Re: Technique Choices
Originally posted by tparkerkfo
In wing chun we all are trained to be sensitive, I am *hopefully* safely assuming. Hopefully our sensitivity allows us to flow with what ever technique is needed for the situation. It can be argued that it is wrong to force specific techniques to the situation. However, I think there are often several choices we can implement for any given stimulus, again, depending on sensitivity.
I don't think of it this way. For a given stimulus, there is a best choice which includes foreknowledge of restrictions on the opponent's reaction's.
With all that out of the way, does any one find themselves using specific techniques more so than others?
Yes, if the stimulus from the partner is the same. Unfortunately, most opponents learn from the first mistake and don't tend to repeat a technique right away.
How about limiting certain techniques? How do these hands affect your wing chun? Meaning, do you do anything specific to set up for these favorote techniques? Is there anything wrong with using favorite techniques?
Ah Cheung, Leung Sheung's student in China, is said to have only two hands, pak sau and punch. If you have all the experience and training he has, you can be that efficient. But for most of us, our timing and sensitivity fall short of his standard and so must resort to more complicated strategy.
I myself tend to use a few techniques more so than others. I Use Tok Sau a lot. Often I use it with a grab, that I can't specifically say is a wing chun hand, but it seems to work very well against certain people, and not so well against others.
Tok Sau? Is this the same as Pau Sau? And you use it with a grab? You didn't learn that from Ken. Grabbing always seems a desparation move, not something to train to do.
Pak Sau comes out a lot as does Bong Sau. I feel wu sau has saved my life on many occasions, so I tend to rely on it a bit.
There are three main hands in Wing Chun and variations on the theme. It's not surprising that you'd use the Pak Sau and Bong Sau a lot, is it? On the other hand, we don't even bother to name many of the hands that we use as variations on a theme.
I had a problem several years ago where I would throw out bong sau. Every thing would be met with bong sau. It wasn't pretty.
That would be unlikely to be necessary. Leung Sheung said if you can force me to Bong Sau, then you're doing pretty good, or words to that effect.
So, I decided NOT to use it under almost any occasion, which led to me using it occasionally.
That sounds about right. The hands we use most are the hands we learn in the forms I'd expect. There are others specific to the occasion.
Regards,
John Weiland
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