This may be slightly off topic here but...
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Originally Posted by
Phil Redmond
Just a response to something in your first video, which I've seen you say on other clips as well concerning the placement of taansau and the WSL method.
First of all, taan is a verb, not a noun. So it is describing an action and not just a structure or static position. The concept is to get on top of your opponent whilst moving in so it moves in a forward arch. WSL described the action as two conflicting villages at the top of neighboring mountains with a valley between. One village shot a cannon straight toward the other and the ball dropped into the valley. The other village aimed their cannon slightly upward and fired in an arch from low to high and the ball came down on the other village and destroyed it.
That is the taansau action. It is not just the position of your hand being up in front of your face or at a lower level. The action will pass through both. It's a verb not a noun. You see WSL's taansau stop up high on the mukyanjong because the arms of the dummy are in a fixed position and cannot move.
Finally, the side gamsau action from Siunimtau is not a block but defense against wrist grabs and arm drags and locks from the side. The video of WSL showing the block is for the one to the front. It's just like the movement at the end of Chamkiu. He shows the application for all three gamsau actions in the same video.
Way to misread an entire post, Wayfaring. :D
I titled the post being off topic here because I was not at all talking about drawing WC blades. And the feuding villages story was not mine, but one told by WSL to describe the action of taansau. Finally, taan is not an English word, so its part of speech actually has to do with Chinese grammar. ;)