Bo Lay Ying - I just got a taste of what I think is refered to as glass techniques.
Every so often something happens in class that makes my jaw drop.
Last night I was rolling with my instructor in a slow and controlled manner. The aim of the exercise that night, he said, was to fill the gaps, but not concern myself too much with the hit. Concentrate more on being aware of gaps in an opponent’s defense when they arise.
Okay I said, and of we went. My Sifu recently pulled muscles in his arm arm and shoulder and so was severely hampered. During the drill he let his damaged left arm return to his ribs while I attacked, and he managed to deflect my attacks with attacks of his own, with one arm. While I attacked with both hands, he shifted position and line, and used one hand to illustrate how he could, effectively, break my line from subtle positioning.
After maybe 20-30 seconds of this I had to stop because I’d started to laugh at how inept my motions were. My sifu has been training for just over 10 years.
Has anyone on the forum reached this level? How long did it take to attain and what was the feeling like when you realised your timing and structure kicked ass?!
On another note - are there any drills/exercises to strengthen the bridge? I feel I’m reaching a stage of my training where I’m using relaxation more effectively, but would like to develop a stronger bridge. Without wanting to praise my sifu too much, he has a biu sau that shears.
So everyone has limited experience, eh? (eh? for the benefit of the mass Canadian posters here in order to prompt a reply)
There must be some arrogant s*d out there with an impression of glass techniques.
How come everyone has a take on the Pole threads? I thought the pole was very advanced technology - how long is it taking people to fly through the system these days? :eek:
My well known instructor Sifu Hans Wuppertal is like your sifu an outstanding chisao expert. He’s even able to control my punches with his hands behind his back. I’m not kidding!!
He uses some kind of shoulder bong sao to deflect my punches.
After these shoulder bong sao’s, he can hit me down just by using his body and some magnificent footwork.
I can only hope to achieve such excellent level of wing chun
Some time ago my instructor gave a similar demonstration of defending himself with one hand whilst we dummies attacked with two.
He later explained that having two hands should be an advantage and showed how we could nullify his defences by concentrating on attacking his body rather his arms.
It is common during such training that those using two arms will focus on the one arm. By altering the focus we can take back the advantage.
That was many years ago, since then I have also done the same demo and subsequently taught my students how to counter my defenses.
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PS Expert “ex = has been: spert = drip under pressure”
Bo Lay Ying or Glass body techniques. “Black and blue” is right it is pretty advanced stuff. I’ve heard of it but does not know what it is exactly. I’ll ask my teacher about it. Until then…
I’ve heard glass techniques described as nulifying an attack with an attack of your own without having to control an opponents attacking limb. I was assuming this meant not having to make contact with the bridge.
Maybe they should be called Air Techniques:) I often feel, when ‘trying’ to hit my sifu that his bridge is made of air. He seems to avoid/angle away from attacks and, for example, his tan and bong has very, very light contact with my bridge. This might lead you to believe his bridge is weak. NOT SO. When he pak saus or bius it completely rocks my structure and if I don’t make a concerted effort to sink deeper, will be forced into losing balance (even if I try and angle away from the contact line).
So, this is what I meant by Glass Techniques.
On a funnier front, I learn’t a great ‘glassing’ technique from a friend in Scotland. We were fooling around in a pub one day and I jokingly said: “I’m gonna glass u with this beer bottle if you don’t stop moaning about money”.
I made as if to smash the bottle down on the table and he stopped me - looking really concerned. He said: “Never smash the bottle down and then come back up. Start from below the level of the table and bring it straight up - smashing it on the edge of the table and them come straight at my face in one action. This way the other guy has less time to see it coming and try and stop it.”
The more I think about this the more I think it’s pure Wing Chun principle. I think WSL would have loved it! :D;)
simply the same as mirroring someone…thus, whoever your chi saoing with can throw any attack he wants and each time you simpy stick to all motions that he does, in order to block it. thus your not using a particular techinque to block attacks.
this when done correctly is the true defintion and example fo sticky hands…
Yes these techniques do exist and take about 4-6 years to master. the trick is all in the mind. when you let it go, many wonderful things can happen. My advanced students are now reaching this level themselves.
