What is Chi Sao Training?

Wing chun emphasizes the concept of sticking, not only sitcking in terms of maintaining contact with the limbs but also sticking close to the opponent. During the process of either attacking or defending there are moments where the limbs of combatants make contact. Wing chun generally refers to this as a “bridge” in english but this term refers to a bridge between the two bodies. This bridge can be limb to limb or limb to body/head and happens with either party striking or with the opponent attempting to grab or “hook” onto us. Actively trying to trap an opponent is a great way to get hit and should never be the goal. We chase the body, not the hands.



Chum Kiu most often translated as “building the bridge” contains striking, blocking, linear footwork, and some other movements and concepts. Nowhere in the form is there anything which would teach the student to seek limb to limb contact. Bridging limbs is a byproduct of actively attacking and a defensive focus on simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers for counter-striking. We chase the body, not the hands.



So limb to limb contact is incidental and trapping isn’t the goal; hitting the opponent is. Whether we contact the opponent or the opponent contacts us the goal is to maneuver into a position where we can hit the opponent and the opponent is unable to retaliate during the strike. Because we are training against an actively resisting opponent any initial trap and strike will be brief as the opponent attempts to regain better position either through counter trapping, simple repositioning, or an attempt at withdrawal. Because of this reality the wing chun practitioner must be able to take the techniques they have learned and begin to apply and transition between them by feeling changes in the opponent’s positioning of body and limbs through the point(s) of contact. This shares similarities with the training of many grappling arts and many of the characteristics developed are similar. Sensitivity, refelxive responses, posture, and technical focus are a few. Chi sao gives a platform to isolate the contact portion of fighting, explore techniques, and practice implementation of concepts in a resistive environment.



What’s Wrong With Chi Sao



While chi sao can be a great training platform it does have some drawbacks which can be rather serious if not attended to. These are not faults inherent to chi sao but rather misapplication by practitioners and while this is not a complete list of all the errors people pake in chi sao hopefulyl it can help fix a few very common training mistakes.



Let’s get one thing out of the way to start: Chi sao is not sparring, and it is not a substitute for sparring. Chi sao is a training drill which accounts for the contact portion of fighting. There are other drills and training which need equal attention. All the chi sao in the world won’t save you if you can’t manage space and make contact properly because you don’t practice entry drills and actually spar.



Another common fault in chi sao training is the misapplication of competitive urges. While chi sao is a live and resistant training platform it is not a competitive platform. People still have the urge to win and to dominate yet while this is good for sparring it detracts from chi sao training. People try to weigh on their partner’s arms to try and reduce their reaction time through fatigue. People look to make contact at the expense of body position, structure, and without any regard for their ability to power or follow up that strike. Treating chi sao as a competition only helps you waste your own time.



The last issue I would hope to see rectified in many people’s chi sao is prolonged contact. You don’t have time to feel out your partner from contact when they’re trying to decapitate you with hooks and haymakers. You can’t push and pull them around for five minutes while you learn to predict their reactions and set them up for a perfect technique. Chi sao is about learning to apply from contact and that contact is incredibly brief most often. Roll once or twice and try to execute a technique.







Chi sao can be a great tool in training but it is up to every student and Sifu to make sure that it is being used as such. Preventing bad habits from entering training is important as is remembering chi sao’s place in that training.



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Golan

You may find this interesting. Israel trying to remain neutral while being humanitarian in the Syria conflict. I hear bits a tidbits abut Syria but its interesting to get first hand info like this from people actually there. Let me know what you think of it. http://ift.tt/1yja2Ai



I also find the life of Israeli settlers in the Golan to be interesting. They are still living a quiet life in spite of the nearby violence.

Karate Jutsu?

Anyone know much about karate jutsu?

found a local class that does this - says there base style is Shotokan

but they incorporate different elements into it?



thanks

andy

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Sciatic nerve pain help

Hello everyone, i'm new to the forum and i just had to ask some help from people more experienced than myself.A quick intro i did about 3 years of a form of Karate in high school and later decided to train myself in my free time for flexibility.

