yeah, because we think to strike over arms the obvious is missed , he delivers a ‘lever’ extends his arm , attack that attack by slipping/parrying the arm , not to place force on it but guide or hold your line so it goes sideways to your forward entry…ie use forward attack lines with lateral deflections …you can use bong this way too…it goes left to right and vice versa so you can use it to displace as you go in dropping the bong to clear your own attacking follow ups…boxers do this elbow raising too only facing shoulder to shoulder…if you add a FAST elbow up to bong it creates adisplacing force in the bong alone…so it becomes a working parry on lateral lines …by contact or not it clears the way by making the guys extended arm pivot him on his axis if hes putting energy out to much or looking for a place to grab you or use distal force from the elbow. Why we keep the elbow as the control point , not the wrists.
try ballistic paks …forceful slaps to your centerline , but dont allow your force to carry you past ther center if you miss…you can practice this for a jab in particular…even if you dont make contact with the feint /jab/ strike you hold the line …if you do make contact the force transfer is unexpected by the recipient and can throw them offline easy., allowing a strike to the space created by the same hand on the line .." slap n strike " was WSl 'what was that move ’ ?" you heard the slap and the guy going down ; ) ..if they dont get displaced you can work the extended lever by going under …etc…try to avoid leaving your hand on the slapped arm or following it if you can simply strike with the vusao and go in , with 2 hands striking , rather than shut out the pak hand by over sticking /chasing …LET GO and hit : )
you can practice that by just taking your elbow offline and think of your arm like a whip, the elbow the handle the hand the tip, whip to your centerline as fast as you can using the elbow to centerline as the driving lead action…hand last, so to speak, hold the line dont go past it , then you can add a strike from the centerline …pak and strike one hand…this is also the jum strike action inside displacing force of the inside forearm coupled with a strike , only done in 1 beat to use the 2 forces together , so you have a striking hand using the lower sections of the arm , to low for pak , and still be aiming for the head regardless of contact or not…you dont have to think to use the deflections , they are inherently part of the strikes through dan chi-sao
attack for 9 out of 10 seconds and the are in your favor…
a good visual is your deflections are a sliding door in front of you ..any pressure or lines of force that meet the sliding action left to right & vv are taken left to right or vv..the more force the more dispalcement results…why we dont do ‘jamming’ actions’ but rather lateral shifts of force…bong , pak , tan & jum strikes all have this
the triangle tip and back down the sides lead back to the base line that can be your shoulders or your jaw ..right lead man sao can guide force back to your left ear, while keeping the elbow point fixed and vversa…this allows you to enter forward while allowing the incoming line of force to keep coming and strike the timing head on , not pushing it away , robbing yourself of force …actually helping the opponent to avoid getting hit to hard…put your hand on the centerline [ lead man sao] hold your pec tight and have a guy try to push in to your center…guide the push to your outside line jaw…step in and hit under the arm pushing to practice…
same with bong have them rest a hand on the lead hand [ man sao ] ask them to x over and use force , move the bong left to right , wrist xing the line , use the fore arm to guide the force…add more speed and chi-sao focus and you have a non thinking action …any fore meets you, it has no place to rest…unless it grabs you so we have BG.
Because the focus is to not stick aka place force on guys we become striking anglers to lines of force coupled with simple ballistic lateral displacement actions …the elbow is the focus point to control the force and alignment not wrist actions or hand chasing with wrists..or forwards fok sao bs on a bong sao to jamm it or use bong to jam forwards etc… ..forwards pressure using the distal portion of the arm is a nono,…even the strongest guys in class cant fight physics, if a strong guy knows this he stops trying to use distal force as many do naturally until the elbow theory is expalined… we can be taken sideways and get opened up in a blink of an eye.
:D…different mechanics, same result…without over committing in my view, is this how you see the differnce between boxing and WC?