Wing Chun - Chi Sau Notebook 5-3-11 w Sifu Tom Chi

Here's some great chi sau notes for you, "blindfolded", etc.
Important to know how to play the kung fu "like an old man" as in not powering your way through everything but instead feeling, neutralizing, progressing, etc.

While it happens fast, chi sau teaches us Stages of Response in our entry to strike. If it happens at proper distance then one should be able to slice through the opponents defenses like butter. If you have to struggle chances are your chi sau is not so good. When pushed, pulled, off the center, etc., you should be able to allow the energy to go right by and keep focused on the centerline without much struggle. An example is an outside tan dar. Many people turn off to the side to play this technique. Instead, ALWAYS use forward energy. It may not end up allowing you to strike so then perhaps jut the blocking arm to move in closer etc. If the opponent takes the center from you with a sideways motion and you are ready to yield that particular vantage point, you will probably end up changing your tan to a bong, just like in Lop Sau exercise.
So... point is that great chi sau is used at appropriate distances and allows one not to struggle but instead essentially to control/release and bypass all the nonsense. If you struggle chances are you'll end up at a compromised or cho kil distance during that struggle and need to struggle even more.

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[linuxva]

Thank you Sifu !

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Next year I'd like to do a teaching tour of Europe and definitely Romania!

[MYVTKungFu]

Make a tour of Central America. Always welcome.