How Your Muscles Play A Role In Wing Chun
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2023
- Very interesting to came across this conversation with Annie. Annie Malaython is a NASM Master Instructor and was featured multiple times as personal trainer on a popular TV show called "I used to be fat". She is very knowledgeable about human body structure and alignment. In this video, she is gonna point out which muscle needs to be activated while you are doing Wing Chun and why is important to keep your structure.
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This might be the most illuminating video I've seen on not only wing chun but martial arts in general.
Thank you!
I would argue that this applies to all athletic activity in general.
Extremely informative, she's demystified Tai Ji Quan masters in less than 20 minutes! Thanks for this little gem, Kevin!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've studied martial arts for over 35 years now, and I have heard a lot of people speak on them. But not once, until this video, have I ever heard someone explain certain core concepts even 1/10th as well as Annie Malaython managed to do. Truly impressive, given that I've been impressed dozens of times before. To eclipse other competent speakers is not easy.
In swordplay, there is are concepts called "the weak of the blade" (the section toward the point; usually about 3/4 of the blade) and "the strong of the blade" (the section toward the hand; usually about 1/4 of the blade). You should always attempt to deflect and/or bind with the strong, not the weak - otherwise your opponent can get the better of you, manipulating your blade enough to get in a blow past your defenses. With good body structure, a person can move that ratio where the blade feels weak/strong from 3:1 to 2:1 or even 3:2 in some cases. So much of what Annie was talking about reminds me of what you do in swordplay to make your blade more effective (both offensively and defensively). It is a lesson that I've always applied to my martial arts, but hearing her explain it clarified for me exactly what I've been doing all these years.
I'm also reminded of a lesson I never understood until today, from my very first sensei. He said that strikes are loose, but blocks are solid. It never entirely made sense (I was only 11 when I heard it), and he didn't even try to explain what he meant by those words. But seeing Annie talk, it all started to click just a bit. The deflections are a solid body, all the way through. The strikes are done with the chest "empty" and relaxed, even though the muscles required for the strike fully engage. I'd come into such habits organically, but I didn't realize until this video what my first sensei meant.
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Brilliant video. We need more of these breakdowns, she’s awesome 🤩
That was fantasticly informative! I feel like this should be a must watch for ANY martial artist. Ive never seen or heard structure explained and demo'd so well. Ty so much!
Definitely a shoutout to my favorite and best PT and her willingness to help others get better in basic mobility, rehab and even martial arts 😊
One of your best videos! Thanks for sharing!
Immensely informative video.. Thank you for this❤🙏🏻
Anytime I get asked questions by other students about certain movements in my kung fu class, I wish I knew more about the human anatomy and how the muscles in the body move with those different techniques we use. So this whole lesson about your structure and "sinking" gives me a different perspective on how to look at how we use our body in in martial arts.
This is a great video with tremendous insight from Anne and incredible openness from Kevin!
I tried the Tan Sao with the tightening of the opposite ab and it worked great. Then I tried it with just the intention without tightening the ab and it worked just as great. This seemed to confirm the teaching of relaxation, intension, and energy.
I will practice forms with muscles engaged to cement my intension and connection, and Chi Sao with relaxation and intension for max sensitivity.
Again, I am super grateful for this enlightening video!
Your channel is really good. Starting Wing Chun now, lots of good info here
This is really amazing ,and very important that you knock on that door ,as it's totally ambiguous to lots of people & can't put it into action however how many years they have been practising the martial art itself.
Thanks so much!!! I’ve been applying this and having my dojo realize the importance of how the breath makes stances and forms much stronger. This is awesome!
You're so welcome!
That was amazing. We need one of her in every dojo/dojang.
Yessss
Annie is fantastic! Every martial art should teach like this !
Thank you for sharing. It’s a good video.
Thanks for this vidéo very interesting for practice correctly
An amazing video that reinforces breathe, strength and connection.
awesome video man!
Great video very helpful. Thanks
You're welcome sir!
Awesome video! Thank you
My pleasure!
Mike, you're awesome!! Just a shout out to you man. You're always taking a beating or doing demonstrations with masters on this channel . Not to downplay Kevin on his own channel, just wanted to give credit where it's due. Much love and respect to you both.
Very interesting reminder on how engaging all parts of the body to achieve desired results (power and speed aided by breathing, posture, stance (proper anchoring) and thrusting) otherwise techniques are executed poorly. The problem is avoiding just going through the motions and actually focus on all these areas instinctively (ahh, Sensei and Sifu always drumming the message that is a struggle to remember... one day). Great video.
Thank you!
This is awesome! MOAR content like this! Hell, even try different forms from different martial arts! I bet anything could be improved by proper mind-muscle connection and intention behind movement, from soft tai chi through boxing and kicking to stick/knife/sword fighting!
Most definitely!
learning wing chun from zero...congrats kevin!
thx to Annie for the clearly
Thank you! I am always learning!
