 Hey, welcome to Wing Chun for Beginners One. We're going to show you the first form in Wing Chun called Ceiling Tao, which means little idea or which means basic techniques. So let's get started. All right, so let's get into our starting position. Before we get into actual Wing Chun stance, we're going to start with our Wu Chi position. All right, so this is the position you get into before any kind of martial arts. Most martial arts actually start in a Wu Chi position. So what this does is that it trains you so that when you're in a natural position, you're just standing around on the street or you're just walking down the street. You're not in a fighting position yet. You're just in a natural position. So we're going to start in this natural position. So what it is is you're going to put your feet together. All right, they don't have to be touching. A little bit apart, maybe a niche apart from each other, your feet, your toes should be pointing slightly in. Okay, your knees are slightly bent. So if you're dropping a little bit, you're dropping just about an inch. All right, if you move up to your waist and your hips, you want to tuck in your tailbone. So if you feel your tailbone is the last bone on your spine, okay? And it should be, I don't even feel it. You want to tuck it underneath your legs like that. Okay, so tuck it. And what that does is it drops this part of the spine and then it rounds out the lower portion of your back. Okay, so from here, you want to pull the tip of your nose and the tip of your chin back towards the back of your head. So that strings out the upper part of your spine and neck. Okay, a common problem with a lot of people that use their cell phones a lot, they're going to do this with their hair, they're working on the computer, they slouch, and this happens to their posture. We have exaggerating, but you can see a lot of people have this problem. So what you want to do is practice to pull the tip of your nose and your chin towards the back of your head. And now that lengthens and strings out this part of your spine, all right? The next part is to pull the top of your head up towards the sky. So imagine there's a string that's hanging your head from the sky, okay? So you have your chin and your nose tucked in and pulled in. Now you want to make the neck even ever so slightly. Imagine your whole body is hanging and suspending from the string, all right? Now you want to also drop your shoulders, relax your elbows and your fingers and your hands. All right, so from the front, let's start over, feet together, toes pointing a little bit slightly in, not too much. Then you want to drop a little bit your knees. Then you want to tuck in your tailbone, all right? Suck in your gut and then pulling your tip of your nose and your chin and then suspend from the string from the sky. So once you drop a little bit more, you feel that your whole body is just suspending from the sky, okay? And then your arms are relaxed beside your body. Your eyes should be looking into the distance, a little bit slightly down and into the infinite distance. Your focus should be relaxed and your eyes should be slightly relaxed and slightly closed, okay? And also your tongue should be touching the roof of your mouth right behind your teeth. That's why you want to place your tongue, okay? So just relax in this position and this is your starting Bucci position. Okay, so from the Bucci position, we're going to go into our E.D. Kim Yong-na which is the translated number two, squeezing or clenching the lamb, okay? So it sounds funny, but what it is, is the number two. In Chinese, which is basically like this, okay? So the feet are doing that, if you look this way and you're imagining that you're actually squeezing a sheet between your legs, so the pressure and the intention is to tighten your muscles and engage the muscles on the inside of your leg, okay? So that's the explanation, so let's show you how to do it. So from your Bucci position, we're going to drop even more and bring our fist to our chest. All right, so starting here, we're going to drop about an inch more, okay? And then you want to bring your fist to your chest. Now, when you bring your fist to your chest, try to get your fist to be flush against the front of your chest, okay? You want to be out here, you're going to try to pull back pretty much close to the front of your chest and make them flush, okay? Your elbows, you want to pull them down and back, okay? Make sure you don't pull it up like that. That will just cause way too much tension in your shoulders and it's really bad posture. So you want to pull your elbows down and back and try to lengthen the muscles here while you're still keeping a Bucci position with your neck and your head, okay? So once again, from the side, we're going to drop about another inch, all right? Pull that fist up and keeping the rest of the structure from the Bucci. Remembering that you want to tuck in your chin and the nose towards the back of your head and suspend from the ceiling, okay? When you form fist, just so you know that you're going to close the fingers, the four fingers and then tuck in your thumb behind the first index finger, okay? So like this, close your four fingers and tuck your thumb underneath your index finger, okay? So that's how you do it. So drop and then like this, okay? Next, we're going to open our feet stance. So we're going to pivot our heels and open up our toes 45 degrees. Next, we're going to pivot on the balls of our feet and open our heels about 30 degrees, okay? So remember from here, open toes 45 degrees and then open the heels about 30 degrees. I say 30 degrees because 45 degrees is too much, okay? That puts too much stress on your ankles and if it's less than that, let's say it's like this, then it might be too little and you don't get the engagement of the muscles on the inside of the legs. So what I like to do is about 30 degrees. Now you get to engage these muscles inside your legs, on the inside of your legs and your ankles are not in a bad position, okay? So I encourage you to experiment to see what position is the most comfortable for you, okay? But definitely you don't want to have them point straight forward or outward definitely outwards like this, okay? So you definitely have to be pointing inwards. Okay, so from here we're going to set our set line. We're going to do