Greetings all!
After a long hiatus from training, I finally found a Wing Chun school to attend here in Japan. I made it out to a class and, while quite rusty, still have the fundamentals down. However, I immediately noticed a number of my bad habits that I had previously come out while rolling, and there is one particular position that some how I always wind up in and don't know how to avoid.
Let's say you're rolling. Your left hand is inside (bong/tan) and your right hand is outside (fok sao).
I notice that, often times, my opponent will put pressure on my bong sao such that my position weakens, either due to my bong becoming tired, or just because he intentionally brought it down to create an opening. When this happens, generally I find myself in a low bong (dai bong) with my left hand, and perhaps shifting slightly to the right. Mean while, my opponent opens my fok sao up with a tan-sao, especially if I was forced to shift right to maintain what little is left of my bong sao. In this position, he can essentially either come in with a low punch, collapsing my weak bong sao, or a high palm, as my fok sao has also been compromised. This is a lose-lose situation that I can't seem to prevent, recover from, or counter.
Some counters that I have tried are to hyun and go around, changing to the outside on my bong, or the inside on my fok sao, or trying to change my bong into a fak sao and slip onto the top while maintaining contact. But, most of the time this is all impossible if the opponent is sticking with good forward intent, making it impossible to disengage without getting hit.
When your bong is collapsing, and the force is too much, but you can't disengage/hyun to the outside, and you also aren't in the position to disengage your other hand for a technique like lop sao, what can you do?
Of course, I guess if I had a better bong sao, perhaps I could somehow prevent this, but I have a suspicion that if someone really wants to, they can take your bong-sao down and create an opening, and you just need to know how to respond effectively in some manner which I haven't yet figured out.
After a long hiatus from training, I finally found a Wing Chun school to attend here in Japan. I made it out to a class and, while quite rusty, still have the fundamentals down. However, I immediately noticed a number of my bad habits that I had previously come out while rolling, and there is one particular position that some how I always wind up in and don't know how to avoid.
Let's say you're rolling. Your left hand is inside (bong/tan) and your right hand is outside (fok sao).
I notice that, often times, my opponent will put pressure on my bong sao such that my position weakens, either due to my bong becoming tired, or just because he intentionally brought it down to create an opening. When this happens, generally I find myself in a low bong (dai bong) with my left hand, and perhaps shifting slightly to the right. Mean while, my opponent opens my fok sao up with a tan-sao, especially if I was forced to shift right to maintain what little is left of my bong sao. In this position, he can essentially either come in with a low punch, collapsing my weak bong sao, or a high palm, as my fok sao has also been compromised. This is a lose-lose situation that I can't seem to prevent, recover from, or counter.
Some counters that I have tried are to hyun and go around, changing to the outside on my bong, or the inside on my fok sao, or trying to change my bong into a fak sao and slip onto the top while maintaining contact. But, most of the time this is all impossible if the opponent is sticking with good forward intent, making it impossible to disengage without getting hit.
When your bong is collapsing, and the force is too much, but you can't disengage/hyun to the outside, and you also aren't in the position to disengage your other hand for a technique like lop sao, what can you do?
Of course, I guess if I had a better bong sao, perhaps I could somehow prevent this, but I have a suspicion that if someone really wants to, they can take your bong-sao down and create an opening, and you just need to know how to respond effectively in some manner which I haven't yet figured out.
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