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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Monday, 31 August 2009

Another Packed San Sou Kickboxing Class


Another packed San Sou (Kickboxing) class, tonight there were all shapes and sizes, like I say 'the more the merrier' Sifu put us through our paces and after we were warmed up and a bit of knee boxing we practised the two throws we were introduced to last week. I haven't been practising them but I felt alot more efficient doing them,I upped the pace a bit and they were coming off nice.

We then went on to a combo that involved a couple of elbows, those who read last weeks blog would of noticed that I mentioned we are discouraged from the use of elbows in Wing Chun, I feel i should explain myself here elbows are discouraged in the beginner and intermediate class because of lack of experience means more chance of misjudging it, but in the advance stage of training elbows are very much a factor of Wing Chun, in fact an elbow strike is the Wing Chun equivalent of a hook, so i apologise for not explaining myself in more detail before. Anyway the combo starts with a jab, as soon as the jab connects you thrust the elbow forward and strike to side of the head (bang! Two strikes in one go!) Then the other elbow comes over the top and preferably strikes the bridge of the nose, but lets face it if it connects anywhere its going to do serious damage.


One important thing to remember when throwing that second elbow is to pivot on the ball of your back foot and achieve the right posture, like i said its the same body mechanics as throwing a hook.


I need to practise this at home its a good close contact strike and the potential impact, I have no doubt in my mind would stop a fighter in their tracks.

We ended the class with some sparring.

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