Wing Chun's footwork and mobility

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8 жыл бұрын

www.mindfulwingchun.online
Discussing how to move in Wing Chun in relation to our footwork. Good for all Martial Arts / Kung Fu practitioners to try out ! Note, the exercise in this video is NOT for self defense and it's a simple test for being able to naturally move the body back and forth.
*A note about this channel the lineage:
Sifu Nima King is the owner and team leader of Mindful Wing Chun, a CST Wing Chun school in Hong Kong with affiliations around the world. Mindful Wing Chun is wholeheartedly dedicated to passing on the internal wing chun method as passed down by Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin who was the longest serving student of Grandmaster Ip Man. Chu Shong Tin lived with Ip Man for 5 years (1950-1955) and was coined the title ' the king of siu nim tao' by his master Ip Man.
He was a legend in the world of Wing Chun (in particular the internal method of wing chun) and spent 64years passing it on full-time before he passed away in 2014. Nim King practiced under hin in Hong Kong for 9 years and established Mindful Wing Chun under CST's guidance. Nima is also on the board of Directors for the 'Chu Shong Tin Alumni' which is a group of senior students of CST that were hand picked by him to establish the Alumni and to uphold and continue his teachings and Wing Chun legacy after he passed away.
Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin was a very humble and low-key Wing Chun Master therefore its only after we began putting his videos online, that people started to hear about him. In fact, majority of the main Wing CHun teachers (of the Ip Man lineage) who began practice in the 50s and early 60s (apart of Leung Sheung and Lok Yiu) were trained by CST even-though they were Ip Man's students. This is due to CST being the most snr and main teacher of Ip Man's school in those days.
Nima was lucky to start his practice under CST in 2005 because that's when CST decided to change his teaching to all internal practice so that he can pass on "Nim Tao' and 'Nim Lik' (the mind power/energy cultivated through internal Wing Chun practice) to his students.
Nima, even though a non-chinese and much younger than the other students of CST, attained a high level of these final teachings. He now mainly teaches the seniors within this lineage and also travels around giving workshops and is working on an online program so that master CST's teaching can have a greater reach.
You may contact Nima/Mindful Wing Chun through:
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Long live the genuine and internal art of Wing Chun / Ving Tsun!
Mindful Wing Chun - Chu Shong Tin (Ip Man) Wing Chun / Ving Tsun - Hong Kong

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@kingkong905 7 жыл бұрын

Love how you explained why we don't need footwork in Wing Chun and how it's more important to use your center of mass which i agree with. The more you move around, the more chances your opponent has of knocking you off balance which is critical in Wing Chun. It doesn't take much to get out of an opponent's striking range.

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing Isaiah and glad you agree with what I mentioned here. And once we have an idea and control of our Center of Mass, then through Chisau, Dummy and Sparring we then learn the best 'footwork' for application accordingly...

@johnrogers4983 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nima for that great piece of knowledge!

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure John! Hope all is well with you and yours

@josephquintana5585 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome, I'll be making my way out there to train this year!!

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

Always welcome here in Hong Kong mate. Unfortunately right now its the strictest place in the world re covid and travel rules but am sure in the next year or 2 it'll be sorted. Very much looking forward to life going back to normal so we can welcome many people to our school like the pre-covid days :)

@KingDariusMartial-dc2nr 9 ай бұрын

Hi Joseph, Im new in Wing Chun. Did you got the chance to train there? I'm contemplating of visiting there, would like to ask some advice.

@S4CHANTRUTH 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful Explanations!

@MindfulWingChun 4 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@jatinmogha9377 7 жыл бұрын

Beautifully explained !!

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

Thank very much Jatin :)

@ReceivingLightweb 7 жыл бұрын

14:49 best training on this video. Talking about moving the weight of the center not the legs and so on.

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Brian, glad it was helpful!

@spawn314159 7 жыл бұрын

few reasons for goat clamping stance: in training, as a stretching exersise opens the sacrum and once it opens enough, you're able to sink a bit and the reason why you need to sink that little bit is it changes the mode of operation of our body, alters it so that we move like an animal directing movments from sacrum, this is important because your legs are different length, your hips are different shapes, and your structure is optimised and has imballances,... when you sink, all those imballances are removed because you're floating and able to gimble from sacrum.. what makes stance strong is tai gong, (mula bandha) this pulls our hip structure inwards and supports our piillars (legs), when you got the right tension from hips and tai gong, there is unity and the stance becomes singular ralther than two legs feeling.. much horse stance and circile walking to train this.. also horse stance bumping and so on :-)

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing man..

@wingchunscience5895 8 жыл бұрын

Wing Chun has a lateral stance whereas boxing has a front-back stance. There are advantages and disadvantages of the two different systems. For the lateral stance, it is faster to move sideways (say to the blind side of your opponent) and to shift. For the front-back stance, it is faster to move forward and backward. The lateral stance has two "small" blind sides which are easier to recover. The front-back stance has one "large" blind side which is difficult to recover. The way that the front-back stance generates power is like that in badminton. The way that the lateral stance generates power is like that in tennis (but for the swinging). There are ways to move very quickly in Wing Chun (going to the blind side of a front-back stance opponent) allowing the body to recover to the lateral stance very quickly, without destroying its structure. You just need to practice. Quick footwork is becoming more and more important; just look at how Dominic Cruz fights. Quick footwork is a must against BJJ and wrestling, too. I don't mean we should imitate Dominic Cruz cause Wing Chun is a very different system.

@MindfulWingChun 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is absolutely true if we are only discussing the external shape and positioning of the different types of stance. What I was explaining here is beyond the external positioning but we can only understand this once we can actually feel and move from our center of mass.

