Addicted To Kung Fu
Understanding the Bong sao can be very difficult at first. Especially considering it’s one of the first deflections you learn in Wing Chun…
Maybe this has happened to you? Have you ever tried using a Bong Sao and the deflection fails you or worse you start to feel a burning pain in shoulders? For some folks they end hearing a popping sound in their joint. [Read more…]
While pride and ego can be a good thing, more times than not it’s actually a very bad thing to carry around in your Wing Chun training.
In the Wing Chun community there are ten’s of thousands of people from all over the world who train in Wing Chun.
In today’s martial art climate you would think that would be unity among all the different Wing Chun families. [Read more…]
You don’t have to search too long to find debates about Chi Sao Vs Sparring. You can find arguments all over the internet especially in the MMA VS TMA circles.
Wing Chun is a style that you either love or hate. I am not sure why that is, but you can literally walk into an martial arts forum and have a ton of martial artist involved in flame wars.
If you trained in Wing Chun for any amount of time you probably know that Chi Sao is like sparring for the Wing Chun community. I myself have been playing Chi Sao for around 20 years now.
With my Sifu my Chi Sao training is very structured. However, in the street training with other Wing Chun practitioners it can sometimes be the closest thing to fighting that you can experience without fighting. [Read more…]