Why don't we all work together and create an "Encyclopedia of Martial Arts" (Jin Yong version --no Gu Long or anyone else) aka martial art skills database. We won't go too indepth into each skills, since that will take forever. For starter, we can list all the "famous" skills first, then later we can go on to the less common skills. Please use this format.
Basic format:
Chinese name: (in pinyin, preferably Mandarin)
Viet name: (so Viet people can relate when watching dub version )
English name: (a translated version of the pinyin)
Type: Offensive, Defensive, Internal Energy, Evasion, etc.
Description: (several sentences)
Practiced by: (name of people who used the skills in Jin Yong world)
Note:
-You don't have to fill in all the information if you don't know
-All members, please help fill in the missing/wrong info if you know. Or if you know a better description, feel free to say it out, I'll edit as needed.
-Please help make this database grow larger and successful.
-When we reach a long list, I'll make a .txt or webpage or something.
Useful link for name translation:
http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=16452
http://www.geocities.com/jyheroes/nametranslation.html
Best skills of each type: http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthread.php?p=542986
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Version 1.23 - Last updated 08-22-06
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Chinese name: 6 Mai Shen Jian
Viet name: Lục Mạch Thần Kiếm
English name: 6 Meridians Sword
Type: Offensive
Description: There are 12 channels (meridians) in the human body, 6 Yin, and 6 Yang. 6 extend through the fingers, and 6 through the toes. 6 Mai Shen Jian made use of the 6 that extend from the fingers to extend their sword qi. 6 Mai Shen Jian maintains a balance between yin and yang energies. Furthermore, the 12 main energy meridians are “paired”, meaning each one is mirrored on the other side of the body in a symmetric balance. It means that all 10 fingers of the practitioner are used, giving him/her the ability to wield 12 swords simultaneously.
Practiced by: Duan Yu, Six monks of the Celestial Dragon Temple
Chinese name: 9 Yang Shen Gong
Viet name: Cửu Dương Thần Cong
English name:
Type: Internal Energy
Description: 9 Yang Shen Gong is an internal energy cultivations technique. It provides one with strength, stamina, speed, internal energy, etc. Basically it encompasses everything provided by an internal energy technique.
Practiced by: Zhang Wuji
Chinese name: 9 Yin Bai Gu Zhao
Viet name: Cửu Âm Bạch Cốt Trảo
English name: 9 Yin White Bone Claws
Type: Offensive
Description: Part of 9 Yin Zhen Jing.
Practiced by: Mei Chaofeng, Yang Kang, Zhou Zhiro
Chinese name: 9 Yin Zhen Jing
Viet name: Cửu Âm Chân Kinh
English name: 9 Yin Manual
Type: Offensive & Internal Energy
Description: Created by Huang Shang. The first half of the 9YZJ is all about inner strength training, but in the second half of 9YZJ, kung fu’s which can be quickly acquired without inner strength appeared ("9 Yin White Bone Claw" and "Heart Destroying Palm").
Practiced by: Mei Chaofeng, Chen Xuan Feng, Zhou BoTong, Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Hong 7 Gong, Yang Guo, Xiao Long Nu
Chinese name: An Ran Xiao Hun Zhang
Viet name: Âm Dương Tiêu Hồn Chưởng
English name: Melancholic Sad Palms
Type: Offensive
Description: 16 years of sadness, longing for Xiao Long Nu to return, accumulate over time as Yang Guo invented this skill. This skill has 17 stances. Relies on the internal energy. The power is enhance when YG is depressed or sad
Practiced by: Yang Guo
Chinese name: Bei Ming Shen Gong
Viet name: Bách Minh Thần Cong
English name:
Type: Offensive (Absorbing)
Description: Xiao Yao Sect skill.
Practiced by: Duan Yu
Chinese name: Bi Xie Jian Fa
Viet name: Tịch Tà Kiếm Pháp
English name: Evil Resisting Arts
Type: Offensive
Description: Known to have 72 styles, and is an extremely quick skill, requires castration. Same as Kui Hua Bao Dian.
Practiced by: Lin Yuan Tu, Yue Bu Qun, Lin Ping Zhi
Chinese name: Da Gou Bang Fa
Viet name: Đả Cẩu Côn Pháp
English name: Dog-beating Stick Technique
Type: Offensive
Description:
Practiced by: Hong 7 Gong, Huang Rong, Yang Guo, and many other Beggar Clan leaders
Chinese name: Dugu 9 Jian
Viet name: Độc Cô Cửu Kiếm
English name: Dugu 9 Swords
Type: Fully Offensive
Description: “Dugu Nine Swords” contains nine forms to defeat or overcome any types of attack. It based on the principle of "no stances bests any stance" because one cannot predict (and counter correspondingly) a move which does not have a stance. Although each move was just one stance, it had endless variations. The more one learns, the more powerful it becomes when one comprehended the connections between each stance. Once the essence of the sword techniques is understood, it can be used in endless ways, hence the idea of no stance as a stance. Thus during combat, the more these stances are forgotten, the less restricted the practitioner becomes by the original stances.
