closing sequence of chum kiu, exaggerated moves to gain access to muscles and joints.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Wing tsun Lesson 52 training section 3 of chum kiu, front kicks
Front kick section. exaggerated movements to access muscles and joints in the legs.
wing tsun Lesson 51 training section 2 of chum kiu, side kicks
Side kick section used to open hips, and to work shifting.
Lesson 50 training section one of chum kiu, turning stance
Exaggerated movements to access muscles and joints in the hips, legs, and ankles. This section works mostly on turning muscles.
Lesson 49 chum kiu - section 4, gum sow section
Final sequence of Chu kiu form. Thsi section also really stretches/opens the hips, as well as starts emphasising a side to side mobility. Think of it as sidesteps for now.
Lesson 48 Chum Kiu - section 3, front kicks
Front kick are actually used a fair amount in Wt, if the opponent uses a kick against you before you can enter to arm range. The kicks of course, have both an offensive and defensive structure built into them, and are mainly used when trying to close with someone who favours kicks, and has the skill and physical ability to enforce the range somewhat.
Lesson 47 Chum kiu - Section two, side kicks
This section works the side kicks. This kick is not an often used movement, but has the benefit of opening the hips to increase shifting and mobility.
Lesson 46 Chum Kiu form - section 1, turning stances
section 1 of chum kiu
This form is about accessing movement/control of legs, specifically the hips, knees, and ankle joints. We add this to the knowledge/skill developed in the first form, Siu nim tao, which focusses upon the arms- shoulder, elbow and wrist.
This form is about accessing movement/control of legs, specifically the hips, knees, and ankle joints. We add this to the knowledge/skill developed in the first form, Siu nim tao, which focusses upon the arms- shoulder, elbow and wrist.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Lesson 45 Student level 3, 7 entries, application theory
In the school in which I train, the previous video demonstrates how the level 3 is usually taught initially. The idea is that this exposes the students to the typical attacks used by a lot of different arts, such as jeet kune do, karate, and so on. It is easier to learn these arm movements that bypass your opponents arms, by practising staying around your critical distance, ie that range where you can just reach your opponent with your arms extended.
But we feel this leaves the student too exposed to a multitude of counter attacks and defensive movements. So the next step is to have the student start closing the gap just after they enter to strike. The hands go first by a small bit, but the body follows. This takes a lot of trust in your abilities at first, but you begin to feel very commfortable getting in really close. Opponents usually feel relatively uncomfortable with this, and often overreact. This allows us to read the pressures etc, and use it to our advantage.
Of course we need to be mobile enough to adjust as necessary, and to yield to greater force if it is there. Sometimes part of your body will be actually moving away or around your opponents strengths, but in general, most of your body should be attacking. You will start to find a lot of openings, if you wrist, elbow, shoulder etc work both independently and yet inter dependant upon each other. There will be times where things feel strange at first, as for example your elbow might be yielding slightly, while your fist and shoulder continue advancing. If you do this type of training religiously, your training partner begins to feel as if he is beig overwhelmed by numbers of attackers, almost like you have multiple arms. In this case the idea is more like stopping a few links of a chain, but it still rotates, revolves, slips, crashes, bumps etc and ends up striking you.
The main point of all this at this level is that you should constantly be trying to enter and take control of your opponents area. In WT we aim to move right in close, using the 'magnetic zone' theory where we try to move in so much that our torso displaces our opponent from where he is standing.
But we feel this leaves the student too exposed to a multitude of counter attacks and defensive movements. So the next step is to have the student start closing the gap just after they enter to strike. The hands go first by a small bit, but the body follows. This takes a lot of trust in your abilities at first, but you begin to feel very commfortable getting in really close. Opponents usually feel relatively uncomfortable with this, and often overreact. This allows us to read the pressures etc, and use it to our advantage.
Of course we need to be mobile enough to adjust as necessary, and to yield to greater force if it is there. Sometimes part of your body will be actually moving away or around your opponents strengths, but in general, most of your body should be attacking. You will start to find a lot of openings, if you wrist, elbow, shoulder etc work both independently and yet inter dependant upon each other. There will be times where things feel strange at first, as for example your elbow might be yielding slightly, while your fist and shoulder continue advancing. If you do this type of training religiously, your training partner begins to feel as if he is beig overwhelmed by numbers of attackers, almost like you have multiple arms. In this case the idea is more like stopping a few links of a chain, but it still rotates, revolves, slips, crashes, bumps etc and ends up striking you.
The main point of all this at this level is that you should constantly be trying to enter and take control of your opponents area. In WT we aim to move right in close, using the 'magnetic zone' theory where we try to move in so much that our torso displaces our opponent from where he is standing.
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