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…

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Friday, 10 July 2009

Week One of Project San Shou: Basic Boxing Training


This is the first instalment of my weekly san shou blog; I’ve never written a diary before so this is new too me, what the heck here goes.

I haven’t been training much the last two weeks due too injuries resulting from a bit of over enthusiastic sparring with a good friend of mine, so tonight was hard work.

This week we covered counter punching, the counter is in my opinion one of the most effective ways of breaking through your opponents guard, not only does it have one of the highest KO rates of any punch (because its unexpected) but psychologically it destroys their will, think about it, if every time you attack your opponent you miss and get hit what are you going to do?

You will cease your attack, mentally at this point you have lost the fight.
The drills we practised included a 1-2 one low one high defending against a haymaker, this is done by bending at the knees to duck the incoming punch whilst hooking to the body with the opposite fist (making sure its coming off the back leg) then upon rising using a straight with the other fist(or a hook) to the side of the head, this can be followed up with a swift roundhouse kick to the front of the legs, midriff or groin, bending at the knee if distance is an issue.
The second defends against a jab, this is done by stepping back when the jab is thrown thus avoiding it ( this can be accompanied with a slight parry) then as it is retracted quickly step back in sticking to the wrist then snap out a jab of your own, this works best on the outside gate.
After practising these drills we split into two groups then one at a time tried to apply them into free sparring, I felt this worked well because not only could we watch each other, there was a lot more room too (plus a well appreciated breather for those of us who have been neglecting our fitness)

It was a good lesson and these techniques if applied correctly are very effective bread and butter moves.
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