 Welcome to combat Wing Chun. I'm Sifu David. Today we're going to talk about Wing Chun versus Jikun Do, or Jikun Do versus Wing Chun, which one is better, which one is better for you. What is the difference? We're going to get into that in this video. So stay tuned, there's a lot of information. We're going to dive right in. Let's talk about the stance of Jikun Do. Jikun Do stance is with your right foot forward, left foot in the back, almost in the line. Your left foot is out slightly and with your heel up, you can see that your heel is up like this, so that you're using the ball of your foot to launch forward, just like a track runner. Your body is likely 45 degrees this way. Your front fist is in a low position with the elbow down, pointing at the opponent's target, so this is always a threat to your opponent. The backhand is here to protect any other attacks that are coming in. So that's the Jikun Do stance. Here's the Wing Chun stance. The traditional stance is called a Yi Zi Kim Yo Ma, which means the letter two. The letter two is like this in Chinese, right? So the letter two, Kim Yo Ma, which means squeezing on the sheet, or the goat, and Ma means stance. So what they're basically saying is, imagine you have your legs squeezing a sheet between your knees. So the point of it is to keep the pressure inside of your legs here. The hands are in a Bai Zhong position. Bai Zhong means positioning it against the dummy. So they're all on the center line, and I'm facing my attacker square on. So we're going to talk about what's the disadvantages and advantages of this stance. Now there's another Wing Chun stance, which is called the front leading one, which is similar. But now I just have one foot in the front, keep the left foot, or it could be the right foot. Notice I switch stance. So if I switch to the front foot, the right hand is in the front. So this is also similar to the crane stance. The reason is because crane is the forefather of Wing Chun. So either it's going to be right foot in the front, or left foot in the front. But this is still protecting center line, and then I'm basically still square towards my opponent. I'm not turning sideways like this. So those are the two stances. I showed you the Ji Kung Do, Bruce Lee's Ji Kung Do stance, and I showed you the classical Wing Chun stance. Now what is a stance? The stance outlines the strategy of the whole martial arts. So let's take a look at Ji Kung Do. Why is Bruce Lee's stance this? What is the strategy? Actually Ji Kung Do is backwards from Wing Chun and backwards from a lot of traditional martial arts. Ji Kung Do, if you translate into Chinese, means Ji Kung Do, which means the wing of the intercepting fist. Bruce Lee's strategy was to be able to intercept the fist and to beat the guy in the punch. He can do it because he's fast, and he's quick, and he's probably one of the fastest attackers and the fastest martial artists that ever lived. So he can pull it off because he's so fast. So can you train yourself to be as fast as him, or even partially as fast? If you can do that, then Ji Kung Do might be a good strategy for you. So in Ji Kung Do, let's get Will in here for a second. In Ji Kung Do, I want to be able to beat him to the punch. Now if I have my hand out here, it's already halfway to the target. And then when my foot is caught here, I'm getting ready to launch an attack. So I want to be able to attack him before he attacks me. Because in a street fight situation, people are not going to guard and dance around and wait for somebody to launch an attack. They're going to have their hands down most of the time, and then just come up and hit. So in a street fight situation, the reason that Ji Kung Do is very good is because when he attacks, I want to hit him before he can even get his attack off. That's the term Ji Kung Do, intercepting fist. I'm intercepting his fist because he's attacking and I'm already there. So with this, it takes lots of training to be able to read his body movements. And also read movements that are not happening even before his attacks. Because before somebody attacks, what does he have to do? Usually they'll take a breath. And before they take a breath, before they attack, what do they need to do? They need to target you. And before they target you, what do they need to do? Their mind needs to be aware that they want to target you. So in Chinese, we have the saying, before the body moves, the chi moves. Before the chi moves, the mind moves. So if you can predict and you can read the person's intention, and you can also read his breath, which is the chi, then the body is easy to read because it's slower than everything else. So in Ji Kung Do, you want to be able to train yourself so that you can target the time you want. They're attacking the time you want. It looks like I'm just hitting him, but just attacking the time you want. So as soon as I feel that he's