Originally Posted by
tc101
Sorry but I do not like the rolling eyes bit as it is condescending and sooo little schoolgirl in attitude. I just find it surprising that people who train martial arts and fight spend so much time rolling their eyes. In all my years in various boxing gyms I've never once seen the eye roll. But on the wing chun forum it seems to be the in thing. OK enough of my venting.
Here's the deal, stepping in and forcing someone back is not controlling their balance or their center of gravity. Someone can even physically push you around and you can still maintain your balance and center of gravity, and still be "set" to counter which they wouldn't be if their balance was taken. It is much more advisable to have realistic goals and objectives, things you can achieve much of the time, things you can readily pull off and so forth. Sort of like those people who talk about "blending" with an attacker, yes it sounds great only it is not going to happen most of the time so having that as your #1 go to plan is going to leave you mighty unhappy.
Can a person control an opponent's balance and COG? Sure. Momentarily and very infrequently. So to have your goal or objective to do that seems highly impractical since for most of the fight its not going to be there. It does not make much sense to say don't chase his hands really means control his balance and COG when you could just say control his balance and COG in the first place.
Yes I saw the pak sau turning the opponent in Sean's video and that just shows not the skill of the person using the pak sau but that the person on the receiving end has been very poorly trained or engrained with bad wing chun habits, like leaving his arm out there, swiveling at the hips in response to pressure, not maintaining facing, and so on.