After studying chow gar tong long i have felt this power, it is so shocking it's hard to describe, it scatters your energy, intent and in a lot if cases makes you feel physically ill....oh and bloody hurts

You go backwards but your partner goes even way further backwards, lol! Ever evolving! Great stuff Adam!

great stuff sir ,been studying wing chun/ trapping hands for a long time and great explanation of spine and wave power .

I practice white eyebrow and this is a good demonstration of tan to. technically you're not going backwards, but sinking your waist, pulling in your buttocks and concaving your back. You're going back only in the sense it's like you're slumping into an armchair and the midpoint of your back is extending backward. Essentially you're tightening your structure in such a way that you're generating force off the ground. In any event, adam performs this better than a lot of pak mei practitioners

Awesome!

You are amazing Sifu.

So much knowledge .brilliant

Very good explanation of power short power

One of the best teachers

Great example of explosive power

great video sifu

Been wanting to enroll in wing chun classes especially seeing your teachings. It’s quite impossible to find a sifu here in my country, Philippines. Ended up having to do self study instead.

Nice video, good to see someone fighting off the clinch, rather than just accepting it. Short power is overlooked in my opinion, probably because it got relegated to parlour trick by some. Just a good reuse of the onboard power engine.

this guy knows his shit

Great

It can also be found in Yau Kun Mun and Bak Mei as well.

in tai chi or bagua even, we do single push hands with a partner to develop internal power for strikes. i was wondering if there is an exercise i can do to develope this power if i dont have a partner. great videos by the way.

Really enjoy your videos because you talk about the technical, tactical and scientific principles of the art. I am currently training in Mantis. Question how would you describe the force? Similar to the exhaust of a rocket in that its also pushing backwards?

Sifu the power could also be issued by spine coiling backwards too right? What I mean is you are showing power whilst going from swallow to spit but you could do it in reverse?

I love these explanations but would really like to see it in a sparring setting. Under pressure.

Great video ... I feel like Wing Chun was made to be understood with Shaolin as a counterpoint ... What if we were in this range? What if we stuck? What if this was linear? But that's expressing knowledge of Shaolin to even think that in the first place. The greatness of Kung Fu is it's creativity, yet it stays practical in nature ... So it's more creative than muy Thai which is practical but it's more practical than creative arts like systema or capoeira, far more practical you get a lot of very practical ranges and movements. I use my wing Chun with Shaolin and kickboxing jkd at all times but my opinion is you learn wing Chun by itself not because it's the be all end all but to actually learn wing Chun. When you are using Shaolin and wing Chun together I love that ... And then use them together as kickboxing. But really I just love to use Shaolin with wing Chun. Wiing Chun was made with full acknowledgement and awareness of Shaolin. Then I use those two with kickboxing patterns as well, so now it's just a whole lot of really practical thinking and lines. But Shaolin and wing Chun are totally different, yet made to ... Shaolin was made to be improved by learning wing Chun. It just is. It gets so much better. But wing Chun is rounded out by the inclusive Shaolin.

Hey I never see that guy anymore, what happened to him?

Most unique (for me) and important thing is at 0:37 This "cat move" with your spine.

Actually it is what WC is all about but has been interpreted differently by many. How else can one generate power at close quarters. Thx sifu Adam.

Lots of chum kiu energetics here , a lot of Sil Lim Tao as well

We have the same thing in Chen Taiiji.

We do that same movement at the end of each wooden dummy set in our lineage..

Hakka arts!! Southern Praying Mantis? 😁

Would love to see some sparring.

Bak mei, Dragon back

Uses style: "I've never trained in those styles." lol

Hahaha haha 😂

It is valid as a practise. But it will fall apart against a non compliant individual. Extremely if the individual has put time into a sport based style like Muay Thai. I understand the mechanics and yes it's true, but if you spend x amount of time to get it to work and person b spends x amount of time training in athletics, jumping rope and being trained correctly in Muay Thai or Lethwei, you can not compare the end resulting. We have a limited amount of time to train. Now if you enter into practice that skill fully aware that the outcome will be less useable than the guy who trains in Muay Thai the same amount of time, then it's okay. Because it's not fighting, it's health. Like yoga or Tai chi.

"Let's see you do that in the Ring though." I'm not going to use it in the Ring. I don't have any UFC or MMA fantasies. Those Fighters Sacrifice a lot, not everyone can be like them, you want to be a UFC fighter go to their training camp, why go to a Wing Chun school and disrespect it? It doesn't work for those who have Rocky Fantasies, Wing Chun is for the Streets. Soo tired of MMA people who don't know a thing about Traditional arts dog them.

Where can we see you go against actual resistance and not guys who flop the second you touch them.

Not Wing Chun, this is Bollocks! He knocks his left hand down, just palm strike the idiot in the face with your right hand. So much wrong with this.