When is tan sao not a tan sao?

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ironfist

When the h3ll did I say all of that???

Problem is - you clearly did’nt understand a word I said. Let’s try it again.

First, you must learn the hand forms, and then all of their different applications. Hopefully then, thru hard work and dilligent training you’ll develop your own preferences for using them.

An instructor can always teach you a certain approach to handle an attack, but it’s really up to the practitioner to make it his own.

My preference to that punch would probably be pak da.

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“My preference to that punch would probably be pak da.”

Really? I find pak da to dangerous for me. I would use it only in a situation when I was to late for anything else and had to move my head to the side to not get hit. In pak da it is to easy to miss the punching hand in that situation.

Just my opinion.

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vt108

Exactly.

We all have our preferences in what we like using. I happen to feel very safe with pak da - but then again, I could be using it quite differently from you.

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When is tan sao not a tan sao?..when it is called a Beggars Hand..LOL
But in all Seriousnous…it’s when it is a Sae Sao!!!
Hope thid helps!!!

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When is a tan sau not a tan sau?

When it is bong sau, lap sau, kwan sau, jit sau, gan da, fuk sau, wu sau, biu sau…

But seriously dudes… first we must define when is it a tan sau..

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i know this discussion is about tan sau, but if they c0cked back their fists you should have already smacked them like 6 times.

People get too hung up with chasing other peoples hands/parrying (there is no blocking in wc). Remember that you are attacking them.

You should always be the first to strike. Blocks just really don’t work that often on the street.

Learn to hit first and hit hard.

PS - i’m not saying don’t learn to dicipate (sp?) attacks! Just remember wc is an aggressive ATTACKING style. Attack ferchrissakes!