@wingchunscience5895 8 жыл бұрын

Mindful Wing Chun I understand what you mean. I played a lot of badminton (and some tennis) when I was young. To me the moving and recovering of my center of gravity is sort of "native" . I can do a biu ma (quick jun ma) to the opponent's blind side and recover to the yi ji kam yeung ma almost immediately and then do a straight punch right after. In the future, I believe this is the only way for any Wing Chun practitioner to counter other more agile martial arts.

@KingDariusMartial-dc2nr 9 ай бұрын

Does badminton help with practicing foot work for Wing Chun? been thinking of learning something new to supplement my training. @@wingchunscience5895

@jonathanfam2683 8 жыл бұрын

so much insight...

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Jonathan. Happy you found it insightful

@nickdobrov 8 жыл бұрын

This video addresses the "battle" of concepts. To move like boxers (push off one leg or another), or move the center of mass. Now, theoretically, I agreed that moving center of mass is obviously better. But...Can you do a video of maybe shadowboxing (or just moving fast, changing directions, angles)?

@MindfulWingChun 8 жыл бұрын

+nickdobrov that's a great idea for a video!

@CaptainCassos 7 жыл бұрын

The two videos are complementary, not divided.

@kevingray4980 2 ай бұрын

Forgive me, but it seems like you're describing a commonly understood principle in a way that reinforces a dangerous misconception: that we don't need to dedicate much training to our movement. For myself, I'd throw away the wooden dummy before the plum blossom. If you can navigate the fight expertly, mediocre form through the hands is more than enough. But no level of static mastery will work against any style of polished footwork.

@perrypelican9476 4 жыл бұрын

Do you video yourself training? If you documented your own growth and advancement with video, it might be motivating for students or anyone interested or more Importantly for yourself. I know it means a huge number of files and physical drive space. But imagine if you could see yourself training 18 months ago and connect with that Tuesday in September when you had that epiphany. At the same time you could document with daily journal entries to help remember where you were at on each day. I am much older than you are and it's much too late for me to catch up, so I am excited watching you advance, like a parent through a son or daughter. I went through that with my son playing sports at a high level. I taught him squash and he went on to quickly destroying me on court and got into a great university because of his squash ability. Sorry for digressing so much. I really feel your videos. You are so clearly real and honest. I have been thinking of creating a KZfaq channel called No Bull that would strictly feature only honest and sensitive teaching from open, honest and sensitive people striving to better themselves and others. There is so much bull on KZfaq that it blows my mind. It seems that the more bull you show, the more successful is the channel. There is one martial arts channel where the guy is in shape and shows his kind of Kung fu and fighting styles and acts like he is very knowledgeable but he clearly is a beginner who just uses well known catch phrases to make him sound advanced. A lot of the comments he gets laugh at him for being a phony but he's to gets millions of views and has over 1 million subscribers. Many comments are about being motivated and learning so much. It's all bull. The world is becoming educated by so much bull. People are so easily impressed, and take KZfaq info as the gospel. I have spoken with young people who cite what they heard from ridiculous youtubers as truth. It's crazy but it explains why the world is such a mess. Since most people are not geniuses, their base of knowledge is deeply flawed and filled with bull. It's very sad and dangerous. Those people vote and influence laws and decisions on how our society is run. People who learn from KZfaq videos! I am truly afraid for coming generations who parents got their knowledge and wisdom from watching bull on KZfaq and learned how to communicate using text messaging. What could be a worse way to communicate? Many of their good friends are people they never met in person. Scary.

@MindfulWingChun 4 жыл бұрын

Yes I do document my own training. Actually there is many hours of it on our online school. And yeah I agree about taking things they see on the internet as gospel. I guess that's the thing about the internet as its a double edged sword. A lot of positives can come out of it but its balanced with all the potential negatives that it can create

@robbanbobban2 7 жыл бұрын

You mention Tei Gong many times during the video. Are you referring to moving awareness to your pelvic floor and thus to your center of mass?

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

Dude I. so sorry for such a late reply. I missed it somehow. Taigung is the activation of the very deep core muscles couples with the intention of a flow rising up in the spine. This unifies the upper and lower halves of the body and helps to better find your balance. Then in Chum Kiu we begin to retain this inter-connected state as we move the body and that is when we can really start to feel and utilize the Center of Mass

@nomassbitches4562 5 жыл бұрын

I was never thought a back step..

@MindfulWingChun 5 жыл бұрын

Just wanna highlight that we would not do this in a fight. this was an exercise for balance and moving the body from the center of gravity.

@ivanjiang2699 7 жыл бұрын

詠春正身斜馬就可以好靈活啦！

@MindfulWingChun 2 жыл бұрын

definitely, it can be very fast indeed... Just requires thge right training and understanding.

@workdays8280 Жыл бұрын

Great WC . But U cannot put your arm on a boxer arm and do the cut down .it's like impossible. But hay great understanding

@MindfulWingChun Жыл бұрын

lol, you sure do spend a lot of time watching every single video on this channel and comment on them. tapping on the keyboard wont lead to growth in this case

@bobbymagii6601 6 ай бұрын

Sure love to talk a lot and theorize. Do you ever do anything that actually works and is obvious to someone not induced into a state of uhhuh from all the talk?…sounds good…. Buuuut!?

@MindfulWingChun 4 ай бұрын

not sure I get what you mean. Have you looked at any of the other videos on this channel?

@jorgeabarboza5461 6 жыл бұрын

talk too much

@MindfulWingChun 6 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. Long videos with tons of explanations aren't for everyone but for those who follow this channel and the CST method of Wing Chun 99% of them always leave grateful comments. Sounds like this method may not be for you brother...

@nickpaxinos141 4 жыл бұрын

Twat