Wing tsun uses an upright, relatively high, and mobile stance. We have 3 of what we call 'anchors' to give us stability and rooting with this stance/footwork.
Part of structure of our stance/positions is the linking that binds upper and lower sections of the body.
The muscles in the stomach are used to link the upper body. The tension here is not great, more of an awareness of the muscles. They should not be rigid, or slack. A light tension is what is needed. This also has a function of being able to take a relatively solid strike to the torso area. Too rigid muscles transfer the force in more, and too slack allow the fist/foot whatever to penetrate into the body. Trick is to get a 'springy' feel to the muscles.
Knee pressure is mostly achieved by the inside muscles of the upper thigh. The test for this is if the incoming either lifts the toes and puts the weight back onto the heel area. Or if one or both feet get moved out of their placement on the ground.
The test for too much tension is simply being heavy footed in the sense of not shifting quickly and lightly when needed.
The butt muscles have the most tension of the 3 anchors. In actual use the muscles are not kept locked up with tension, but rather more of a 'on demand' need basis. For practise most try to keep these muscles working during form training, specific drill training etc.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Lesson 5, Third section of SNT - Guard hand/sensing arm section
Guard hand is the arm movement back to the body in the video and is referred to as "wu sow".
Fook sow is the extension move and is sometimes called the 'short bridge arm".
Circle hand is called 'Huen sow'.
Fook sow is the extension move and is sometimes called the 'short bridge arm".
Circle hand is called 'Huen sow'.
Lesson 4, second section of form, punch
The straight punch is performed with the elbow in tight to the center.
Lesson 2, getting into the training stance
Getting into the training stance.
Stance is sometimes referred to as IRAS internally rotated abuductor stance. Directions, posture etc are in video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMMws49Lmk4
Stance is sometimes referred to as IRAS internally rotated abuductor stance. Directions, posture etc are in video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMMws49Lmk4
wing tsun Lesson 1 Chain punch
Lesson 1, Chain punch
Wing Tsun's main attack motion is a machine gun like delivery of straight punches referred to as chain punching. The WT punch is very different in use than most martial arts punches, in that it serves as a defensive posture until landing. We punch in various methods, for example we have elbow in or out for various defensive reasons. We have lifting and round punches that superficially resemble uppercuts and hooks. We generate power through various methods that will be introduced later, such as falling step of Jack Dempsey fame, lifting step somewhat similar to a tai chi uproot, and turnning step which resemble paukua or hook type punches. Chain punch serves two purposes at this stage, First it is an exercise for conditioning the shoulders and arms. Secondly and more importantly it introduces wing tsun's concept of 'swarming' the opponent using speed and mulitiple aggressive attacks. It is very important that you try to have a minimum of muscle tension in the delivery or landing of this technique. DONT tense up as you hit. In order to generate lots of power at short range, the limb must be very loose, and the force come from body actions. Right now, you are trying to develop a muscle memory of punching loose, even if for now it feels weak. Think of muscle tension as 'putting on the brakes'. We want our punch to stay loose and feel light on our side. Later we will show you how to make the strike feel extremely heavy on the receiving persons side. This chain punching concept will be gone into in more detail once we start getting into application. For those new to Wing Tsun, and especially those new to punching at all, it is suggested that you do about 75% of your practise punches at this stage in slow motion, or a medium but very relaxed speed for now. Dont worry if the punch feels weak at this stage. Your main focus is strictly on the mechanics of the motion, and then of letting the body adjust to the physical action.
how to punch video
Wing Tsun's main attack motion is a machine gun like delivery of straight punches referred to as chain punching. The WT punch is very different in use than most martial arts punches, in that it serves as a defensive posture until landing. We punch in various methods, for example we have elbow in or out for various defensive reasons. We have lifting and round punches that superficially resemble uppercuts and hooks. We generate power through various methods that will be introduced later, such as falling step of Jack Dempsey fame, lifting step somewhat similar to a tai chi uproot, and turnning step which resemble paukua or hook type punches. Chain punch serves two purposes at this stage, First it is an exercise for conditioning the shoulders and arms. Secondly and more importantly it introduces wing tsun's concept of 'swarming' the opponent using speed and mulitiple aggressive attacks. It is very important that you try to have a minimum of muscle tension in the delivery or landing of this technique. DONT tense up as you hit. In order to generate lots of power at short range, the limb must be very loose, and the force come from body actions. Right now, you are trying to develop a muscle memory of punching loose, even if for now it feels weak. Think of muscle tension as 'putting on the brakes'. We want our punch to stay loose and feel light on our side. Later we will show you how to make the strike feel extremely heavy on the receiving persons side. This chain punching concept will be gone into in more detail once we start getting into application. For those new to Wing Tsun, and especially those new to punching at all, it is suggested that you do about 75% of your practise punches at this stage in slow motion, or a medium but very relaxed speed for now. Dont worry if the punch feels weak at this stage. Your main focus is strictly on the mechanics of the motion, and then of letting the body adjust to the physical action.
how to punch video
wing tsun Introduction and demonstration videos
http://learnwingtsun.blogspot.com/
My name is Gary Kaiser. I live on the west coast of BC, and have been learning Wing Tsun for about 9 years now. For those you who are older, I started this art after age 50, and find it has really helped my physically re: movement, body control, balance, and so on. Its fun to practise, and you dont get injured like some other arts.
Wing Tsun focuses only upon self defense, and is an art that tends to attract detail orientated people. I will be placing about 100 videos online in the year 2011.
They start at a very basic level, and will progress to cover what most people learn in about 3 years of regular classroom, twice a week, commercial wing tsun schools.
Following are some videos that are currently on you tube, showing the type of training we normally practise. The last two of the videos have celebrities' Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan performing wing tsun drills.
Wing Tsun - A defense orientated martial art that follows Bruce Lee's 'attribute' training theory.
1. chi sow, sticking arms video 'superb chi sow
2. training scenarios
3. female expert in WT
4.fast hands in chi sow
5. Bruce Lee( age early 20's) doing entry drills, traditional chi sow( wing tsun's sticking hands training)
6. wooden dummy training ( jackie chan rumble in bronx)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iMYCAICTao&feature=related
My name is Gary Kaiser. I live on the west coast of BC, and have been learning Wing Tsun for about 9 years now. For those you who are older, I started this art after age 50, and find it has really helped my physically re: movement, body control, balance, and so on. Its fun to practise, and you dont get injured like some other arts.
Wing Tsun focuses only upon self defense, and is an art that tends to attract detail orientated people. I will be placing about 100 videos online in the year 2011.
They start at a very basic level, and will progress to cover what most people learn in about 3 years of regular classroom, twice a week, commercial wing tsun schools.
Following are some videos that are currently on you tube, showing the type of training we normally practise. The last two of the videos have celebrities' Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan performing wing tsun drills.
Wing Tsun - A defense orientated martial art that follows Bruce Lee's 'attribute' training theory.
1. chi sow, sticking arms video 'superb chi sow
2. training scenarios
3. female expert in WT
4.fast hands in chi sow
5. Bruce Lee( age early 20's) doing entry drills, traditional chi sow( wing tsun's sticking hands training)
6. wooden dummy training ( jackie chan rumble in bronx)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iMYCAICTao&feature=related
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