Chi Sau
I have had the priviledge of meeting a very good IP Ching practioner...Who Poon Sau posistion was very closed. Its very interesting the dynamic of centerline structure when doing chi sau. If I do WC with a Yip Lineage practioner I understand this to be the standard for most and will abide by what your comfortable with...
I how ever have different variation of chi sau. For us chi sau is not about centerline. Its purely about sensitivity and developing it. We work on different elements like linkage, stealing, and controlling. Basically we don't utilize poon sau at all during chi sau...We use Jao Sao or running hands. Basically the hands are not as closed as Ip Man lineages. Its basically some what open. a little less than shoulder lenght. But not too wide and not to closed. We basically want to make it difficult to give you more of challenge to close the centerline and also give you the advantage to be able to defend your gates. In our chi sau we strike both center and gates. We use both Linear and circular attacks. If you are too closed outside or circular attacks will take more effort to defend leaving you slower to intercept or redirect outside attacks. If your too open it will be very hard and difficult to defend against a simply jab or straight right.
We reserve structure and centerline study for drills and sparring and san shou. Frankly in a fight I would never have both hands out like that in that posistion. To think even if your structure is closed your going to be able to stop strikes from landing is ridiculous in my opinion. At best you want to be cross hand or double wu sao to defend and protect the centerline.
Last edited by Yoshiyahu; 12-19-2012 at 03:57 PM.
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