Originally Posted by
Yum Cha
Its always easy to take a training demonstration and take it apart with a lot of 'ifs' or to move into your own ideas with an 'or'
Check-bridge-strike. I totally get the use of slap/check before the heavy bridge. The vid shows it as a defence, it works just as well in attack, checking the lead hand to prevent the defensive jab as you move in to bridge... Say, the second some knob throws up his classic Gwailo Kuen left lead. The very second, because he crossed the line.....
The check hits the jab as it is coming out, before extension, knocking it off axis/or target, and rotating the body momentum counter to the direction leaded for a good right counter.
Your bridge reaches full extension as or before the jab does, trapping and turning the opponent.
The strike hits on the half beat, before the opponent reacts to the bridge, much less brings the right around.
you can use a light 'attention getter' to the face (to raise his guard) and follow up with something big, or go for gold on the strike.
Ten moves fast, demonstrates his style in a manner other students can learn the exercise. The beginning stuff, for beginners..... He can demonstrate the dynamic at speed, which a student needs to see to understand as they lumber through the learning of the mechanics.
Its a valid technique, sure, not full power, but its just a training vid.
I don't know about you guys, but my biggest challenge these days is learning how to teach, how to preserve the traditional techniques by keeping them effective and self justifying. Lots of stages to put a student through...