6 to 8 years is not enough to officially teach Chi Sao…
I heard that… And mostly those that have trained with good sifus and masters still don’t have it (because their stance want allow it), it usually takes up to ten years to develop such energies correctly (far as chi sao)…
And let’s face it; you need more then just 7 or 6 years of this type of training (wing chun) because half of those years are just fundamental understandings, but you have some that are teaching these method that are with well known sufus, and their teachers allowing this and letting this to continue to happen (need the money huh)…
If one has not truly mastered at least the first three forms, and have at least 9 to 10 years of training, it would be hard to take their word on what chi sao should really be like, unless they spent a lot of time with an experience teacher daily, and not just becoming a seminar baby…
A see yah, when I see yah, or see yah when I can type of student… When one teaches chi sao to early in there wing chun careers you will know it, because they well get hit a lot by their own students while in training, literally turning themselves and their students into punching bags…
My students only hit me when I let them, and many of them are members here on this forum and would vouch for it… When I say the door is now shut, they cannot hit me at all and I never have to use any offense, I’ll just ‘D’ up until they slow down, then I’ll snatch them right out the frame…
I’m not saying this because I think that I’m the man or something like that… I just know what I know, and learned it from someone that does also…
Take care,
Ali Rahim.