How many moves in your dummy form?
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wckf92
Master of Arts
Hi Yak.
Guess it depends on how one counts the movements(?) And are you counting one side only? etc?
Don't really know or care what the exact number of movements ours is, but it's the Leung Sheung version which has 10 sections, each of them being mirrored, so I guess it's probably longer than the standard which from what I understand is 108 or 116 movements over 7 sections.
Either way, the importance is in application rather than the number of moves. I'd rather learn from a teacher who had a form of 10 moves that went very deeply with them versus one who had a form of like 500 but didn't know what any of them were for.
Either way, the importance is in application rather than the number of moves. I'd rather learn from a teacher who had a form of 10 moves that went very deeply with them versus one who had a form of like 500 but didn't know what any of them were for.
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That's considered for the entire form on both sides. I have heard that you count the movements by counting the sounds
wckf92
Master of Arts
Hmmmm....kinda curious now...methinks I'll have to count the sounds of my form.
Danny T
Senior Master
Number of movements is really unimportant, what one is doing within the movement is far more so. I had to go through the form and count them. 161 - counting every movement. Just remember some moves are actually combined in application. For instance we count every bong as a separate movement when in reality the bong would simply be a transitional action into the following position. Move of a half beat motion but in the form is a single beat.
ShortBridge
3rd Black Belt
I've failed miserably at counting moves in any form, there are so many very small, but very important things, I never know what should and shouldn't count in this game.
Let's say 108
It's a good, happy answer.
Let's say 108
It's a good, happy answer.
wckf92
Master of Arts
Ok, curiosity got the best of me...just counted the "sounds"... 252
Were those all dummy sounds or were some coming from you ?
wckf92
Master of Arts
haha...no, all dummy sounds
He who denied it, supplied it.
wckf92
Master of Arts
Infinite number of moves in Pin Sun dummy! ;-) Really, there is no static form in Pin Sun. Each short set has an application on the dummy. You practice them individually over and over...repeat the section as many times as you want. Then you can blend the sections together or mix and match. In Pin Sun, once you learn the movement in the short sets well you are encouraged to "free-lance" on the dummy. So in Pin Sun, using the dummy is very much like shadowboxing.
futsaowingchun
Black Belt
I'm not sure how many movements are in my dummy form..I've never count it but the form itself is broken into 10 sections. ..originally there was 12 when I learnt it but I took out two sections.as I feel it was to repetitive.
Danny T
Senior Master
Know Form, Understand Form, Move beyond Form. Should be applied to all form/s.
wckf92
Master of Arts
Agreed! That is the journey.... but Yak was asking about how many moves or sounds so ....
Danny T
Senior Master
"so..."
Uh... I responded in post # 7 about the count we do in the branch I train.
In this particular post I was agreeing with KPM and geezer with their posts #14 & #15.
