Sunday notes

1. Palm that floating rib!

When doing an inside palm strike after u get the opponent hand away using tang or pak, you wanna strike the rib not straight on but with a upward force, of course that's street stuff so be careful 

2. Watch out for that big swing, elbow ain't gonna save ya

A technique used to counter a consecutive lower straight accompanied with big fat swing to ur head/nose, can be found in the 1st section of 11 hands: zhen sau (震手) + elbow block/hit.  Now of the swing is too big, the technique became very dangerous, while u can be better off if you go in with the elbow to hit in the face of your foe, I still wouldn't use it, would u?? How would u use this technique? 

3. Shaolin vs Hongkong, chisam and yipman

The set up@@@@@@@

HK: grab the hand (same hand) from outside 

Shaolin: huen and grab the wrist(third section of 11 hands) using same hand, the other hand pushes on the elbow

HK: straighten out the trapped arm and strike the thigh (the start of 2nd section of SLT)

4. See white eyebrow video on my YouTube channel will be up soon 

Wing chun is art

When I think of something that would gives me satisfaction I think of food, human interaction, movie, writing, singing, running, wingchun, mid night hiking and driving around town and other myriads if activities. But some comes and goes quick and easy, easy come easy go right? 

Well, among those things that satisfy us (or me, to be precise), there is something in common in some of those activities. Something ubiquitous, something grounded in the human nature, (aside from food of course, man are made of food and lust) and something that transcends the basic needs of human existence.

ART. 

Art doesn't have form, association, loyalty, purpose or desire. And I say this is fortunate. Fortunately art is without a form for we can creat them in myriad ways. Fortunately art is without association for we dot have to pay membership to own them, same with loyalty. Fortunately art is without purpose for it doesn't create conflicts between people of different purposes. Fortunately art is without desire so we can. 

Wingchun, like many activities that give us satisfaction is an art, without form, without association or loyalty, no purpose not desire. It simply is, and our job is to enjoy the aspect of art in wingchun.