Mook, A few questions how does the grading system work in the above mentioned lineage? What's covered at each level or basic levels? Which ever is easier to answer.
Also in the technique sequences that you mentioned above what is the name of the counter pierce, parry & counter punch that is stated, in Chinese preferably? lol, I'm sorry I know I request a lot.
Unfortunately, thats one of my shortcomings I'm not really in the gig about English terminology of CMA's. So I end up having to translate everything myself.
Just curious, thanks again.
Sure Tensei , its a big curriculum so I will summarise a bit .
Grades 1 to 4 are the student grades this is where the students learn all the self defence stuff.
Levels 1 TO 6 are for Instructors these concentrate more on the refinement of movements and applications from the forms.
GRADE 1 - These are the noobs , they learn the stance , a few kicks , how to punch/ palm strike , Pak sau , simple arm and throat grab counters.
Students who pass the grading go to grade 2
GRADE 2 - Single sticking hands is introduced , start to learn to defend against punches to head , abdomen , bridging the gap is introduced , they learn to stop straight punches , learn to jam kick to groin , defend against round house kicks.
Light hand sparring from the guard is introduced WC vs WC. Attacks are random but only in a limited context such as only defending against random straight punches or random arm grabs etc
GRADE'S 3 TO 4 - Double sticking hands is introduced , chi sau sparring ,
Defending against random arm attacks or leg attacks , greater use of the legs and arms simultanously to defend and attack , some simple knife defences , club or stick defences. Lap sau and other partner drills are introduced . Grade 4s start to practice sparring against totally random arm or leg attacks or weapon.
LEVEL 1 Instructor
Chum Kiu , knees and elbow strikes , trapping , counters to trapping , chum kiu uppercut , learning applications from Chum Kiu , refinement of techniques and fine tuning.
LEVEL TWO
Bil Jee is taught , Bil jee applications such as elbow strike and sweep , and some more complex kicking counters to common kicking attacks etc.
More fine tuning in an effort to generate even more power.
LEVELS 3 TO 6 my knowledge is sketchy because I only got to level 2 which took about 8 years I think and I spent a further 2 years in level 2 for a grand total of 10 years before I a .... er left.
So levels 3 to 6 are where you learn the knives , the pole , wooden dummy a long with a lot more refinement of applications from the forms.
LEVEL 6
Is reached after about 20 years training and you are considered to be a junior master
Its also the stage where you should be able to generate massive power in attack and be effortless in your defencive techniques because by this time you are able to greater harness what we call thought force . This mysterious force is thought to be able to be directed to stabilise and energise your techniques so that there is less reliance on muscular force.
I can't give you the chinese terms for the techniques , because apart from some most of them had English names.
The counter -pierce technique is using the Tan sau pinky finger side to intercept any incoming straight punch for your head that is coming down the centreline. Intercept with the Tan sau on the pinky finger side to the outside of their arm on the wrist .
This deflects their punch off the centreline as you pierce through to their throat in one action or if you want to be less nasty you can curl your fingers back and change it to a punch.
Immediately following your strike , clear the way for a punch from your other hand by cutting down with the hand that did the Tan sau over their punching arm and hitting over the top. Junior people would do the above sequence with a pivot forward ( for the Tan sau) and a pivot back to add more oomph to both movements .
Advanced people would just step in and intercept with the Tan sau and maybe cut down and elbow strike with the other hand.
Counter punch is another technique used to defend against a straight punch. Its just using your own Wing Chun centreline punch to deflect the incoming punch off course and off the centreline.
Soon as the guy punches you throw your punch which you use to intercept on the outside of his wrist . Unlike the counter- pierce where we are using the same side arm as he is facing me , in the counter punch we are using the opposite arm so it would be my right arm to his right arm if you can understand that.
Because of our superior structure our punch will wedge his off to the side , it works better against some one punching with a conventional horizontal punch because there elbow is facing out , but will still work with a vertical fist punch.
Depending on the energy that is given to you , you may or may not be able to strike through depending on your skill level and the energy that he has given you.
But in any event after you have thrown your punch , bring your arm back into the correct angle , form a Fook Sau , hook your fingers over the top of his arm as you sink your elbow (remember to keep elbow in ).
At the same time as you sink your elbow , pivot and hit him with a horizontal palm strike in the kidneys with your other hand . The three moves at once pull him down and into the palm strike because you are using leverage on his arm that he has extended by trying to punch a hole through your head.
Whilst keeping his punching arm trapped with your Fook sau , the other hand that did the palm strike tracks up the side of his back and over his shoulder where you now cutdown on his arm as you pivot back the other way while simultaneously punching over the top with your other hand that previously trapped the arm with Fook Sau.
Advanced people would do the counter punch / cut down and palm strike with a stamp kick to the side of the knee simultaneously with the last strike or maybe an elbow strike on the end. You can step in with the above technique if you want but most of the time it is not needed because they are coming to you.
The parry is just a Pak sau and punch we use it mostly to take the front hand of a boxing type guard out of play so we can strike through to the head.
The other two techniques I described are superior to Pak sau in dealing with a straight punch because the area of coverage is greater and thus offer a greater margin for error .
But in the scenario where you are moving in to attack his guard and he launches a punch as you are moving in then you may have no choice but to use a Pak Sau to smack his punching arm.
We preferred to use it against something like a charging straight punch where we have a bit of time to react , and he is charging in from bit of a distance with a lot of momentum.
In that case we use a step 45 degrees off to the side simultaneously with the Pak sau and punch as we just nudge his arm over to the side past our head . Its important to not merely step 45 degrees to the side but also to orientate your body as you step so that you are facing his blindside .
