 Welcome to Command Wing Chun, I'm Sifu David and welcome to our virtual Wing Chun training program. So today we're gonna talk about how to do some basic Wing Chun blocks. We're gonna show you the techniques and we're gonna have some drills that you can do at home along with the video with Will. He's gonna be our attacker, virtual attacker and you're gonna be able to train these techniques directly from home in real time. So let's get started. So one of the most basic blocks in Wing Chun is called the Tan Sao block. So in our form, in the first form we have Tan Sao coming in this way, right? Tan Sao in the centerline. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna modify it slightly and then we're gonna take it up to the shoulder level. Okay, first we're gonna go from the center, straight up to the shoulder level and then we're gonna move it to 11 o'clock so that your index finger, your index finger is pointing at 11 and one o'clock. Notice that my elbows are down too. So from the side, if you measure your elbow to your ribs this should be a fist and a fist and a half, fist to a fist and a half distance between your elbow to your ribs. So you don't want it to be too close to your body and you don't want it to be too far out. So you wanna measure it so that it's about a fist to a fist and a half from your ribs. Also your shoulders are down and then your palms are facing up. If you look from the top, the hands are like this. Make sure your thumbs is tucked in and what you wanna do is you wanna think about a line going from your elbow to your index finger as if you're pointing from your elbow to your index finger. This one is going at, your left hand will be going at 11 o'clock and then your right hand will be going at one o'clock. So and then it will be at your shoulder level. All right, so what this is used for is very simply is against big hooks and hay makers, right? So boom, okay, so I want to use this to block it. So you can see it under the action camera now. Okay, that's what's happening. So I am going at 11 o'clock right into the crook of the elbow. So if he's gonna do it with his left hand, same thing, I'm going at one o'clock and then I'm going into the crook of his elbow. Make sure that when he does that, you don't block it here because that may not be as strong as here. And definitely you don't wanna block it here because his arm can go straight through. All right, you can see that. All right, so the drill is very simple. Now you're gonna do is he's going to just do left and right, left and right, right? And now I'm just going to do this. Okay, now that I'm between it, I'm gonna clap my hands. You know, the reason I clap my hands is so that I reset my hands in the middle, okay? If I don't clap my hands, beginners will tend to basically leave their hand out there and then that comes when I then have reset, okay? So make sure that you clap your hands, okay? So drill number one, you're gonna do this. Just check out our combat stance if you don't know what stance to use. Quick review would be to go put your feet together, then turn one foot 90 degrees, one time on a toe, turn another 90 degrees, second time, third time, and then another 45 degrees and then turn in your front foot slightly. That's your combat stance. So you don't know what that is, so make sure you check the combat stance in the other lesson, okay? So I'm in this stance. All right, I'm in my combat stance and then the drill is to clap your hands and then block. Clap your hands and then block. Clap your hands and then block. Clap your hands, block. Hands, block. Hands, block. From this angle, clap your hands, block. So now, with the virtual cam, we're going to do the same thing as you're going to do. Left or right? Right? And we're going to do this. Hands, block. Tap on hands, block. Hands, block. Hands, block. Hands, block. Hands, block. Okay?