With all the recent talk about WC and White Crane here is an example of sharing quite a few years ago…
Below is written by a White Crane expert Sifu Eric Ling about one of his many sessions with GM Ku Choi Wah.
"[I]Wing Chun Kuen and White Crane. December 9, 2007
1 attack 3 strikes is the law.
1 pull 1 push to disrupt ying yang.
Keep arriving and send outgoing, using your swiftness to devastate.
When the bridging is gone, strike out straight.
Use firmness to beat sloppiness.
3 ying and 3 yang, generate power from changes in stances (waist).
A section of the handwritten kuen kuit or fists poem from Ku Sifu of Ban Chung Wing Chun.
What is it doing here?
To give you a concept of how Ku Sifu and I compare notes.
Almost all of the above theories are found in the White Crane that I do.[/I]"
Here Eric describes his school’s understanding…
"[I]Take the 2nd line for instance, 1 pull and 1 push is one of our primary principles used to offset opponent balance for control or throwing or to use the old tongue; disrupting opponents ying yang.
A technique to demonstrate this push/pull principle. (pics above).
The attackers jab is deflected by a wing hand. The defender moves in, pushes with the right hand and pulls with the left. This twist the spine of the attacker and the defender uses his right elbow to smash down.
Again, like I stated before, to look for connection, we got to go deeper than common techniques and look for special markers.
Spending time work together with Ku Sifu is so rewarding; his knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of WCK is really excellent.
Touching hands with him is a total revelation.
So when he advocates that Wing Chun and White Crane could plausibly spring from the same source, I tend to be really swayed.
Posted by eric88ling[/I]"
You can type as much theory as you want and write pages on the most simplest of things all of which can be done in a few seconds face to face one touch and you know if someone has Kung Fu or is just a scholar, yes?