peak with a large movement
releasing an impact force equal to the weight of one thousand kilograms.
(Chin: 云顶 左横扫千钧
/ yúndǐng / zuǒ héngsǎo qiānjūn)
14. Turn step by step, as agile as a dancer.
(Chinese: 转身 / 蹲步舞花 zhuǎnshēn / dūnbù wǔhuā)
15. Perform a forward kick, assume a bow stance and fend off your opponent with the stick.
(Chin:后踹腿 / 弓步架棍 hòu chuàituǐ / gōngbù jiàgùn)
Third group of movements - Chin: dìsān duàn (第三段)
16. Make flowery movements with the stick and then turn your head looking towards full moon (Chinese: 缠花 /
回头 望月 chánhuā / huítóu wàngyuè).
17. Jump, then kneel and strike with the stick while kneeling.
(Chin: 跳跪步压棍 tiào guìbù yāgùn)
18. Use your stick to block your opponent's actions from the right and left by removing his weapon
down both sides of the waist (Chin: 右左拦腰棍 yòu zuǒ lányāogùn)
19. Hit the top of Mount Taishan with a stick (Chin: 泰山压顶 Tàishān yādǐng)
仙人指路 xiānrén zhǐlù)
20. The Immortal indicates the point of impact. (Chin:
21. Hit the stick low and then on the chin (Chin: 跳步刺棍 tiàobù cìgùn)
Fourth group of movements - Chin: dìsì duàn (第四段)
22. Swing the club in the opposite direction of the step and assume a "T" stance. (Chinese: 丁步倒棍 dīngbù
dàogùn)
23. Lower the stick, holding it like the shaft of a horse cart.
(Chin: 马步压棍 mǎbù yāgùn)
24. Move one step and hit the club to the right at chin level.
(Chin: 右仆步扫棍 yòu pūbù sǎogùn)
25. Perform a series of forward hops, lowering the stick in a swinging motion sweeping with a broom. (Chin: 左
仆步扫棍 zuǒ pūbù sǎogùn)
26. Stand up, straighten your body and hit the club firmly in your hands.
(Chin: 闭手挺身 bìshǒu tǐngshēn)
27. Horizontal stick strike born from nothingness (Chin: 横空出世 héngkōng chūshì)
28. Make sweeping movements with the stick on the left and right sides of your body, then sit on a mountain
peak in a rider's stance.
(Chinese: 左右撩棍 / 马步坐山 zuǒyòu liāogùn / mǎbù zuò shān)
