Bruce Lee doing SLT and Chi Sau

[gnugear]

I was watching "A Warriors Journey" last night on AMC and saw some brief footage of Bruce doing SLT and a little bit of chi sau.

His SLT looked pretty powerful ... not really what I expected.

During chi sau he was turned to the left ... A LOT! Another surprise because I would have assumed a more squared off position.

[S.Teebas]

During chi sau he was turned to the left ... A LOT! Another surprise because I would have assumed a more squared off position.


Why would you assume he should be more square on? He's a small guy so needs to attack from angles. If he was facing left, its because the other guy probably didn't have much of a structure on that part of his body. Why change your angle of attack if you can get through?

If the guy was smaller; then he should be able to just plow right through him (depending on how much of his body weight he can actually use correctly)

[saulauchung]

Gnugear, was Bruce Lee doing chi-sau with his left hand performing the tarn/bong and right hand fook?

[gnugear]

Originally posted by saulauchung
Gnugear, was Bruce Lee doing chi-sau with his left hand performing the tarn/bong and right hand fook?

hmmm.... hard to remember, but I think the right arm was doing bong sau. So as he did bong sau, he was also rotating his body to the left. His partner looked smaller, so I don't think it was a size issue.

I just ordered the DVD because it was pretty cool seeing all that lost Game of Death footage. I'll take a closer look when it arrives.

[saulauchung]

Thanks for the reply. I could be wrong but I suspect the reason why someone would turn to one side while doing the *square* lok/poon sau was because he/she was unable to keep his elbow in during fook sau. To compensate for this, and to prevent his opponent's tarn sau from a clear open strike, he can unintentionally twist the waist in the same direction to bring the elbow in the centre and preventing an open strike. The elbow out problem is often encountered by people with sizable muscules so that's why I have this suspicion.

I know there is a chi sau drill that employs body shifting, but this is more complicated and doesn't sound like the way he's doing.

If there are ligitamite reasons for this off-squaring, then I'd be very interested to hear it.

SLC

[narjar]

It is possible he was doing the old style chi sao where they do the chi sao on a side angle and pivot from side to side every so often.They do this in Foshan at my Masters Kwoon ,Lun Gai(lon gi).We dont do it much.I didnt see the program so i am only taking a guess.

[Mr Punch]

Gnugear, how was his slt powerful? And was this from the days before he got buff?

[williamsremo]

I have the full film of Bruce doing the SLT. He is quite young, Maybe 18 or 19. He goes through it pretty fast, and in my opinion is kind of sloppy, but it is pretty cool seeing Bruce doing "Pure" Wing Chun.

[tiger_1]

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[gnugear]

Originally posted by Mat
Gnugear, how was his slt powerful? And was this from the days before he got buff?

Maybe powerful wasn't the correct term. It was very snappy ... with a flicking action with the wu sau hand.

We do it pretty slow and smooth, so it's most likely just different from what I'm used to. I saw some footage of Samual Kwok and it looked very similar.

... the chi sau just looked different though, because he was moving forward (or back) while turned to the side.

[yenhoi]

Whats AMC?

How do i get a copy of what your posting about?


Tks.

[gnugear]

Originally posted by yenhoi
Whats AMC?

How do i get a copy of what your posting about?


Tks.

AMC = American Movie Classics. It's a cable station like Bravo.

I looked into it and it's available on video. I just ordered it online, but I'm sure it's also available at Blockbuster ect.

[yuanfen]

Why get the video. Havent there been some sightings of BL and Elvis working out? BL will never die anyway--- what would we do for mag covers?

[gnugear]

Originally posted by yuanfen
Why get the video. Havent there been some sightings of BL and Elvis working out? BL will never die anyway--- what would we do for mag covers?

Look at Jimi Hendrix ... only 3 studio albums released during his lifetime, but over 200 since his death.

... the lost Game of Death footage is cool though!

[yenhoi]

I want the 'lost' footage from game of death. Whats this called so i can go buy it? Where did you order it from the 'net?

[gnugear]

It's called "Bruce Lee - A Warriors Journey"

I got it from DeepDiscountDVD.com for 14.95