Sword Dance - Realm of Light

[@mattrR678]

@MsCoffeeGoddess it's called a jian, which is a Chinese one hand double bladed sword. Modern jians are made with thin blades so they bend like that, which looks good for competition.

[@Applejack70]

I never tire of seeing this dance, it's so beautiful but simple in its style. When the dancer gives supplication at the end always feel like joining her.

[@jedone11]

To make something as dreadful as swordplay look so beautiful is amazing!! I have much respect for Asian martial arts

[@SunWize]

Nicely done video with special effects. Good sword dancing and a good story line. She slays the dragon and returns the kingdom to the light.

[@jinfaye]

i think what this video shows is that martial art's true purpose is to show the practitionner a way inside. A path to light.

[@Flickchaser]

Beautiful. Well done-from flashing sword to contemplative peace-with grace and form all the way through.

[@ntdtv]

This production was inspired by a dance called Nine Swords at the 2006 NTDTV Chinese New Year Global Gala at Radio City Music Hall in New York. I recently posted the video of the dance in my channel.

[@bogdancomm]

omg... it's so beautiful ! I never thought someone could get so much beauty from a death tool: like the sword...

[@babylungsss]

bookmarking this. after 5 years, still love her moves.

[@ntdtv]

thanks!

[@tomhughes5123]

Woow makes that ninja samurai stuff look like childs play , could watch these for hours , awesome

[@Shindai]

No dragons were harmed in the making of this video... lol. Thanks for the title of the song, will trot over and nick it now :)

[@LairoTaiyoukai]

Wushu with a Jian. Jian is a double-edged sword, incredibly thin and incredibly sharp. I had one go through my shoulder once... that was a long ride to the hospital.

[@ntdtv]

sorry the name is "shan_he.mp3" The english title of the song is "Mountains and Rivers" I will try to find it on there and send you a message with the link.

[@ch3n.]

wow, beautiful dress...great performance..played so well...wish to learn....

[@warmsteel]

Chinese swordart. That´s cool! Myself, I´ve been training Korean Swordart for two years now.

[@uclampham2799]

Thank you for making such a wonderful video.

[@bengb33]

Inspiring. Really great. Would like to see more. I whole movie or TV show with characters and scenes like this. Is thier such a thing?

[@Digimastertwo]

beautyfull symbolism. The red dragon carrying the hammer and sicle representing the corrupt chinese comunisme destroyed by one of the oldest and most beautyfull chinese art forms.

[@Flickchaser]

Some serious sword acrobatics are in "55 Days at Peking" Part 4 from 7:35-8:45 if it,s still here on YT. Professional level.

[@5327indarkness]

wow!!!!! I love it!!! it's so pretty,and the sword dance was amazing!! ♥.♥

[@wolfdemonmaiden]

she is graceful and the sword strikes fast adn swift it was beautiful

[@Azybee]

wow! that was a beautiful dance! i was sorried she was gunna cut her dress :S lol

[@cinder123208]

Wow this really puts me at calm

[@Shindai]

Is there anything more beautiful than a graceful woman doing martial arts? I love the music too, is there anywhere I can get the mp3?

[@Manonthe3up]

Her attack sharply rose!

[@Shenlong429]

Wow this is really awesome!!

[@leonidas14]

Great i would like to have a teacher like she to teach me that. Very nice post. thank´s for sharing ( )

[@anaelyssa]

Very cool. Some of the poses remind me of the comic Id.

[@sarena93]

thats sooooo cool(I am obsessed with swords)

[@MatthewBowman]

@FelisKHAR00 It's ceremonial, but it's good quality. I doubt it's sharpened, but sometimes they are. The floppy nature of the sword is intentional. Swords that don't bend under sudden pressure (as in combat) break, and you don't want that to happen. A *really* good sword (rapier, scimitar, and a short, light jian like this) will bend at right angles and still snap back to true, though it's usually not seen in movies today (since such swords are works of art, too expensive for props).

[@ntdtv]

this song was composed by a Falun Dafa practitioner and posted on the website pureinsight dot org in the music section

[@cinder123208]

wow breathtaking!!!!

[@MimiNL]

i love this video. saw it 5 years ago. love the moves ^^

[@Octantls]

Thumbs up if you think the lady is a great swords-woman!

[@goverlord]

Very well done.

[@niwriter]

It is a sword for competition and shows. It curves itself depending on the movement so that is makes noise. The noise you do shows the strengh you use so, the more noise you do, the better you are. The girl has an incredible tecnique!!! It's a beatiful video to watch, it seams like she is some sort of sword godness with all that light about her!!! But I don't se why she had to kill the dragon in the end! =(

[@Catseye713]

Oh, Lady and Lord, I _looooove_ watching skilled swordswomen.

[@GmodCaboose56]

Simply magnificent :')

[@unique1028]

wow.. very well done...

[@CoachMike87]

Beautiful 5/5

[@joekelly9369]

awesome . + history love this

[@Gladddy]

just amazing

[@huuthang859]

very good

[@Romperjet]

Wow, I like her moves.

[@RelativelyBest]

"Jian" basically means "sword" in Chinese, and refers to pretty much all straight double-edged sword. (Same way "dao" is virtually anything with a single edge made for cutting.) Can also occasionally be called a "gim." I don't think there's a difference between a jian and a gim, though.

