Yong Chun White Crane training - 永春白鹤拳对练 - please read desciption before commenting

Standard Yong Chun White Crane conditioning drill mixed with other drills to check stances and then free form. My stance is a little high, but the overall flavour of the work is OK by me. Posting like this rather than reshooting to look better as that is where we are up to. This exercise gives a chance to evaluate the progress of other more isolated exercises.

This is not Sparring or push hands.

Cannot take credit for all of Fernandos training as he comes from a good karate and tai chi background. We have been training together for a couple of years now.

Welcome comments / criticism / advice , but if you dont say what your name is and where you train, then I will delete them.

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[vajra8ru]

Seems to me that the speed is too high especially for the shorter guy - he looses balance often, does not have enough time to connect hands and feet... At least I was taught to increase speed only when partner feels comfortable with the current speed - otherwise there will be no inner progress, only some reflexes... And again, his body will remember that loosing balance is ok.

Greetings from Moscow -) Max

[martinpaulwatts]

@vajra8ru Hi Max. Good comments. I think sometimes loosing your balance is OK e.g. if you are falling into ( or on top of ) someone - that is , perfect balance == very little movement. Best Wishes. Martin

[LatYCP]

Our Yong Chun Pai has drills to similar effect that uses the forearm conditioning along with a sensitivity component (in addition to chi-sau). It would appear that there is too much physical strength exerted between the 2 of you. concentrate on the dan tien and the connection between it, the hips and the elbows. As you have also pointed out, the stance is too high. Your exercise definitely has potential. remember the internal!

Ben

[martinpaulwatts]

@LatYCP Hi Ben- thanks for the comments all of which are apt. When you sit the dead weight on the leg structure that is one way to keep the force down - it is much more difficult to do as you go up in stance. That is what we are playing with a bit here. it is , as I am sure you know, because supporting the weight on the muscles, the muscles tend to over compensate and then it is easier for the other person to uproot you. good to play with though. Best Wishes.

[StevenRayW]

Nicely done. I'm a White Crane stylist from Taiwan and what is shown here is the classic way in which conditioning drills are performed in the original crane branches.  Yong Chun Bai He is considered the predecessor of younger crane styles such as whooping crane, feeding crane, and vibrating crane.

Keep up the good work, guys!

[martinpaulwatts]

@StevenRayW Thank you very much for such and encouraging comment.

[kenporich]

Hey Martin,

I loved this,one of these days I will have to take another lesson from you, keep it up man.

Rich

[martinpaulwatts]

@VingDragon Yes! That is almost exactly as they are doing in Yong Chun. - you can imagine our sequence by removing the grabbing parts. In our arm strike we are also trying to unbalance the opponent - to say the course of the interraction is set by the first impact in terms of momentum and balance. Of course against Fernando it does not quite work like that. Very nice to make that connetion - thank you very much!

[VingDragon]

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[VingDragon]

@martinpaulwatts - yes I understand your drills and the way its performed. its always pleasure to watch. I paste the link to the video for you to compare. please take a look. warm wishes

Derek