How do you Develop, Cultivate and strengthen the Ging, Jing, Geng???
What do you do? How do you train to amplify it and utilize it?
How do you Develop, Cultivate and strengthen the Ging, Jing, Geng???
What do you do? How do you train to amplify it and utilize it?
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"
Learn to use the elbow to the centerline as your invisible sudden stopping line not your hands, this connects the body weight to the arm ...use a wooden dummy.
That's more or less lineage specific.
My YM WC teacher had me learn it on the dummy, if not done right you bruise the crap out of yourself.
In HFY WC We have a couple of different training sets for it, mostly Jaam Jong and Dip Gwat Gung exercises.
Chris Chan's guys do a lot of Dynamic tension in their SLT.
Some LT guys have talked about learning it through the pole form.
How'd your Sifu tell you to do it?
There are different ways to develop it in my lineage...
But there are exercises with the pole you do...as well as the wooden man. We also have chi kung form in addition to punching on a wall bag and kicking a pole. Also hitting and striking a pole...There are other ways as well!
So yes I agree with Kdell and you when it comes to using a wooden man!
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"
Stomach crunches to strengthen the lower abdomen. It is the center and generation point from which your strength comes. It is only strong if you are strong. SLT is the form where you use the imagination. Not only does it train you how to form and apply each of the techniques in it, but it also trains you to do everything on your center line. When doing it, most people do the second set slowly, but that is not the original concept. It should all be done that way and the use of dynamic tension will train you to focus your energies into the techniques. Later, when all this is well trained into you, the wooden dummy will help you apply these techniques with constant and continuous flow of this same energy.
I watched a video once where several people were lined up and doing Sil Lim. They were doing it so fast that you could not see their hands. They were not doing the techniques properly at all, just shooting right on through them. This was being overseen by a sifu or his assistant, and not a single word was spoken on behalf of proper application.
And the techniques of Wing Chun's forms should not be open for interpretation. That means that it could be interpreted a thousand different ways. It was not meant to be like that. Wing Chun has sound principals and should not be left to that. It should be taught so that each move can be well understood by all. Misinterpretation is what leads to all the different lineages and wierd applications.
Jackie Lee
I disagree to intrepreation...All a sifu can give you is his innovation. If your Sifu is or was a fighter. The techniques he done in WC will be different than the techniques someone in Hong Kong does or someone in Japan does. Because the WC in Japan and Hong Kong is different than it is in Brooklyn or Los Angeles. You will be fighting different people with different strengths and weaknesses. A person who trains MMA wing chun will be different than a person who trains Kyoshukin or Muay Thai. Because he adapts his WC to those he spars with...Some Techniques that work on a boxer wont work on a street fighter with no formal training. A street fighter who has never taking formal training of any sort only has experience from fighting on the streets. So his tactics will be different than someone who has been boxing since he was seven. His timing, skill, techniques, strength, power and speed will be different than trained martial artist. So you need to adapt your fighting to what ever you encounter. There you can modify, innovate or adapt your WC so it works for you...
Also everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. Some of us are extremely fast others are extremely strong while others have a keen sense of accuracy and timing. Depending on your strength and weaknesses your WC will grow into something different than the next man. if something doesn't work for you throw it out. For instance if due to your body structure or skill or even ability certain applications to a technique don't work for you...Either don't use it at all or change the technique so it does work for you!
For instance if your fighting a person who only throws punching as your chest and stomach then your guards should be lower. Because they are trying hurt your organs. Your WC techniques would follow the traditional WC patterns where they blocked or intercepted attacks towards the body. If your attacker is aiming primarily at your face then you need to protect your face and your techniques should be altered.
The Forms are just that. A form or idea. But ideas take a life of their own once a person gets a hold to it.
Story Books are always better than a movie. A movie gives you the exact application written in stone with out room for interpretation or imagination. But reading a book will allow your imagination to fill in the gaps and pictures and images of how something is to be interpretation. A book is merely a form. Your mind does the rest!
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"
Story Books are always better than a movie. A movie gives you the exact application written in stone with out room for interpretation or imagination. But reading a book will allow your imagination to fill in the gaps and pictures and images of how something is to be interpretation. A book is merely a form. Your mind does the rest![/QUOTE]
I think you misunderstand. Concepts and principals are static. When we adhere to them they remain the same. If we alter them they no longer apply. In order for your Wing Chun to work as intended, you must adhere to these concepts and principals. There is no room for interpretation.
Nothing about fighting is the same from one fight to the next. This will change a lot of things, but will not change the principals of application or use. This is where many tend to be making odd interpretations. Books do not often explain the concept or principal behind something, actually leaving it up to the interpretation of the reader, and this is probably why we have so many different Wing Chuns out there.
Jackie Lee
Some of what you said I agree with...AS for basics...the basics is the forms and drills. How you do the drill and forms are basic...but thats not the intrepreation or even application...its a training tool to get you use to shapes and forms of each technique. once you have muscle memory you can apply the techniques and shapes and forms in freestyle situtation as you like...Fighting is not a set pattern. You dont have time to think about doing your techniques exactly as they are done in chum kiu or sil lim tau. You flow with each technique. You apply the technique any way that works for you. There are certain principles you follow of course...But for each situtation there is a change. You dont have time to plan out your attack because the unexpected may happen. You scream or yell at me I punch you. I see your noise as an attack i strike you instantly for being a MAD man. I dont wait for you to pounce on me like some animal...i attack!
Your comment is better than one I was going to say!
I guess I mean exploding Jing...The type of Ging you issue when you strike someone!!! Fa Jing!
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"
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There is no REAL secrets in Wing Chun, but because the forms are conceptual you have to know how to decipher the information..That's the secret..
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"