wing tsun Lesson 53 training chum kiu section 4, gum sow

closing sequence of chum kiu, exaggerated moves to gain access to muscles and joints.

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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.

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.

Lesson 44 SNT for muscle accessing

This is a method of doing the first form as a method of accessing and developing more muscle movement and power into the techniques. Students should continue practising the form mostly in the basic manner, but can add this as a variation.

Video part one
Section 1 of form and most of section 2




Video part two

i just noticed that part 2 doesnt seem to be viewable by most.. try this link if that is the case..
http://youtu.be/T8wAA1hhPvk

End of section 2, section 3, followed by section 5 (out of order), and half of section 4



Video part 3
second half of section 4 to section 8

Lesson 43, entries 1-7 inclusive

Seven is an arbitrary number to show most common extreme hand/arm reactions of the average person.These reactions are normally triggered even in professionals, but only if the initial attack is strong and aggressive and very close in. The demos are actually shown mostly at a much longer distance than WT tries to use, since it makes it more easy to see clearly what is taking place.

Each of these reactions by our training partner or opponent tell us which way to go and what to do, so that we are not clashing with them. Rather we are attempting to agree and move with their response.

There are unlimited entry patterns in reality. Often called the 'bridges of wing chun' and numbering up to the hundreds or even more, they usualy are variations of a few common patterns.

How much 'force' one uses, and/or how much 'slickness'(mobility,positioning,timing, angles, etc) one uses is simply a reflection of personal skill and style.

Lesson 42, 7th entry

This drill mainly makes use of the initial right arm attack to become a controlling movement. The left arm now attacks on a variety of levels. Movement to your own left front can be added to help control the traning partner, and to move towards his 'blind spot'.

Lesson 41, entries 5 and 6

The fifth entry is to the inside of defenders right block( he is pushing to his right side.
Number 6 entry is to go under a block that lifts too high, ie higher than our throat level.

unfortunatly there is lots of airplane noise on this video, as usual.. we are on the main flight path for local commercial aviation instruction.

Lesson 40, pak sow entry (#4)

This drill starts with the usual attempted outside entry. In this case the defenders guard hand is very strong, and/or rigidly held in place. We use a pak sow aimed through the forearm at our partners center. As this defensive arm may well be too strong to move, we may need to use the third fighting principle,( yield to greater force) and let the pak sow motion move us around slightly to a new trajectory. In essence you will feel your left pak sow hand move a bit to your right side, as your left elbow and body move around a bit to the left. This allows entry in a direct line for your right punch, which has kept pressure up continuously.

Also if you have good structre, and keep your pak sow quick and snappy, this makes up for most any difference in strength, and will move almost all arms in your way. Because the duration of contact is so short, it is very difficult for anyone, no matter how strong relative to you, to keep their arm in place.

Lesson 39, outside entry, right trap, left hit #3

After using the attempted outside entry, your attacking arm( right arm in video) is stopped by training partners right arm. You keep pressing in with your attack, and use the forearm angle to press his defensive arm down and towards him. This allows you to slide your left arm attack along the trapped arm, and into the throat area.

This particular follow up works well against a defending arm that is either not strong, not having any real forwards pressure, or not well out from the defender. If there is forwards pressure, our goal is not to match it, but to press downwards on it so as to avoid direct force on force. Normally a movement of the arm of only an inch or two creates a big enough open area to hit to the throat, while still keeping our own elbow low enough to guard us. Reaching over is to be avoided as this creates space that our opponent could strike up and under our arms to our throat or head area.

Lesson 37 student level 3, inside entry, #1

This level introduces the famous 'entry' drills. There will be 7 basic drills shown for students to practise. There is one 'inside' entry, and one outside, that has about 5 or 6 basic followups to it. These entry drills simulate the most common responses to a basic fist attack. Attempts are usually made to jam the punch, or to push it up, down, away, to the side etc. These responses are mostly instinctive in the majority of people, so the entries allow one to practise controlling the situation to our own benefit. Bruce Lee made these drills famous, and Keith Kernspect refined them over about 8 years, by having hundreds of instructors work on them with tens of thousands of students throughout Europe.

This video introduces the entry through the 'inside' path. All punches and entries start with this attempted punch. The idea shown in the video is to show the two extremes of using either power or mobility to bypass your opponents arms and land your strike. Each person uses their own personal combination of the two. This personal area of strength/movement will have some variety depending upon the situation and the opponent's skills.

Lesson 38, student level 3, outside entry

We force a reaction, or hopefully, an 'over' reaction by driving our right punch to our opponents center. As they push the attacking arm across to our left, their blocking arm is not attacking us, so we flow elour right elbow over their arm, take over on the outside with our left, and enter and strike with our right punch or fax sow(cutting arm).
Occasionally our training partner will press more to our center with his blocking arm, ie he will attack us rather than just block. The closer they are to aiming at our center, the more we have the option to adjust slightly and enter either by the inside, or by the outside entry shown in this video. For learning purposes the training partner should initially press noticeably across as in a blocking motion to the side.

Lesson 36 SNT form, sections 5-8

Here are the sections from 5 to 8 of the form.. Typically student level 2 level should know the entire form. Future videos will show you how to train the form with slightly different emphasis to develop differnt skills. All partner drills and strategy, tactics etc, will always refer back to the form, so this form is called the form of the beginner, but also the form of the master. Of course there are many ways to practise, but it all starts with a standard set of movements. These moves focus mainly on developing awareness and use of the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints for power, distance, angles, positions etc that are used in basic offensive/defensive movements.

Lesson 35 Forearm/elbow attacks

Continuing in the vein of the knee lifts in the last session, we often use the forearms to 'cut' through the torso of our training partner. This movement is very powerful and usually causes the training partner to turn away from us, giving us easy entry from the side or rear positions. Also being closer to our own body, most people can more easily feel the ability to deliver their full weight into this kind of strike. Using knees and elbows, along with grabs, pushes, and pulls, starts to give us the ability to 'maul' our opponent. Basically it boils down to controlling their core, balance, and positons. Part of the controlling comes from being able to access our power in the form of body weight, physical strength, angle and position of delivery, and similar skills.

Lesson 34 WT knee lifts

Main point is to 'walk through' the opponent. Also use of the wedge effect of the angle of the thigh muscle to 'cut through is shown on video. With proper knee pressure( which we refer to as one of our anchors), we are constancly loading the legs for shifts into our opponent. These shifts can be used as strikes, in this case, kneeing the opponent.