Windy City Wing Chun Gung Fu, Inc

Chicago 2023 Seminar.

you want your structure to work? Then learn to constantly target their center with your entire being. The more you learn to target their center, and not the point of contact, the more you will feel when they are not targeting you.

When you can chi sau with your legs and run with your arms, your understanding connection and coordination.

If you are of the mind that, in any way you have to squeeze your fist a fraction of a second before impact, then you probably think you need to squeeze your foot before it impacts the ground when you take a step.

Wing chun is about finding out what is truly natural for the body to do.

Many years ago a talented artist I met at c2e2 was kind enough to create the WCWC logo, it’s with a sad heart to hear that she has passed away due to health reasons. Sho Murase I am grateful to have met you and appreciate your talent and skill that you shared with me as well as the world.

Why do you need to Chi Sau?? Here are a few reasons

- to learn to move your arms with force applied to them
- to learn to move your arms in a coordinated manor with each, and your body, and your legs
- to learn how to constantly target another person, all the time
- to learn to move your center of gravity, when force is applied to it
- to learn how to stay square to another person
- to learn how to catch and redirect with your arms, body and legs
- to learn how to apply hands, elbows, body and legs to the target
- to understand distance of my body and my body to a target
- to learn to move not with speed, but with timing
- to learn to have a calm mind under duress
- to learn to apply my natural motion and not force a motion to happen
- to learn not to chase the point of contact, but chase their center
- to learn to not stick to them, but make them stick to me
- to learn to not to react to exterior force, but to respond to my own imbalance

Careful who you play dummy for.

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Here is the final section of the air dummy.

It’s good to practice form in the air as it can really help your micro and macro structure coordination.

https://youtu.be/VM--h518hxA

Air dummy - section 8

We’re in the home stretch with the air dummy form. Section 7 of the air dummy. This section looks complicated, but once you get it to flow, it might be the most fun.

https://youtu.be/iZirlRyP0RY

Air Dummy - Section 7

Section 6 of the dummy form, might be the most complicated, but it also might be the most fun and flowing section too.
This section will really test your focus and control.

Slow to learn control
Control to release the power

https://youtu.be/OgBZfi5Ht1I

Air Dummy- section 6

Here is section 5 of practicing the dummy. You’ll notice as we go through these sections there are more combinations of multiple structure techniques. And some ones that challenge your center of gravity control. If you have been taught Bue Gee, you’ll see the Correlation between the two. That is why the first half of the dummy form helps take what you have developed in Chum Q and puts it against dead energy and the second half takes what you’ve developed from Bue Gee and puts it against dead energy for higher levels of body awareness and control.

Learn the feeling,
Know the feeling,
Use the feeling

https://youtu.be/MTkleXYSOTs

Air Dummy - section 5

Here is section 4 of the air dummy. It’s a short section with lots of development for the body.

Make sure you stick around until the end where I point out 3 common mistakes that I have seen done in this section.

https://youtu.be/hEE5EPnsOTY

Section 4 of the air dummy

Almost half way through

Section 3 of the mok jong in the air

https://youtu.be/8p1kQ-vVXdg

Air dummy - section 3

Practicing the dummy form in the air can be highly beneficial. Here is section two of the air dummy.

Learn it
Know it
Use it

https://youtu.be/DaaLg7_QB08

Air dummy - section 2

Feels good to be teaching in person again

If you want a nice challenge, try doing that dummy form without a mok jong. Here is a video of the first section, with some tips to look for while you are doing it.

Learn the feeling
Know the feeling
Use the feeling

https://youtu.be/2n4ydohG8S0

This is not good wing Chun development

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Sometimes seeing the connections of how a motion is developed in an empty hand form to how it is developed when practicing the mok jong can be a challenge to see, let alone do. But here is an example of how the fun sau is developed in SLT to how it is developed on the mok jong

Learn the feeling,
Know the feeling,
Use the feeling,

https://youtu.be/03H2u-Vjmds

Fun Sau, From SLT to the Dummy

This talented artist helped bring the Windy City Wing Chun logo to life.

Now she needs help with her life.

If you can, please help out.

Thank you

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Having the correct point of contact is. It just important with your fist, but equally as important when applying your palm strike.

It not only allows you to better deliver the potential power of your structure, but it also protects your hand and wrist from injury.

Learn the feeling,
Know the feeling,
Use the feeling

https://youtu.be/tDNvw7ZT8ko

Contact point for the 8 palms - YouTube

Good footwork is so important to making your wing chun great. Without it, you'll only be able to get so far.

going deeper into your footwork, a big question you need to ask yourself is, "Am I moving in my foot, or am I moving my center?"

Knowing the difference will help give your arms the freedom to naturally adjust to the force acting upon them.

Find the feeling, know the feeling, use the feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXSakFgI42o&t=9s

Moving your leg vs moving your center

Here are the last of the 16 footwork in wing chun. Remember these 3 key's to control yourself.
- Have a firm straight back. No slouching.
- Make sure your roll the hips forward. No hip thrusting
- You should feel your body weight in the center of your feet (technically, slightly in front of the center, but one thing at a time)

A good stance and Good footwork is what will separate you from the others

Find the feel, know the feel, react off of yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmniUSRPbVw&t=42s

Footwork development - part 2

Footwork is what can separate the skilled and those who need more practice. Without the skill to develop a good stance and make it mobile, you will end up muscling and pressing against the force when it contacts you.
So the importance of developing your YGKYM cannot be overstated. But the beauty of it is, it’s within all of the footwork we practice. Can you see it, but more importantly, can you feel it.

Find the feel, know the feel.

https://youtu.be/gYFaejG_sc8

Footwork development- part 1 Develop your footwork - part 1

Today’s technique will focus on the tan/pak.

In this video, I go some points to develop your motion of tan/pak.

Find the feeling, know the feeling.

https://youtu.be/xbO1CMmnBYw

Develop your tan/pak technique

The mental development in wing Chun can be challenging. Questions that you should ask yourself are;

What am I doing?
Why am I doing it?
How am I doing it?

If you can answer all of those, then you are on the path of mental development and will help you learn how to focus your technique correctly. Learning the correct focus will lead you to total body development in the big picture.

Develop the feeling, apply the feeling.

https://youtu.be/B_u6tTf_9dk

Mental focus & f**k sau

There are 8 different two armed techniques to we use to develop our body control to adjust our triangle to the incoming force.

In this video I’ve layed out a few points of how to develop the technique of gaan/jaam

Find the feeling, know the feeling, apply the feeling.

https://youtu.be/er6opBfIkyI

Develop your gaan/jaam technique

There is so much emphasis placed on arm development in wing chun. Understandably so, but to me what can really separate wing Chun are their ability to find, hold and move your center of gravity.
One of the very few talked about footwork is the 180 degree turn. In this video I introduce the basic of how it works.

Find the feel, know the feel

https://youtu.be/x9iUCmgUnxc

The 180 degree turn

In wing chun there are 8 punches. One of those is the upper cut punch. Often misunderstood from the Chum Q form, it is something that is important to be developed correctly so you can apply your power to the target.

Find the feeing, know the feeling

https://youtu.be/xtVo1dWy3r0

The wing chun uppercut