Practiced by: Dugu Qiubai, Feng Qingyang, Linghu Chong
Chinese name: Ha Ma Gong
Viet name: Ha Ma Cong
English name: Toad Stance
Type: Offensive
Description:
Practiced by: Ouyang Feng, Yang Guo
Chinese name: Hong/Xiang Long 18 Zhang
Viet name: Hàn/Giáng Long Thập Bát Chưởng
English name: 18 Dragon-Subduing Palms
Type: Offensive
Description: The user gathers internal energy and unleashes the power into their palms. It is known to be an extremely domineering force, so users must overwhelm their opponents with XL18Z. The hardest part is to be able to be strong while still leaving leeway.
Practiced by: Xiao Feng, Hong 7 Gong, Guo Jing
Chinese name: Hua Gong Da Fa
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Chinese name: Kui Hua Bao Dian
Viet name: Huyền Hoa Bảo Điển
English name: Sunflower Manual
Type: Offensive
Description: Same as Bi Xie Jian Fa. Extremely fast.
Practiced by: DongFang Bu Bai
Chinese name: Ling Bu Wai Bo
Viet name: Lăng Ba Di Bộ
English name: Treading Waves Light Steps
Type: Evasion
Description: Xiao Yao Sect skill.
Practiced by: Duan Yu
Chinese name: Qian Kun Da Nuo Yi
Viet name: Càn Khôn Đại Na Di
English name: Heaven-Earth Reversal
Type: Offensive & Defensive
Description: Telekinetic energy manipulation form which is the key martial heritage of successive Ming Cult leaders. Has seven levels of proficiency. Typical combat applications: manipulating the moves of opponents (e.g. redirecting their attacks against each other); absorbing & storing energy from opponents' attacks (e.g. so as to re-employ them in the user's own attacks); 'visualising' opponents' energy usage (e.g. to help replicate their styles). Non-combat applications: Zhang Wuji somehow used it to rescue people jumping off a burning building (HSDS Chapter 27). Mechanics are mysterious, but according to Yang Xiao (HSDS Chapter 19), it "transposes the hard & the soft, and the universe's two energies - Yin & Yang."
Practiced by: Zhang Wuji, Yang Xiao, other Ming cult's leaders (e.g. Yang Dingtian)
Chinese name: Qin Long Gong
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Practiced by: Xiao Feng
Chinese name: Shao lin 72 Jue Ji
Viet name: Bảy Mươi Hai Tuyệt Kỹ Thiếu Lâm
English name: 72 Supreme Arts of Shaolin
Type: Offensive
Description: Shaolin 72 Arts are 72 individual arts of their own, each with their own unique skill behind it. You cannot say, for example, the WeiTuo Staff or the Da Li Jin Gang Fist are different stances of the same skill, because for one thing, you cannot practice all 72 arts (actually with godly exceptions like Sweeper Monk). Each skill requires different stances that might clash with each other if you combine them together. They are no complement of each other's martial arts.
Practiced by: Jiu Mozhi, (more?)
Chinese name: Shi Zi Hou
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English name: Lion's Roar
Type: Offensive
Description:
Practiced by: Xie Xun
Chinese name: Tai Chi Chuan
Viet name: Thái Cựu Quyền
English name: Taiji Fist
Type: Offensive
Description: The movements have been so simplified and sophisticated that just one technique can be used infinitely. Taiji doesn't require high inner power.
Practiced by: Zhang 3 Feng, Zhang Wuji
Chinese name: Tai Chi Jian
Viet name: Thái Cực Kiếm
English name: Taiji Sword
Type: Offensive
Description: The movements have been so simplified and sophisticated that just one technique can be used infinitely. Taiji doesn't require high inner power. This arts shared the same principle as Dugu Qiubai’s DG9J, the way of "overcoming the sword without a sword"… the form is nowhere to be found, but the principles remain the same.
Practiced by: Zhang 3 Feng, Zhang Wuji, Priest Chong Xu
Chinese name: Tan Zhi Shen Tong
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English name: Divine Flicking Fingers
Type: Offensive
Description:
Practiced by: Huang Yaoshi, Cheng Ying, Yang Guo, Xie Yan Ke
Chinese name: Tao Hua Luoying Zhang
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English name: Peach Blossom Luoying Palm
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Practiced by: Huang Yaoshi
Chinese name: Xian Tian Gong
Viet name: Tiên Thiên Cong
English name: Pre-Heaven Arts
Type: Offensive/Healing
Description:
Practiced by: Reverend Yideng, Wang Chong Yang
Chinese name: Xiao Wu Xiang Gon
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Practiced by: Jiu Mo Zhi
Chinese name: Xi Xing Da Fa
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English name: Star Absorbing Technique
Type: Offensive (Absorbing)
Description:
Practiced by: Ren Wo Xing, Linghu Chong
Chinese name: Xuan Tie Jian Fa
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English name: Heavy Ironsword
Type: Offensive
Description: A formless sword stage that is believed to be advanced than DG9J. Internal energy has reach very high.
