Dog beating staff gets me every time

It's a real traditional item of beggar sect in any wuxia style series or novel. It's just been so long since I heard it again cause wuxia ain't that popular like 10 years ago

But is the staff made specially to beat dogs? Why though? The name is just crazy

Most martial arts usually derive themselves from copying something from nature... even yoga has some weird names when translated to English

You can search beggar sect in Wikipedia and it lists down the beating dog technique

The Dog Beating Staff Technique (打狗棒法) has ten stances:

A Fierce Dog Blocks the Path (惡狗攔路)
Whack Two Dogs with a Staff (棒打雙犬)
Oblique Hit on the Dog's Back (斜打狗背)
Flip the Dog Upside-down (撥狗朝天)
Retrieve the Staff from the Mastiff's Jaws (獒口奪仗)
Whack the Dog's Head with a Staff (棒打狗頭)
Reverse Jab the Dog's Bottom (反戳狗臀)
Lift the Mad Dog with the Staff (棒挑癩犬)
Squash the Dog's Back (壓扁狗背)
No Dogs Under Heaven (天下無狗)

Ohh I see...I had no idea it was based on real martial arts. As a simple English speaker with no background in the martial arts though, it's still funny reading the literal translation of the stances (≧∀≦)

Thanks for explaining btw

TY for the explanation! So some dude in ancient China was so not fond of dogs that he created an entire martial art around thrashing them. Got it.

TY for the explanation! So some dude in ancient China was so not fond of dogs that he created an entire martial art around thrashing them. Got it. (⊙…⊙ )

Oh no, it's not some legend or anything, beggar sect is just trope created less than a hundred years ago from a series of novels ( don't quote me on this) it's just so popular that it influenced other authors to put it in their work

Lmao my original thoughts exactly (≧∇≦)