a double cross block downwards. Okay, you're wondering how the hands should be. So your hands should be like this, fingers together and your thumb should be tucked. Never have your thumbs out like this. It's dangerous when you do a palm strike and I say you miss, you can easily break your thumb. So we're gonna tuck in our thumbs like that. Okay, cross block like this. Your wrist should be overlapping like that, okay? And you want to, from here, you want to flip it up to here. Okay, and that means that your fingers are around your nose level. Okay, so from here, your arms should be slightly bent, not completely extended like this. So slightly bent and then flip it up. From the side, if you look at it, you want to have a distance of about a fist or fist and a half between the elbow and the body. And then when you flip it up, that's what it looks like. Okay, that should be high. Okay, so from here we're gonna pull it back to our body. So if you look from the front again, from here, down, up and back to our chest. Okay, so why do we do this? This sets the centerline of our fighting box. Okay, so if I do this, the wrist is moving up and down the centerline of the upper body. And your hands and your fingertips are outlining the outer edge of the box. So just imagine there's a box, this will help you to visualize how big the box is. So from here, we're gonna pull it back. All right, so after we set our centerline, we're gonna do our straight punches. So start with our left fist, we're gonna move it towards the center of our chest. And as you move it, we're gonna slide it across our chest and now we have our knuckles pointed towards the target. Okay, so don't have your knuckles pointing to the side or down or up or whatever. So you wanna put your knuckles directly towards the target, which is right ahead of you. Okay, now punch it up. It's gonna be a vertical punch, which means your knuckles are in the vertical configuration. It's called yia ti zong gyun in Chinese because this is actually the same shape as the Chinese character yia, which means the sun. Okay, so now we're gonna open up. It's a tongue style. Just relax and have your palm facing up, your fingers pointing this way and do a hand style, circle hand, all right. Circle hand, we go and point our fingers up to 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock and then close our fist and then pull it back. Okay, we do the same with the right hand, bring and slide our fist towards the center of our chest right in front of our sternum here. Knuckles are pointed this way. We're gonna punch it out, right. Vertical punch, open it up to the circle and then suck it. All right, so the next movement is tongue style. We're going to open our left hand as a palm like this and we're gonna move it slowly to this position. This is tongue style. So your fingers should be pointing straight ahead of you. They should not be on an angle, okay? And your palm should be completely flat pointing upwards. Okay, and your elbow should be about a fist and a half distance from your body. All right, so how we get from this point to this point is very important. We wanna emphasize on dropping our shoulders and engaging our elbows when we do this, okay? So what helps is to slide the side of your arm across your body slowly and get your elbow nice and tucked and tucked in towards the center, okay? And you want to engage your lat muscles here. Okay, that's where you get the power, okay? So from here, we're gonna do a green style. Circle hand and get into this position, okay? So from tongue style, we do green style. So we're gonna go clockwise up to 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock, get into Wu style, okay? So we get into Wu style. Our palm is facing that way and your fingers pointing out, okay? So your pressure or your intention is to push out this part edge of your hand, okay? When we do a point style to Wu style, don't stand by the elbow points out slightly and that's just engaging that structure of this Wu style. Now we're gonna move it back to your chest, slowly, straight to your sternum until it's touching slightly. Then we're going to relax it, okay? So relax the whole arm, okay? So you've moved this around, it's completely relaxed, okay? Relax, imagine it's resting on something, okay? So it's completely relaxed, okay? Your wrist should still be in the middle, make sure your wrist is not here, it's still in the middle of your centerline. Now we're gonna move it out just like the first time. Make sure your elbow is nice and tucked in, shoulders down, out to about this distance, same as before. Then you do another green style, now your Wu style. Move it back, slowly to your sternum. Drop it, relax, move it out, focus out again. It's the second time. Wu style, Wu style, move it back, okay? And the third time, relax, and then push it out to about here. So remember, only this distance, you don't want too far, you don't want too close. So just about a fist to a fist and a half, depending on how much meat you have here. So then we're gonna do Wu style again, come back after the third time. Okay, so after your third time, you come back to here, you wanna slide your palm across your chest and out towards the edge of your shoulder. Once you got that, we'll go back to the center and your palms should be facing this way and now you wanna do a vertical palm strike, take your arm in Chinese, then flip it over into the tan suo again and then do a thin suo and suo qi or withdraw your fist, right? So that's the first step on the left hand. Now we're gonna repeat that on our right hand. So open up your hand as a palm, it's a tan suo, slide your elbow or the side of your arm across your ribs here. Okay, out to here. Palm should be about sternum level, your sternum is right where your lower rib cage meets in the middle, right? The hun suo, Wu suo, pull it back. Huk suo, relax everything, push it out, engage your elbow and drop your shoulders. Now to here, Wu suo again, hun suo and Wu suo, back to your chest, huk suo, that's the second time and then the third time, hun suo and Wu suo. Okay, once you hear it, slide it across your chest to the edge of your shoulders. Now bring it back to the center, palm spacing this way and do a jing jang, right into the nose or the chin. Do the tan suo, hun suo and suo qi. So that's the first section. So we'll see you in the next section.