Wing Chun – Don’t Pull Back Keep Constant Forward Pressure – Kung Fu Report #325

Today we talk about using the concept of Lat Sau Jik Chung, which is further illustrated as a concept in the Wooden Dummy form. The idea is not to pull your hands back when doing follow-ups as you would be breaking this major Wing Chun concept of constant forward pressure.

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You can start playing or being free flow with the fingers. Chris blocks again, there’s the finger strike He blocks again, there’s the finger strike So the finger strikes are everywhere. Or you can work it off with punching real quick. He punches or something.

Look, there’s your finger strike like that Hi guys, welcome to this episode of Kung Fu Report, where we talk about classical Kung Fu and its application. Today we’re gonna look at this sequence of movement in the Wooden Dummy form. It’s often heavily misinterpreted,

because it’s actually not a sequence of movement but principle-based learning. Okay, see you when we get back. Chris here, please come in. So this idea of the low bong sau to a high tan sau, and then the wang zhou, right? Sometimes it’s taken too literally.

Like if I end up in a low position, for some reason I’m in a bong sau, Chris punches high, and then I tan sau, and then palm strike. That’s actually violating a major Wing Chun principle, and that is to block and hit at the

same time. Because in the same situation if I was here why would I, if he punches, block and then hit? That’s taking way too long. If my hand was down here, and he punches high, I should be going away straight in.

I shouldn’t mess around with blocking and then hitting, ’cause my hands are already low and wide open. Even if I had to do a slower movement, it should still be an aggressive movement. Capitalizing on the Wing Chun idea of Lat Sau Jik Chung,

which means constant foreward pressure. If he was hitting low and I was here, he hits high, my hand should come forward right away. To slow down, if I was here, as soon as he disengages, I’m going, putting pressure right straight into him.

And then now it compromise his balance. So you can’t take this movement too literally. This idea is actually trying to teach you, wherever your hand is, you should hit, to use the closest weapon to the nearest target, which means this idea can be applied

to any Wing Chun hands. I don’t have time to go over all of it, so I’ll give you a couple examples. If Chris throws a swing, for example, and I do this, even though it might look flashy, that’s considered wrong in Wing Chun.

For the simple reason, when I was here, I pulled my hand back first and then I hit What that means is, if Chris wasn’t being nice and he striked with the other hand after he swings, when I pull back, I’m gonna get hit as well

‘Cause one beats two. I’m doing two motions. But if he tries that again, and I don’t pull my hand back, now he doesn’t have time, even though I was moving slow. Because when I was here, my hand here,

went directly from point A to point B, instead of pulling back. That’s covering in the horizontal plane in the second form of Wing Chun, Chum Kil This idea, right? So you go directly from where you are. It’s the same as if he’s giving me a

certain punch, like in the Jang Tao, right? He hits with the other one, I’m gonna get hit too. Because I’m pulling my hand back. Again, the same principle is, wherever my hand is, it should just shoot straight forward.

If he tries to throw two punches at the other hand, my hand’s over there. Because right from here, when he hits, this hand hits. Now, whatever he does with this hand, he’s only functioning at half speed. Because as soon as he gets head trauma,

when his brain shakes, it slows down. Right? Or it could be a low shot. If he gets low, he hits with the other one, I’m gonna get hit if I pull my hand back. So this idea of pulling my hand back,

just to look good, is not that smart. Instead, I should punch from wherever my hand is. So if he strikes twice, he doesn’t have time. If he strikes with the other one, he doesn’t have time, because he can’t even see the shot coming.

If he strikes with that one, right? He can’t see it. Even though I’m going very light, it disrupts his energy. He can also be in a high line. If he hits low and hit high real fast, because he doesn’t have time.

Because right from here, he can’t see this, and he has trouble. And I was being nice doing this, in reality, when he used the ginger fist from the third form, which would hurt him. Or it could be a basic warm-up exercise,

like a Pak Sau. If I was here, and Chris hit with the other one, I’m gonna get hit, because I’m pulling my hand back. I should be hitting from wherever my hand is, and he can take a little shot.

For example, if I was here, Chris hits. He doesn’t have time, because right from here, when he hits, this hand goes, which is capitalizing on this idea in Sil Lim Tau. Again, reviewing the wooden dummy. So it could also be, he does that again,

but here, he hits the back one, I take his elbow. Now he can’t, if he hits again, go ahead, hit again. My hand is already there, right? So, this idea in the wooden dummy is really important. Talk about this a bit more when we get

back. Thanks, Chris. All right, guys, thank you for watching this short demo. If you’re interested in learning how to train this progressively, in a step-by-step manner, we have a training course in adamchankungfu.com. So, instead of just watching the motion,

you gotta learn how to actually digest the principle, and learning actually how to do this. So, see you there. But one more thing before we go, I wanna say is, when you do the sequences like this, right? All of them are principle-based,

and understanding the principle intellectually is fun, but what you gotta do is take your time, and take that principle, and actually program it into your synapses so you never have to think about it again Sort of second nature.

And you gotta do this, like what we did today for every single Wing Chun technique, not just the couple of them that I did today So, for every Wing Chun hand, you should learn how to go forward without pulling your hand back, for every single technique.

To just say, “Oh, I understand the principle.” It won’t come alive. You have to put in the work, right? So, anyways, see you next time. Train hard, guys, and stay safe.