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

Sunday, 27 September 2009

This Week we Focused on Wrestling and Throws

This week we focused on wrestling and throws. We went through the hip throw, Uchi Mata, and Tai Otoshi first.

Then Sifu Mark demonstrated a simple San Da takedown, Basically when your going in for the clinch you aim to wrap your arm around your opponents arm, grab the back of the neck with your other hand, twist, pull your opponent towards you, then sweep the leg as your opponent is pulled forward.


Another take down involves going for the Wrestling double leg (this is usually best off a jab or a hand in the face) lifting your opponent up over your shoulder, then swivel your opponent and slam them to the ground.


The next takedown Sifu Mark demonstrated is good when your in close but not quite in the clinch. You, for instance grab your opponents right wrist with your left hand, then stepping in so your right foot goes in-between theirs, whilst thrusting your right arm (at a 45 degree angle) under your opponents right armpit. You then bring your feet together so you are standing in front of your opponent with a hold on his right arm, then drop to your knees and turn to the left pulling your opponent over your shoulder and on to the floor.


You have to be quick because, lets face it who wants to be standing with your back to your opponent for more than half a second. It is however a good and unexpected move also a way to throw an opponent too heavy to lift.


We ended with some light sparring and I managed to get this move off, it felt good, an enjoyable lesson its always good to learn something new.


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