Product Details

• Actors: Scott M. Rodell
• Directors: Mark Zimmer
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Great River Taoist Center
• DVD Release Date: October 10, 2002
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001YINXG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #509,035 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Taiji Sword Festival - a worthwhile addition to your library., September 9, 2005

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Linda P. Heenan (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: International Taiji Sword Festival 2002 (DVD)

This DVD was the beginning of a whole new experience for me. Previous enjoyment of swordsmanship led me to explore the style portrayed on this and another of Scott Rodell's DVDs (Yang Family Michuan Taiji Sword Martial Applications). What I found on the DVD was a portrayal of Chinese swordsmanship that led me to put aside other styles to pursue this one alone, and the whole martial arts system backing it up.

Scott Rodell comes across as a dedicated and highly informed martial arts teacher who is genuinely interested in preserving an art. His care for the people who study under him is reflected in the dedication and joy of students interviewed on the DVD.

The Sword Festival DVD opens with a skillful performance of Yang Family Michuan Taiji Jian Form. I have used this on a daily basis as a tool to learn this form. Together with Scott Rodell's book "Chinese Swordsmanship - the Yang Family Tradition", it was the foundation for my memorisation of the form and worth having the DVD for that part alone.

There are also other useful forms on the DVD, such as one for Miao Dao and a Taiji Spear Form. As the interviews proceed, students are training in the background. I found this so irrisistable it encouraged me to organise a similar Sword Camp for my own country. I hope others find this DVD as pleasantly life changing as I have.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Overview of Chinese Swordsmanship, August 25, 2005

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Gregory Wolfson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: International Taiji Sword Festival 2002 (DVD)

While this DVD is not an instructional video it gives a good taste what an intensive week long trainig entails and all the components of traditonal Chinese Swordsmanship. The video opens with the back and side views of the Yang Family Michuan Taiji Jian form; this will undoubted be useful to those learning this form with a teacher of the system.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Show, August 21, 2005

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Lauri Niilisk "Taijiquan Practitioner" (Tartu, Estonia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: International Taiji Sword Festival 2002 (DVD)

I should say I was at this Festival & learned an amazing amount there.

While this video was not created as a instructional video, I think it provides a good view of what training in traditional swordsmanship is like. It also provides the insider view of the training thru interviews with students from Russia, France, USA, & Estonia who were there. Every people I showed this DVD to who were not there enjoyed seeing it. I loaned mine to many.