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, 28 August 2009

Standing Clinch


We started this week with the usual warm up, some knee boxing, running and sprawling on the oncoming whizz ball (big bouncy work out ball was just too much of a mouthful) and pummelling. Pummelling basically sees two opponents in a standing clinch. Both going for simultaneous under hook, one after the other at reasonable speed.

After that we practised a hip throw. To execute you need to get to the side of your opponent with one arm round his lower back and the other monitoring his arm. From this position you step in front of him so your hips are aligned with his, then you just lean forward with a straight back and turn away slightly. This will elevate your opponents feet off the ground into the throw and ultimately on to his back. Although a good basic throw from the clinch you have to be aware of the headlock when you go in for this throw. If your opponent goes for this move when you are at his side, you can slip out the back and commence your attack from his rear.

After this we did some light sparring, I tried to work on my footwork and defence.


To round off the lesson Sifu set out two benches and we stood on them however we chose and basically had to push the opponent off, winner stays on. This is good balance practise for the tournament seeing as it’s held on a three foot raised platform and you can push your opponent off.


I really enjoyed this exercise even though I didn’t do as well as I expected. I thought about my mistakes afterwards and am keen to have another go (I think ill take my socks off next time).
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