I use mostly the Elasticsteel streching exercises because i always wanted to be able to do the sidesplit and i train 3 times a week and so sometimes i feel a sharp pain in the sciatic nerve when i train in the left hip whenever i go into the sidesplit and i added an exercise called Ardha Matsyendrasana. Ii worked great in the beginning but now it help less and less. Does anyone recommend any tips, or what might be the problem, the pain is less if i take a couple of days of rest but i loose flexibility.

Sandbagging

How long can a person stay at the same grade (and compete at that grade) before you consider them a sandbagger?

Facts Critics and Fans get wrong about Bruce Lee

When reading a lot of threads on various subjects pertaining to how well Bruce Lee could fight, I found that for the most part you can break it down into two groups: Those who say Bruce Lee wasn't a fighter due to x or those who claim that Bruce Lee was the greatest fighter ever. In the process I found that there are flaws in the argument on both sides.



Let me start with the most common question. Did Bruce Lee ever fight in the ring? The answer is yes. Critics like to use that argument of "Where's the video of this fight (or photo)?



In fact here's an example of just this argument "No never, there is no evidence of Bruce Lee ever fighting outside of movies, including in his schools when he was teaching."



Fact: They not only found the individual who set up the boxing match between Gary Elms, but he had photos of them fighting. Why do some of his critics claim there are no evidence of Bruce Lee fighting in the ring, even though there clearly is? The answer has to do with modernization. In 1958 most people probably didn't have cameras, much less video cameras. A lot of individuals that make this argument either fail to realize this or they did not do very good research.



Now that doesn't mean the Bruce Lee fans are 100% correct either. One argument they like to make is that Bruce Lee struggled the first two rounds as he was adapting to the way western boxing was done, but easily knocked Gary Elms out in the 3rd round.



Fact: The fight was a 3 round boxing match. According to the man that sponsored the fight, Bruce Lee did not knock out Gary Elms, but rather it went the full three rounds, also he mentioned that Bruce Lee didn't struggle in the fight, but rather he stated that he doesn't think Gary Elms managed to land a single blow on him.



To be fair though this fight was not a Professional bout, but this does indeed show that Bruce Lee had at least fought in the ring.



The other popular argument for and again Bruce Lee is comments from people that knew Bruce Lee. I'm going to first look at the comments by Joe Lewis and Chuck Norris, as their names come up the most.



Critics like to point out that Joe Lewis stated that Bruce Lee wasn't a fighter.



Fact: True. Joe Lewis has stated that Bruce Lee wasn't a fighter, but thought he was a good teacher. The problem with this criticism of Bruce Lee is that it's a weak argument. For one they normally take what Joe Lewis says out of context. In fact most of the time after making these comments Joe Lewis would also say things like how he only trained with Bruce Lee 3 or 4 times and never saw Bruce Lee fight in the ring. So what is Joe Lewis really saying? Once taken in context it becomes clear that Joe Lewis is saying that he doesn't really know if Bruce Lee could fight since he doesn't have the data necessary to come to that conclusion. In other words he doesn't know.



Then there is the comment by Chuck Norris stating that Bruce Lee is the greatest non-fighter or words to that effect.



Fact: Chuck Norris did indeed make comments similar to this, but again people seem to pick and choose. The leave out the part where Chuck Norris states that Bruce Lee didn't really train to fight in the ring. Do you know what else critics like to leave out? When Chuck Norris made this comment he later on clarified by stating that although Bruce Lee didn't train to fight in the ring he still believed that he had to potential to be among the top 3 fighters in his weight division.



Now fans that doesn't mean that Bruce Lee is the greatest fighter ever. The common theme to this is many of Bruce Lee's friends and colleagues believed that Bruce Lee had the drive, skill-set, and determination to probably compete in the ring, but ultimately no one really knows how well Bruce Lee could have fared in the ring.