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A Day in a life of Wing Chun thinking?
Keys
1. Stance - if wrong no attack or defence
2. Center - if wrong presents too many holes
3. Relaxed Feeling - if wrong cannot hit powerfully or sense intent. Chi
sau feel.
4. Rotation to neutralize - no play in arms, rotate to new position.
5. Economy - don't move too much.
6. Position - if wrong cannot neutralize or hit powerfully
It seems a lot of people know all the forms, all the sayings, Chi sau,
many drills, how to defend against most things in theory but:
Not the same as Ken , Emin, Yip Man, Many Wing Chun teachers could not
convince others to learn Wing Chun yet they know all the stuff. Emin can
fight like the devil but....some people say it's not Wing Chun? Or that he
uses too much force? But he
does all the stuff anyone else does except more realistically? His Wing
Chun theory doesn't seem to have the same depth as Ken's. But if he can
function with crude Wing Chun and others who criticize him can't achieve
the same then what?
Then some people say, well his approach cannot work for me because he
is tall, strong muscular and trains 7 hours a day. So what's missing?
Details,
Abandoning hand - detail in how to neutralize. Where does that come from?
No force against force. So it follows guideline. Uses a movement from the
Siu Lim Tao so that's good too. If timing is off, get hit. If something
else is off gets uprooted. If something else is wrong deflect but can't
deliver any decent counterforce. Could this have been thought out? - stay
with the force, let go completely, rotate (yourself or it).
Sometimes seem to be in position but stuff gets in. Sometimes seem relaxed
but stuff gets in.
Siu Lim Tao assumes knowledge of the whole system then this basis
(foundation was thought of). Should really describe the essence from which
all those forms come.
Ken said if they have this, then we can start to talk about Wing Chun.
Have what?
Elbow jam from Nanaimo - catch timing early and the Fook sau does not let
it in. Catch it late and the solutions are not as nice.
Integrated hands with the body. Integrated hands with each other.
Integrated hands with the opponent's. In harmony with the opponent -
Uyeshiba Aikido. Are we a micro Aikido?
Kicks - only so many Wing Chun possibilities because we restrict ourselves
- center, jamb, kick support, kick weapon, evade (don't be there), kick
first. Rush in according to timing.
Why are there limits to strength? Depends on what the strong guy does.
What should the strong guy do for strategy?
Wu sau - why fingers up? Sense center changes if the fingers are up and
that makes the Lap sau change work otherwise the Wu sau can't change to
Bong sau easily.
Why are the knees in? Why is the head up? Why is the first part performed
slowly? Are we connected to the Qigong idea or not? So what's wrong with
Emin's approach? Why should Leung Ting be able to get him? In what kind of
fight or game?
Coordinate forces together where force is stance, knowledge, experience,
position, feeling ,etc. etc.
Third form shows weakness of system, countering, energy to finger tips,
quick rotation power, body as a whip. What is the proof of what it is.
What have we seen - Ken shows, penetrating fingers, searching to recover,
slow turn to recover and shock with rotation, Gan not to chop sideways
but down and forward, elbow to recover, bend down and back to recover,
circle needs timing to sweep - just when the guy steps. If SLT and CK not
there you cannot catch the sweep timing.
Stance, arm position too high, too close, too far out, too soft, too hard,
wrong change, change to early or too late, catch the energy at the right
time the right part of the cycle. But multiple solutions - early timing
disrupt,
Sense energy startup.
MY approach is mathematical because of my background. In mathematics we
start with axioms and then prove in a logical step by step way. In math we
all know math but who can use it to solve problems? In Wing Chun we all
know the forms the sayings but who can deliver the ideas?
Is energy to the finger tips the same as the snap of a whip. The snap of a
whip delivers energy to the whip tip. Energy to the finger tips sounds too
mystical.
Chum Kiu introduces turning and stepping. This points out a weakness in
the first form that it needs these things. It needs it why because the guy
can back up or flank. By showing the second form it exposes a weakness.
But the idea of turning is already contained in the first form. The idea
of stepping forward is already in the first form. The idea of bridging is
already in the first form. But now we need the legs. The Chum Kiu form
also adds power from turning and from stepping and emphasizes the body as
one unit.
The Biu Jee form introduces what? It introduces the circling foot, the
poke, the elbow, the bending down the turn and recover. What weakness does
it point out? It was called thrusting fingers. Pointing to the target.
Recovery, Emergency. Attacking form. How has this form helped in the
fight.
What does integration really mean? Ken seems to be integrated in his use
of forms. Others seem to apply bits and pieces of the art.
We win based on accurate positions, on little details. So this is the
reason for the first form. An inch out and you are dead. Without the exact
precision then Wing Chun has no advantages over anything else.
It's too bad the different schools of Wing Chun can't just meet and do
a hands on evaluation rather than talk and say this or that person is bad
(having never touched the guy they are talking about).
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