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Injuries: A Drop of Water Will Wear Down a Stone

By srmoody May 11, 2023 Leave a Comment

“A repetitive motion that rubs, tugs, or stretches in a minor way multiplied enough times can do actual damage to muscle tissue, connective tissue, even bone.  Such injuries usually send advance warning of danger ahead.  A pain will typically start small, eventually growing larger and louder until it demands attention.”
Runner’s World Guide to Injury Prevention, Dagny Scott Barrios

As I’ve said elsewhere, Wing Chun can do a job on your shoulders if you are not careful.  Careful means slowly and properly learning alignment and proper technique.  Keep the humerus (upper arm bone) sucked up into the socket.  Don’t let it float around!  Feel the arms always bracing against the body as you move the arms.  The upper body and the lower body should linked at the waist, so you have access to the ground.

This warning about repetitive motion applies to many aspects of training.  If you are doing it wrong and then develop a training habit, doing it wrong, disaster will ensue!  This is why it is crucial as a beginner to ask lots of tiny detailed questions about the movements and forms and make sure you have it right.  Then you can put a bunch of miles on the movement and it will become more and more available in a solid bio-mechanically sound form.  Techniques will just pop out of you!

And then someday, if you train enough, especially Chi Sao / Gwoh Sao – the movements will become something other than a technique.  They will become an expression of your mind.

Filed Under: Wing Chun, Wing Chun Training

Wooden Dummy (aka Muk Yan Jong)

By srmoody May 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

This was how I learned the dummy (and the guy I learned it from).

Train the waist.  Don’t beat the crap out of it – its not for “hardening” the arms (whatever that means).  Chase center.  Develop structure.  Move as one.  Develop your angled approach.  This will tighten up in Chi Sao/Gwoh Sao.  Tighter and tighter angles from a 45 degree change on this stationary training tool until its just a few percent – so you can make yourself correct and make them wrong, as Sifu Lam says.

Filed Under: Wing Chun Training

Sifu Wang Zhi Peng Ving Tsun: Blending Hits, Locks, Kicks, and Throws

By srmoody April 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

Wang Zhi Peng is a Wong Shun Leung-influenced  teacher with a school in Mainland China.

This fluid changing is one of the things that distinguishes Wong Shun Leung’s approach to Wing Chun from the other lineages, especially as developed by Gary Lam. The integration of pushing, pulling, kicking, Po Pai, trips, and hitting adds the necessary dimensionality and surprise to the system. You can see it in the demo from Karen Armstrong in an earlier post. Her opponent pulls her and she steps into it and throws up a Lan Sao. Another response to that pull is a shoulder check. That can become a kick or a pull. It all depends on what the opponent and the moment gives you in terms of opportunities.

Most of the stuff in this demo is in the WSL system, but Wang Zhi Peng is definitely playing with some San Shou and some other system – all the stuff after the demo with the belt.

Cool.

Filed Under: Wing Chun Training

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