DUDE! She is teaching you guys the difference between just movement and movement with momentum! Amazing stuff!
beyond just movement. statically which is more difficult to understand cuz its inside.
Thank you!
My god I've been waiting for a one stop shop video for structure in martial arts
This really matches how I'm being taught as well. Focus on the whole body structure being aligned to be able to take external pressure without being moved. External pressure should be redirected towards the ground, if the whole body structure is aligned properly. Roll shoulder blades back to avoid shoulders going up and elbows 'flying' out. Keep center of gravity more on the lower parts of the body rather than the upper (shoulders and chest). Relax shoulder and arm muscles. Have the upper and lower body moving together as one unit instead of moving separately. I think the main objective of the siu nim tau 小念頭 is to do the inner work and learn to coordinate all the inner parts to move your intention and energy in each move. This is what takes a lot of dedicated time and effort to build. The external movements that can be observed from the outside are just the tip of the iceberg.
Omg....wow, super helpful!
Glad you think so!
"I don't know wing chun", she said. This lady is the deepest I've seen.
you haven’t seen the real deal from the CST lineage. No muscle contraction, just pure power from relaxation. Real kung fu
Thanks.🙏
Great video thanks. 🙏She mentions"breath work" Did she give you any tips or exercises outside of what you have chosen to put in the video?
Jack Dempsey's Championship Fighting used the same kind of resistance concept with his "power line" explanation with punching! Very cool video.
Thank you!
I could be wrong, but feel like she is talking about 气沉丹田 but in English
This has completely changed my Wing Chun. Thank you so much for posting this, I can feel the differences already.
Thank you!!
A lot of people don’t have a clue about this 😊 my sifus did ❤
Good job sharing the knowledge
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Very helpful. Reminds me a lot of Jin Young.
Great video, very interesting. I can't tell for sure but it looked like the guys Tan Sau at the beginning of the video wasn't on center line, that's very important.
Congratulations for 100k champ ❤
Thank you!
@@KevinLeeVlog your welcome
We can apply same sinking in muay thai also?
Many old school karate teachers will do this with their kata- Sanchin, Tensho,…this is cool to see it come from a modern trainer, almost like it it’s the exact same way it would have been taught generations ago.
You’re right. I’ve seen that before
Woah! The last 5 years of my training just unlocked
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Really cool.
Thank you!!
Soooo, question on that then... I know the punch, the breathing and the "sinking" into the centerline can all go together and that makes use of the hourglass stance in rooting the punch in something solid from your base... so I'm on board with this. The question being, CAN you also do this WITH proper breathing to generate "rising", or "spinning" or even "retreating/advancing" energies? It would seem to me that the breathing for each would change in patterning, movement and even what you're doing vocally during all of it.
Energies are a misleading word. Should be force, because its work from muscle. Energy here she means in terms of the connection between the arm -> core -> legs -> ground in order to excert and maintain stable force. ENERGY is the potential of doing work. Better alignment, more energy to excert force. If parts are unaligned, difficult to use energy to make the muscles work and so on. Energy is not magic.
@@TBButtSmoothy "Energies" works just fine for what I was asking her. Thanks, though, for your opinion.
this really reminds me of chu shong tin wing chun that pushed siu lim tau to the limit so the spine could be unlocked to move the whole body together for any action.
even the way your video was shot is really similar to the students that recorded their sessions with cst XD
Kevin, how can I study with you and Francis Fong? I mean, where do you guys teach?
We are in Atlanta, GA!
Adam Chan talks about similar stuff. This is enlightening.
Thank you!!
it would be cool to see her watch sifu francis do some of these movements as well.
Great video, my family and I have just started Wing Chun. This makes a lot of sense now. Our Sifu is German (I'm in Germany right now) some of the words get lost in translation.
Thank you! Hope you are enjoying your training!!
Great video. Yes, the chest must be sufficiently relaxed otherwise breathing is difficult, chi gets stuck etc. How to relax the chest sufficiently on the fly (during chi Sau etc), is a different ball game.
It's amazing to see how she manage to give the same advices to get in the right position as my instructor while she admit herself that she doesn't really know about Wing Chun. It's basicaly a proof of how much it makes sense to me.
If all the students, whatever their practice times, understood the close relationship between mind and physical, between intention, breathing and movement, they would progress much faster because they know where to focus their intention to have a good quality of training. A principle for any martial discipline!
That's a basic clue for what we love, I followed, not knowing it, Bruce's path was a lot filled with bodybuilding and I study as a personal trainer too, my actual sabum is now aware of how the muscles work in tkd cos I start it at 23 yo not just be a 18yo and was working for Olympics game's so did kick and jump without aware of any muscles! That's drove me crazy so I did start codify the style ahahah 😂❤❤❤😅
what’s her wing chun lineage?
Yg paling sulit dari latihan kungfu adalah latihan internal, teknik wingchun sih gampang ditiru dan dipelajari tetapi klo sudah bicara internal akan lain. Kungfu terdiri dari Im Yang System, teknik2 hanyalah YANG system, sedangkan internal ada dalam unsur IM.