about to attack, as soon as I see, which is even slower, that he's about to attack, I actually have a lot of time to react to his attack. And because I'm in this guard, I'm already halfway there. I'm not starting from here. This is a longer distance. I'm already halfway there. As I'm closer, I'm already halfway there. Is that from here? I'm already there. So it becomes a faster and more effective way to intercept and to use your speed and use your power to overcome an attacker. So we're talking about the strategy of Ji Kung Do, which is to be faster than your opponent, cut him off with your fist and be able to launch fast and to intercept his attacks. That is the strategy of Ji Kung Do. And it worked very well for Bruce Lee because he is so fast and he's so non telegraphic that you can't tell he's going to attack and he's able to read his opponents so well that he can close in before the person can even think about attacking. So now let's talk about Wing Chun. What are the advantages and what are the strategies of Wing Chun? Well actually it's backwards from Ji Kung Do because the Wing Chun is standing like this. This is not the position you want to be in in order to launch forward because it's not the fastest way to launch forward. Wing Chun is designed to actually pivot. That's why in Chang Ki, we do so much pivot. Because Wing Chun was designed to be fought on bolts. So if you're asking which Wing Chun is better? Well let's take a look at the martial art. Why was it invented? Why was it developed in the first place? Who used it when they were developed? What were they doing when they were using it? Well Wing Chun was invented on bolts and then perfected by the opera, the both operas back then, back in China. So what are bolts? They're not stable, right? And there's a lot of stuff lying around on the ground. You don't want to be moving around too much on a boat. You don't have that much space. They designed a stance like this, a chain stance, to be able to operate and be able to counter people in a very small space. Now in northern China, they don't have a longer stance. Like this, because they use it for more kicks and they use it for jumping. They're able to jump off rocks and things because they're not using it on a boat. They have more room to use their technique. So you have to look at the martial art. What was it used for? So Wing Chun, if you talk about passively, this is the stance. So it's opposite of intercepting his fist. What Wing Chun does, the strategy is to is to block and attack at the same time. So if he's attacking, I'm blocking and attacking at the same time. Or if it's straight, I want to block and attack at the same time. Which is pretty fast. Pretty fast compared to other martial arts because other martial arts will be to attack, we go flop and then punch. Or it will be to flop and then punch. So most martial arts will be two beats. In Wing Chun, we condense that into one beat. One beat. One beat. Block and attack at the same time. So that's where Wing Chun is very useful because it's that much faster. Now that is the strategy of Wing Chun. It's to be able to do those things simultaneously. Now, let's contrast that with jikendo. Jikendo, let's say a task. I don't even need to block because I'm attacking and cutting them off. So those are two strategies. You decide what's better for you. Are you fast enough to use jikendo? Are you fast enough to read your opponent's attacks that you can use and cut in that pass? Now if you're not that fast, that strategy might be better for you because it comes in here. You can see it coming. Then you block and attack at the same time. It's basically the second best thing you can do. So those are the two different strategies of Wing Chun versus jikendo. So I get this question a lot. People ask me, what is your style? Well, it's something like a combination of different things because I train in jikendo and I train in Wing Chun. And I'm taking the best stuff from both worlds and make it into my own system called combative Wing Chun and also accelerated Wing Chun. So what I did is basically combine the two things. I'm going to combine the attack and defense at the same time from Wing Chun and also the ability to close in on the opponent and to intercept this attack. So that's why if you attack, then I go into Wing Chun at this point because I'm closer. So I start with jikendo. And then I end up with Wing Chun. So I'm able to blend both jikendo and Wing Chun. So which one is better for you? Well, you decide. What do you like? What are your physical abilities? What can you train? And what suits your style? So if you have any questions, make sure you comment down in the comment section. You probably have a lot. If you have some other tips that you want to give some other people on this channel, then go ahead and put it in the comment section. So like, subscribe, and I'll see you soon in the next lesson.