Thoughts?
Ed
Thoughts?
Ed
Ed, I practice in the Dallas, TX area with students of sifu Cottrell and they use kau sau. This is the first time I have come across kau sau.
Rindge
It's in the dummy form, so I would guess that it's pretty common. Can't comment on "every" lineage.
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After part 2 of the sil lim tao, i,e., after the section where you have the gum saos and then the spreading arm fan saos.
The next part begins with the section where you do the kao with the left hand towards the right shoulder, then you snap a reverse jut to the left while pointing fingers to the center line then do a chanjeong front wards at the neck level-then you do the huen, close the fist and return elbow to the side. Some folks do a pak instead of a kow there- but you have already done the pak earlier after the slow motions...no need to repeat the pak there.
Except for the huen, fist and return of the elbow to the side you generally do not repeat motions in the form apart from the repeats in the slow section where you do the tan, wu and fok.
The kow has a slight hooking look to it compared to the pak and goes more towards the shoulder than the pak. The kow among other uses when well practiced can control some punches- hook type coming close towards your head. Using a different structure and facing, a western boxer could say that a parry is an equivalent.
You can do timing and flow work with the kow.
Hope this helps.Regards,
Joy Chaudhuri
Hi again Joy, is photo number 9 on the link below what you'd call kau sau?
http://www.awcaonline.com/forms/mukyanchong.html
Hi Phil- unfortunately i am a tech nincompoop on videos and stuff. "ED" of Windy City Wing Chun
may have something on his site.
I dont know TWC terms and labels vary from time to time in wing chun and so do pronunciations.
My fak is in my biu jee. But some folks call our fun-fak. But there is a difference.
Fun sao -the palms are facing down in slt whereas the fak in biu jee has the palms facing out for the front fak.
joy chaudhuri
Thats a completely different school- some leung Ting influence in it possibly.
Photo #9 if I saw the right pic is not our kow sow.
Regards, Joy