This comes from the “Martial Arts Mastery” E-zine. Hidden Secrets of Martial Arts
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How to Defeat a Wing Chun Artist
Don’t Play the Attacker’s Game!
We hear this all the time – now. I remember when
only a few people, like Steve Golden, were offering
this sound piece of advice.
As I said, we hear it all of the time. So, why do
so few of us follow this sagely advice?
Because it takes work – you have to practice defeating
other styles, while avoiding their pet techniques.
This isn’t as hard as it sounds, especially when you
go against someone who is bound to their system – more
on this in a minute.
So, here are a couple of tips for taking on a
wing chun artist:
- Inside-Outside Hands
Many of the novice to intermediate ‘wing chunners’ don’t
like being on the inside with their hands. And even some
of the more advanced artists work their hands to an
outside position automatically.
Once they make contact with you, don’t be surprised if
they use the other hand as a check while the first hand
gets a ‘better’ (in their opinion) position.
This a great opportunity for you to surprise them.
Catch the wing shun artist as he or she makes a
change – especially if the practitioner breaks contact
and leaves an opening to the body.
- Beat On the Hands and Arms
Long ago, before Dan Inosanto disassociated himself
from his fellow Bruce Lee students, he use to come to
Eugene to give seminars.
At his first seminar, he told me/us “you wouldn’t be afraid
to fight Mohammed Ali, if he didn’t have any hands, feet,
arms, or legs, right?”
Dan’s tactic was to beat on anything that invaded your
personal body bubble. If a punch came in, you beat
the punch with a solid phoenix eye (knuckle strike).
A side kick racing at you was the perfect excuse to
take out your opponent’s shin shin.
Use this against a ‘wing chunner.’ A wing chun artist
loves contact – his or her wrists touching yours.
Why don’t you make your opponent ‘gun shy,’ so to speak.
Start pounding on hands, forearms, and wrists. Make them
afraid to reach in for contact.
- And speaking of Wrists …
On more than one occasion, I have heard wing chun
practitioners say, “we don’t do wrist locks in
our system.”
Perfect !!!
Remember, at the beginning of the article, I talked
about folks being “bound to their system?”
Well, here you go.
Just because they don’t practice wrist and joint
locks, doesn’t mean we can’t 'practice some of our
locks on them." [Giggle, giggle]
Which locks work best?
Glad you asked.
If you ever find yourself rolling with a wing chun
artist in chi sao (sticky hands), don’t play the wing
chunner’s game.
On the hand that is rotating, try either the Basic
Lock when you see the hand open up (tan sao), or try
a Double Ninety (see ‘Wrist Locks’) if you see the
rotating hand go into a bent-arm position (bong sao).
If you are new to chi sao, my advice would be to avoid
locking the fook sao hand. Your opponent’s wrist rests
on top of yours.
This fook-sao hand just tracks. As a beginner, you
probably won’t be able to effect a lock before the
hand finds an opening to your body.
Stick with the rotating hand.
And remember, don’t play the other guy’s game.
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Goes back to what I was saying in another thread abouth how JKD people always think they know more about our system than we do. Where does the JKD crowd get all theses crappy WC people anyway? Do they ever cross hands with someone with more than a couple of years of experience? I doubt it.
