The wooden dummy is the most valuable piece of equipment a WC practitioner can ever use . It corrects your WC blocking and striking techniques as well as the different types of kicks used in WC . It also makes you think logically if you ' re either doing the techniques the right way or wrong way . But the dummy corrects your Wc techniques . If your arms and hands are well conditioned there is a possibility that you can break the wooden dummy ' s arm . But it ' ll be good if you can break the opponents arm , instead of the dummys' arm . Then that way you don ' t need to spend another 100 or 150.00 to replace the dummy ' arm that you broke . Even if the the wooden dummy is rooted to the ground with wooden parts , you can test out you bodys' strength , by trying to push the wooden dummy , forward .Originally Posted by Yoshiyahu
In southern style of kung fu , they talk about horse stance training or moving around using your stances . In WC , we use the crane stance and moving around using WC footwork . Southern style of kung fu , the power comes from the ground goes into your foot and circulates throughout your entire body . So in WC , as long as you ' re training on the dummy or practicing chi sao , but moving around in your WC stances or just standing in the WC stance , you can condition your body . Because , in styles like Hung Gar , Choy li fut , these 2 styles also train on their own wooden dummy , as well as practicing on their horse stance and footwork of their styles and get stronger . And the WC Sil Lum Tao form is our internal form . You can also do taiji and still get the same benefits . Sifu Hawkins Cheung does taiji and WC and also trains on the wooden dummy too .
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