I very much respect that while you are showing potential self-defence applications, you emphasise that you are not teaching for self-defence but for understanding. I've seen your video on the distinction between being a martial arts practitioner and being a fighter. Most modern people simply aren't in a situation that would allow nor necessitate translating older practices to real combat, but for our predecesors, they just did what worked for them in the historical and environmental situation. As someone who enjoys studying different cultures, I've seen too many people who when they see a foreign practice, tradition, or artifact will simply dismiss it as "weird" or "impractical." This goes for not just martial practices, but also things like food, religion, etiquet, and art. They may not have had the same accumulation of knowledge that we do, but our ancestors were no more or less intelligent than we are. Everything in a culture exists for a reason, and I believe a big part of preserving culture through traditional practices like martial arts should be preserving those reasons because it offers a clearer glimpse into our history. On that note, as someone who's somewhat removed from his Fujianese ancestry, thank you for playing a role in preserving the Wuzuquan tradition and aiding my understanding of a piece of my heritage. I wouldn't quite call myself a martial artist (yet), but I very much enjoy your videos and respect your honesty.
I'm not quite sure how I've missed your channel but I love how pragmatic and well-thought out your explanations and analogies are. I've done a bunch of other Chinese martial arts styles and it wasn't until I started with Bak Mei/ Yau Kung Mun that things started to ergonomically make sense. The Hakka arts are just such a deep well of "strange-looking" yet sensical body mechanics when understood. Your videos are calming, thought-provoking and inspiring towards my own progression. I look forward to seeing what comes in the future. Keep practicing, stay healthy and positive Declan!
IDK. In our school it's the armpit point . I mean when your elbows re open wider than your body; it's because your armpit's open. The concept that your whole body from below(feet) up should support your hands action. But if the armpits open up, then only the shoulders area that support your hands and you can feel that the shoulders area tends to be tired easily. Years ago someone came to our temple. He told me he's learning wingchun from youtube and movies. Then he tried to test his wingchun with us as he already did with other martial art clubs. Of course at first he couldn't withstand our bumping hands conditioning. The other day he came early when I was alone. He asked me to do sticky hands. At first I put my hands gently on his wrists but he said: 'don't be panic, your hands too stiff. Just relax. We re just learning from each other. It's no competition'. It's obvious that he felt my hands re heavy when touching his wrists while I felt so relaxed. Then I tensed my muscles from fingers up to shoulders and put both hands on his. This time he said: 'yes, this way better. Relax'. And I said to myself: Oh, we have different concept here. Then he's start moving his left hand(my right hand also moving) and I knew that the next will be: his right hand will start right left-chain punch, and as the reflex; my right hand left and went to his chest. We started again and I did the same. So then I said sorry we had to stop as I didn't know at all about sticky hands-game.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. However, my video is not about your school and what it teaches about the elbows. Nor is it about Wing Chun. It is about what Wuzuquan teaches. If by "IDK" you mean that you are not convinced, that's OK. I am not trying to convince anyway. I am just explaining what we do in Wuzuquan and why.
Like your last vedlo like the form put important like way you control your breathing on movement as this is big part of karate they even akata in karate dealing with breathing my master was 5foot 6 inches tall from japan put all power comes from ground up.and hips as said done arts from China wing chun centre line invented by nun in China love straight blast chain punch it like machine gun many people say how do you beat aboxer me low kicks to knee or higher up.the leg gives you dead leg the straight blast wingchun punch s then rear naked choke standing up put be humble you going have good foot work to get inside aboxers jab
Thanks for the lesson D, always informative. if I was near you I would like to train with you . Look forward to the next clip.
Many thanks for your support!
I'll be doing another video about the power train through the elbow, so watch out for that.
I very much respect that while you are showing potential self-defence applications, you emphasise that you are not teaching for self-defence but for understanding. I've seen your video on the distinction between being a martial arts practitioner and being a fighter. Most modern people simply aren't in a situation that would allow nor necessitate translating older practices to real combat, but for our predecesors, they just did what worked for them in the historical and environmental situation.
As someone who enjoys studying different cultures, I've seen too many people who when they see a foreign practice, tradition, or artifact will simply dismiss it as "weird" or "impractical." This goes for not just martial practices, but also things like food, religion, etiquet, and art. They may not have had the same accumulation of knowledge that we do, but our ancestors were no more or less intelligent than we are. Everything in a culture exists for a reason, and I believe a big part of preserving culture through traditional practices like martial arts should be preserving those reasons because it offers a clearer glimpse into our history.
On that note, as someone who's somewhat removed from his Fujianese ancestry, thank you for playing a role in preserving the Wuzuquan tradition and aiding my understanding of a piece of my heritage. I wouldn't quite call myself a martial artist (yet), but I very much enjoy your videos and respect your honesty.
Many thanks for your kind comment, Micah.
In fact, I have a video planned to explain why I don't teach self-defence.
I'm not quite sure how I've missed your channel but I love how pragmatic and well-thought out your explanations and analogies are.
I've done a bunch of other Chinese martial arts styles and it wasn't until I started with Bak Mei/ Yau Kung Mun that things started to ergonomically make sense.
The Hakka arts are just such a deep well of "strange-looking" yet sensical body mechanics when understood.
Your videos are calming, thought-provoking and inspiring towards my own progression.
I look forward to seeing what comes in the future.
Keep practicing, stay healthy and positive Declan!
Many thanks for your kind words!
I'm glad you find my videos helpful.
These are great!
Many thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
IDK. In our school it's the armpit point . I mean when your elbows re open wider than your body; it's because your armpit's open. The concept that your whole body from below(feet) up should support your hands action. But if the armpits open up, then only the shoulders area that support your hands and you can feel that the shoulders area tends to be tired easily.
Years ago someone came to our temple. He told me he's learning wingchun from youtube and movies. Then he tried to test his wingchun with us as he already did with other martial art clubs. Of course at first he couldn't withstand our bumping hands conditioning. The other day he came early when I was alone. He asked me to do sticky hands. At first I put my hands gently on his wrists but he said: 'don't be panic, your hands too stiff. Just relax. We re just learning from each other. It's no competition'. It's obvious that he felt my hands re heavy when touching his wrists while I felt so relaxed. Then I tensed my muscles from fingers up to shoulders and put both hands on his. This time he said: 'yes, this way better. Relax'. And I said to myself: Oh, we have different concept here. Then he's start moving his left hand(my right hand also moving) and I knew that the next will be: his right hand will start right left-chain punch, and as the reflex; my right hand left and went to his chest. We started again and I did the same. So then I said sorry we had to stop as I didn't know at all about sticky hands-game.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
However, my video is not about your school and what it teaches about the elbows. Nor is it about Wing Chun. It is about what Wuzuquan teaches.
If by "IDK" you mean that you are not convinced, that's OK. I am not trying to convince anyway. I am just explaining what we do in Wuzuquan and why.
Like your last vedlo like the form put important like way you control your breathing on movement as this is big part of karate they even akata in karate dealing with breathing my master was 5foot 6 inches tall from japan put all power comes from ground up.and hips as said done arts from China wing chun centre line invented by nun in China love straight blast chain punch it like machine gun many people say how do you beat aboxer me low kicks to knee or higher up.the leg gives you dead leg the straight blast wingchun punch s then rear naked choke standing up put be humble you going have good foot work to get inside aboxers jab