Practiced by: Yang Guo
Chinese name: Yi Jin Jing
Viet name: Dịch Cân Kinh
English name:
Type: Internal Energy
Description: Yi Jin Jing is an internal energy cultivations technique.
Practiced by: Shaolin abbots, You Tan Zhi, Jiu Mo Zhi, Linghu Chong
Chinese name: Yi Yang Zhi
Viet name: Nhất Dương Chỉ
English name: Solitary Yang Finger
Type: Offensive
Description: Combat applications: The finger unleashes a luxuriant yang based force, soft yet unyielding. Non-combat applications: Excellent at hitting acupoints, when used, it's difficult for anybody else to unblock the sealed acupoint. Also, it can heal a person, however, to the expense of the practisioner's energy.
Practiced by: Reverend Yideng, Duan's of Dali, Murong Fu
Chinese name: Yu Nui Xing Jing
Viet name: Ngọc Nữ Tâm Kinh
English name: Jade Maiden Arts
Type: Offensive (not fully)
Description: Yu Nu Jian Fa is a swordplay from this. Yu Nui Xing Jing is a set of skills comprising of Ancient Tomb's stronger skills. The Yu Nu Jian Fa is a swordplay that is feminine and ladylike, however, in the hands of a guy it can change into a suave and handsome swordplay. This swordplay can be used to counter every single move of QuanZhen sect swordplay.
The uppermost level of Yu Nv Jian Fa would be the Jade Maiden Pure Heart Swordplay. This swordplay require lovers to perform, one using Quanzhen swordplay, the other using Jade Maiden swordplay. As lovers, the fighters will be spiritually connected, fighting as one person in two beings, anticipating each other's movements. Fighters must indulge themselves in the feeling of love, for the key here is not to protect their own lives, but to ensure the other lives, with two people complementing each other swordplay with a strong bond allowing them access to each other feelings and thoughts, this swordplay is a force to reckon with. However, this set of swordplay is not fully offensive, it does not go out to kill, but can weaken the enemy no matter how strong he/she is.
Practiced by: Xiao Long Nu, Yang Guo
Chinese name: Yu Nu Jian Fa (Huashan version from SPW)
Viet name: Ngọc Nữ Kiếm Pháp
English name: Jade Maiden Swordplay
Type: Offensive
Description: The Huashan version of this is different from the ROCH version. Huashan version requires learners to dish out very quick sword stances, the key to overcoming your opponent's force is its nifty moves.
Practiced by: Yue Ling San, Ning Zhongze (Yue Buqun's wife)
Chinese name: Yu Xiao Jian Fa
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English name: Jade Flute Swordplay
Type: Offensive
Description: Its varying strokes are aiming for opponent's acupoints. When used together with the Divine Flick (Dan Zhi Shen Tong), both martial arts can complement each other very well, increasing the effectiveness of the swordplay.
Practiced by: Huang Yaoshi, Cheng Ying, Yang Guo
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English name: Left/Right Hand Technique
Type: Offensive
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Practiced by: Zhou Bo Tong, Guo Jing, Xiao Long Nu
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English name: Netting Heaven and Earth Palm
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Description: A skill of Ancient Tomb.
Practiced by: Xiao Long Nu, Yang Guo
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Viet name: Hàn Băng Chân Khí
English name: Icy Internal Energy Palm
Type: Offensive
Description: The user accumulate polar ice energy for over a decade and transferred all that energy into his index finger. He defied the danger of losing a lot of his internal strength and forced it towards the enemy by pouring it through the acupoint of his opponent. Zuo Lengchan's polar ice energy is similar to the Boreal Finger of Plum Manor's Heibai Zi, both were extreme yin and cold martial arts. However, Zuo Lengchan's internal energy was a lot deeper. In a few moments, the enemy will be frozen solid.
Practiced by: Zuo Lengchan
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English name: Divine Art of Violet Twilight
Type: Offensive
Description: HuaShan's Qi branch special skill.
Practiced by: Yue Su, Yue Bu Qun
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English name: Iron Sand Palm
Type: Offensive
Description:
Practiced by: Zhan Fei
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English name: Big Dipper Formation
Type: Offensive
Description: Quanzhen sect skill.
Practiced by: The Seven Disciples of Quanzhen
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English name: Art of the Shifting Stars
Type: Offensive
Description: A technique that copies and redirects the enemy skills.
Practiced by: Murong Bo, Murong Fu
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English name: Xuanming Divine Palms
Type: Offensive
Description:
Practiced by: Xuanming Elders
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Credits (people that contributed to the list) : Me (lonelyassassin), Pacifian, owbjhx, treezie, Ardor, K2Grey, Whsie, Swordwiz, .DotPoint., Fearless
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