[@Digatone]

Love the sword dance and chinese dragon

[@starfishye]

The music is also great. can anyone tell me the title of the music? thanks.

[@jonnynice8366]

Very nice video :)

[@xoen6]

..what a CHANNEL! Oo

[@scalvarese1]

So enriching!

[@Joyride37]

She's got some awesome skills. It's kind of funny, here I was looking for different 'sword dances' expecting that the videos would be mostly of guys. Except all the videos I've seen so far are women doing the dances. It's nice to see girls that can kick butt, and honestly, a woman who can use a sword is alot more threatening to me than a guy. Their slighter bodies being more flexible, so one wrong move and *shrrfff" there goes the "family jewels."

[@DragonMaster785]

Awesome dance but, how in the world did she get down?:o

[@CLFsur]

Hermoso video!!!

[@BuffyLinYuna]

amazing

[@theninjewguy]

That was tai'chi quan and the sword is a double edged blade.

[@NicoleBee100]

Only one big mistake - no real Chinese video would ever show a warrior killing a dragon. This woman trained for real. Why do silly video people show her killing a dragon?

[@gwang3103]

There HAVE been tales of warriors slaying dragons in Chinese mythology. One example is Zhou Chu (周處) from the ancient anthology 'Shi Shuo Xinyu' (世説新語).

[@xiaolaoshu520]

hanfu dress? lovely

[@Ilmwaqalb]

what kind of sword is this? i do sword belly dance and i would love to incoporate something like this but i know my sword is too heavy for this.

[@SheenaMalfoy]

@FelisKHAR00 See how the sword is whipping around? Something that fragile could never be used for combat. It's purely for show.

[@Henriquez1988]

awesome, I love wudan =D ps anybody knows what is the music?

[@windycloud23]

Ask any chinese, they'll tell you this is so 1960's. Sword is real it's just a very thin blade so it's light.

[@kyoko12989]

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@markohu]

this sword is a modern wushu sword

[@ivanmoen9982]

Like it, too bad quality isn't that good though :(

[@gwang3103]

Fully agree. A HD version of this really should have been uploaded instead.

[@tmgoral]

piękny taniec

[@icysnowbubble]

that is called a darn kim sword its a very thin flexible blade

[@lonelydeath09]

will someone please tell me the costume she was wearing is called? I would appreciate it!

[@MatthewBowman]

@SheenaMalfoy Don't be fooled by the floppy appearance. I've used a shorter (about three foot) version. They're designed to be flexible. I seriously don't meant to be insulting, but you should probably look up sword design. You seem to be too used to the idea of the "medieval broadsword" (often presented in movies like it were an edged steel baseball bat, which is in and of itself not how it really was). Real blades are designed to bend -- even German broadswords. If it doesn't bend, it breaks.

[@cincin75ytb]

This is not Wushu, just a kind of China traditional dance. There are some kinds of Wushu form or pose in it, but it can not be used to fight, that is much different to Wushu.

[@BURNPURPLE121]

@0rionProject Awesome I was about to say that!! xD

[@gulumaci]

She IS a Godess

[@MountainMist-m4u]

righteous

[@Fluteperson01]

这表明我的朋友们的文化以及我不是亚洲，但它是gracful和舞剑相当

[@tnn2000]

anyone know where i can download the song?

[@genovaz]

anyone know the name/composer of the music?

[@DoctorOogway]

@MsCoffeeGoddess it's easier to locate it by google .. Jian "tai chi sword" ..or type tai chi sword in ebay :P

[@tnn2000]

May I have the song for this?

[@bradpara]

WoW

[@chichigong7]

I love jianshu

[@zhuz50]

lol...i wonder how she made the animation...

[@VulpineDemon]

Wushu or Tai Chi (chinese broadsword)

[@ArekLord]

Um hate to say it swords like that could be used in combat.

[@s3ts]

Appealing to the eye, but... what's with the fake sword?

[@shadysheep7738]

batwon tirling

[@Pw_edits_01]

Uffff!

[@RelativelyBest]

Eh, it's not any martial art at all from what I can tell. She's just spinning her sword around a lot, takes some dance steps and throws in some wushu-style poses for good measure. I mean, I do stuff like that for fun, and I don't even know any wushu.

[@iliveatseven11]

i seen a real chinese sword its not as bendy but its bendys says if u can cut threw air and wind u can cut anything oO

[@LordLebu]

true ; the evil Dragon of cummunism must be beaten

[@Rehunauris]

Why not use real sword?

[@DerMalus]

oh noe, she killed the dragon D:

[@danielliauwcien]

@regomn hahahaa yeahhhh wkwkw i play jade dynasty to LOL tier 5 jadeon skill

[@slapleatheru3]

Beautiful![iminent=HJYizlR59l2] 美麗

[@VimalaNowlis]

Difficult to watch.

[@neoshinji18]

looks like lu xueqi lol

[@GSH5909]

중국 돈의 위력이 대단하네

[@Yidenia]

Ok I'm not a fan of the ending. If you're going to spin the camera around, at least make it so the background spins faster than the foreground. If the foreground spins faster it doesn't make any sense. Also the dragon's kinda corny. Fan dance is good enough that you don't need a toy dragon flying around the scene and getting blown up.

[@Troyocorus]

very awesome but its not a dance.

[@aroneTopper]

She's not putting a whole lot of emotion in to it, it takes away from the dance :(

[@huntmatuk]

Very flashy, not martial at all though.