Klo diliat2 system diatas itu lebih ke arah pengarahan2 internal sama seperti yg sering dijelaskan oleh GGM Chu Song Tin.
Mohon diperbaiki jika opini sya salah.
Neat how sports medicine supports the art of movement! 🤙
Yes it does!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Would be interesting to see how she goes with Nima King
You know what would be great here CGI image with colored or lit up muscles that should be engaged and relaxed when specific techniques are being used 😎
Energy is the capacity for doing work.
Work is the transfer of energy by a force acting on an object as it is displaced.
Energy is the force from which the muscle works.
She talks about how muscles and bones work. Not magic or supernatural things.
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Love your videos btw
Playing along at home
Nim lik , intention and correct postural structure 👍
Now that's a level of depth and sophistication you don't see from your regular fitness coach. If more personal trainers were like her, we probably wouldn't have needed traditional styles))
She is definitely on a different level!
Traditional or ancient methods teaches the how, modern methods teaches the why
Wumei would be very proud.
Hollow chest is what my Sifu always used to say.
Isn't that card a negative
So, Chi Gong is part of Martial Arts. Why do you think Tai Chi is done in the park with the trees around??
Bong Sao, isn't just a deflection. It is rolling your forearm to roll the incoming force past you. In that moment of touching your opponent, you roll the incoming arm with you and past you. That is why you twist the forearm.
I like Kevin, but the best wing Chun is Xing Yi 😊
the whole video just had me imagining a tree, rooted to the ground.
i wonder what sifu francis thinks of this? might be something he does naturally from the many years of training.
Sifu does this naturally with his body. 😂
Six harmonies, three points.
I love Budo Taijutsu!!!
The power of Qi Gong
Question what does she mean be sink here? Is it the breath or weight or tension to your abdominal or to the top of the stomach area etc. can you please explain thank you
Her idea is correct, her method is wrong. The focus is not muscle, but the fascia. Stretching the spine downwards and the focus should start at the lower back and lower half of the body as a beginner. In Chinese the lower back is called the Ming Men. It should be a deliberate relaxed state, not flex. You will hear different terms from different masters. Hang the flesh, or melt into the ground, or a string attached to your head while relaxing downwards, or pull the spine upwards, or tuck in tail bone, or sit into it, or relax the shoulders etc. All trying to describe the active stretching of fascia around the spine to beginners.
Mr. Simon: it may be semantics but trust me Annie knows her stuff as it relates to body alignment, rehab, mobility, etc and was trying to explain what muscle groups may need to be engaged to provide maximum or best structure support but as admittedly is not a martial arts practitioner. Fascia is present throughout the body including muscles, tendons, etc, and since tendons are the anchor points to our joints and muscles are one of the prime movers of our body I think your description would also have to entail a discussion of how you achieve that skeletal elongation without proper muscles activation but this video and discussion I hope brings some a better enlightenment or just curiosity when practicing our forms no matter what the art or just working out in general.
@@vincenthyman895 you asked a very excellent question. How does one seperate muscle and fascia? In internal arts, this is what is classified as Yin and Yang seperation. Most people never arrive at this destination due to its confusing semantics and complexity even with a good teacher. As for Annie's definition of structure, it is closely related to harder styles. For example, Karate practices Sanchin. Tightening the muscles around the core/back/everywhere else beyond its limit with exhale. As for softer styles like Wing Chun, it's actually being relaxed, while stretching the fascia everywhere with the exhale. You'll never hear a wing chun master go, tighten your muscles, flex etc, while practicing Siu Lim Tao.
yes, her method is quite wrong. However, if you preach a wrong method with confidence, nobody would ever dare to contradict you. Same thing applies here. One of the best internal wing chun method (and in my opinnion, the only one which worths the effort) is the CST method. Not bullshit external wing chun, based on muscle contraction and other useless aspects
Whatever the case, do you not have to move your muscles to thus move and control your fascia? She never told him to flex or tense up but pointed out the specific muscles to engage to work in unison without all the crazy semantics anyone can understand! 😳🤦🏻♂️🙄/👌✌️🤲☝️😉
In Mothers form stance, sink into it, not just your hips or your stomach. Your base is a Mountain, and your upper body MUST be the clouds.
As well on the topic of structure and breathing I would love to come share a para-sympathetic breathing class with you guys if you would have me.
what a theatre
@MindfulWingChun would find this interesting.
probably other way around...duno what they doing here seems like whole lot of nothing
So Practice dont make perfect. Perfect practice make perfect. Ok
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In terms of internals and Energy wing chun peeps are clueless and lack the proper tools to teach that part... it is hit or miss but mostly miss in Wing Chun
without the perspective of women we would not have reached the levels we are now days
When you sink you are doing taijiquan
How the get knocked out by a real fighter
Thanks for this vidéo very interesting for practice correctly