Wednesday, November 28, 2012

don't lose sight of forests for the tree - basic skill in wing chun

Yesterday I went on CMAC's fb wall and posted

"I have a window of half/one hour to practice wing chun, anyone interested? i won't hurt you :)
an hour anytime between Now - 6
meet me at Rivera library."


To my surprise, it immediately had an respondent. He has a bigger frame than I am, seems very sturdy* as well. We went to the yard next to the library and practiced for some rounds. Indeed, my guess was right: very sturdy, tends to sink to a horse, which makes an easy target for wingchun practitioner. 
However, we had a good fight and we both learned a lot so let me write something about what I re-discovered to be something I need to work on:

Don't lose sight of forest [and get punched] for the tree

jip sau

The jip sau is a move that combines tok sau and pak sau into one.
look at this video to see what it looks like statically

http://youtu.be/q2kcYZJPsLU?t=2m20s

This movement is introduced to you in the Chum Kiu form and I believe that it is much more effective then that outside double lop sau.  The only difference between the outside double lop sau and the jip sau is that the hand latter grabs the inside wrist.

ok, now for a dynamic application of the jip sau.  Remember, there are other uses for it and this is just one example.

http://youtu.be/ZoU6vJx4Qhw