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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

Internal Power of Grandmaster Sam Chin

By srmoody March 9, 2023 Leave a Comment

The things Grandmaster mentions about being in the now reminds me of what I learned from my Wing Chun Sifu Greg LeBlanc.  The awareness needs to be trained so that you are not reacting to something that is already in the past (whatever your conscious mind can detect with your eyes about what the other person is doing) or that is only in your mind (your expectations based on your experience).  You need to train to be fully present.  Everything your mind is telling you is old news.

Filed Under: Wing Chun

The Best Punch is a Counter

By srmoody August 8, 2021 Leave a Comment

“I have already stated that attack is the trump suite in boxing, and have also pointed out that attack does not necessarily mean rushing or charging at or after your opponent. Attack, indeed, commences earlier than hitting. For the ideal punch, or perhaps it would be better to say the best punch, the most effective one, is a good, stiff counter, to a ducked, brushed aside, or otherwise evaded lead.

It is usually best, whenever possible, to “draw” your opponent into a lead before hitting out on your own account. The advantages gained thereby are four in number. In the first place, you have forced your opponent to commit himself to a decided step and can therefore be moderately certain of what he is about to do. Secondly, you have to a very large extent deprived him of the ability to change his position and guard swiftly enough to deal successfully with any offensive you may yourself adopt. Thirdly, by his mere action of hitting out, you will or should secure an opening of sorts, can or should make him present you with a fair target at which to aim. Fourthly, and most important of all, you will have borrowed some very considerable force from him to add to the power of your own “counter” delivery. For the more speedy and the heavier his advance or lunge towards you in the action of punching, the heavier and more painful will be the “dig” with which you meet him on his way.”

The Straight Left and How to Cultivate It, 1910, by Jim Driscoll

Filed Under: Comedy Relief, Wing Chun

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