Bay Point California 12/03/2016 7 Star pose with varying clothing and weapons
We wanted to test how visible for a judge grading individual movements the various weapons would be with different combinations and colors of clothing. For example, the Pi Shas in particular, and silks in general, tend to obscure the exact movement of knees and elbows, while the padded batons (black) tend to disappear briefly against dark clothing. Too cold and windy to film outdoors - usually indoor lighting adds a slight yellow tinge. When there is a reddish tinge to my face that is NOT due to a reflection off the clothing it was NEVER makeup, but may have been me getting cooked by the lights. All the videos are on YouTube. They are very short (3 or 4 seconds) and usually show a double low cut or strike from the famed Seven Stars pose and a return.  Some random still shots are included in the link at the bottom.
All Pi Shas (also known as manteau in French or shawls) were custom-made for us by the very fine people at Chinese Clothing Online (www.chineseclothingonline.com) 

Clothing	Weapon
Yellow Black Robe	Eagle Kwan Dao
White and Red Pi Sha, White and Red silks	Swords
White and Red Pi Sha, White and Red silks	sabers
White and Red Pi Sha, White and Red silks	red graphite staff
White and Red Pi Sha, White and Red silks	padded batons
White and Red Pi Sha, White and Red silks	light batons
White and Red Pi Sha, White and Red silks	black red batons
Blue and Yellow Pi Sha, White silks, YELLOW shoes	Eagle Kwan Dao
Blue and Yellow Pi Sha, White silks, Blue shoes	Eagle Kwan Dao
Blue and Yellow Pi Sha, White silks, Blue shoes	red graphite staff
Blue and Yellow Pi Sha, White silks, Blue shoes	padded batons
Blue and Yellow Pi Sha, White silks, Blue shoes	light batons
Blue and Yellow Pi Sha, White silks, Blue shoes	black red batons
Black cottons with blue trim, blue pants	sabers
Black cottons with blue trim, blue pants	padded batons
Black cottons with blue trim, blue pants	light batons

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