Day One of Project San Shou

In my humble opinion Wing Chun is a very special martial art that focuses on fighting for a self defence context. Being tired of the criticism levelled against the style of fighting that I hold true to my heart, I started an experiment to prove that the skills of Wing Chun can be transferred to any other environment of fighting.

Of course, we’ve had to make adaptations to our training and approach to fighting, but to fight in the ring you have to utilise universal fighting methods. Effectively, I’ve taken ordinary Wing Chun students and instructed them in a range of skills that require timing, distance judgement and true fighting spirit. Over a period of time they’ve learnt to kick, punch and wrestle like any other fighter, but with one difference they’ve kept the concepts of Wing Chun in the forefront of their minds.

The concept of this experiment is simple: all martial arts must have a common variable to function effectively. If we train and prepare these variables, then any Martial Art is comparable to each other.

I hope over the period of time that you’ll find this Blog informative enough to follow our progression to the final destination. We’ll share our highs and lows, good techniques, what’s worked, what hasn’t, and more importantly our eventual success in competition format.

You’ll follow the progress of Student A in his own words, and I will drop in from time to time to share my experiences on coaching Wing Chun fighters for a whole new world of combat.

So here goes the journey of a Wing Chun Fighter…

http://www.londonwingchun.co.uk./sanshou.html

Friday, 10 July 2009

An Introduction to Student A by Student A




I’ve been doing Wing Chun for over a year and it has become an integral part of my life now, I find the fighting style absolutely unique and very effective in real combat situations.

I started San Shou a month or so ago because of my love for kick boxing as a sport, I thought the training would be relatively simple compared to my Wing Chun drills but what I found is another very effective complex fighting system. Although it breaks practically every rule of Wing Chun you are literally only a step away from switching styles which can only add to confuse your opponent, add to your capabilities and self confidence.

Put it this way Wing Chun teaches close contact fighting and that puts your average opponent out of his comfort zone because most people like to be just within punching or kicking range so they have time to react ( or get out of the way) when a strike comes in their direction, But for a Wing Chun fighter who wants to be close is slightly vulnerable when trying to close that distance to effectively use his skills at close quarters, This is why I started San Shou so I am in no rush to get to Wing Chun range and am comfortable fighting from a distance if need be.

If you think San Shou is just punching and kicking you are mistaken, it is much more than that, the strikes are very effective (I know I have felt them first hand) but we practise take downs, bluffs, manipulations plus cover many different angles and options for attack and defence, a good all round defence is imperative in any confrontation, you can throw a strike at any time if you have a good defence.


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