mook jong man
Senior Master
I don't know about the rest of you in the Wing Chun / Wing Tsun clan , but i get pretty sick of people who know nothing about it saying that we have no power in our strikes and we do " patty cake punches and slaps " .
Try as you might you cannot get it throught to these people that our power comes from our stance . This is a demo from my old school in the last bit you see Sigung standing on scales and a bloke is trying to push him over , they checked the scales when he first got on and he was 60 kg .
As the bloke is pushing , Sigung's weight is increasing because he is transferring the blokes weight down into his stance thus making his own structure stronger . As an aside i once asked Sifu Jim to do a double palm strike on me with no pad at very close range so i could see what it felt like , well it felt like i got hit by a truck and i asked him how much power did he just use on me and he said about 5 percent .
The point is we can generate a lot of power in Wing Chun / Wing Tsun it just takes longer to develop and because our force is not dependent on muscular strength we can keep on increasing our power well into very old age . ( Sigung is in his mid 70s now i believe )
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