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Teddy Atlas on Peek-a-Boo Boxing

By Steven Moody July 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

Teddy Atlas is former boxer, trainer, and over-all character.  He worked with Cus D’Amato and was there in upstate New York when Tyson trained there, until he left under somewhat mysterious circumstances.  There is a story he tells about how he held a gun to Tyson’s head.  Tyson has had various responses to that.  Whatever!  No one will know what really happened but those guys.

I do think Wing Chun fighters have something to learn from this style of fighting.  In many ways, our style is similar.  Done right, Wing Chun is aggressive, presses the action, but is also a bit of a counter-punching style (we seek the bridge).  The big flaw I see in most Wing Chun “fights” available online is the so-called Wing Chun is often  just chain-punching away without much discrimination.  Done right, a Wing Chun fighter has the man sao/wu sau out in front as a triangular guard.  Like Peek-a-Boo, we keep the elbows in.  We shuffle forward, keeping our balance, keeping structure into the ground through the back foot.  But what you often don’t see is discrimination in selecting targets.  The way demonstrates Peek-a-Boo, you see the ducking/weaving/sidestepping behavior.  Wing Chin is less active, yet we do angle for entry, angle a little back, and this is how we achieve that same goal of avoiding the incoming attacks and finding a new angle-of-attack.

But most importantly, we step in and attack but intelligently, not jumping onto the attack like a lemming.  I think Greg once advised me not to “throw yourself to your doom.”  You need to develop reflexes which will pick the timing for you.  This is why you need to train a lot!

Filed Under: Wing Chun

Greg LeBlanc: Covering a Few Points of Interest for Chi Sau

By Steven Moody January 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

Just watching Greg do Chia Sao is a lesson in itself.  Crisp, clean, automatic.   Controlling the center.  Making an angle.  Actions from the elbow.  Facing.

Loi Lau Hoi Sung, Lat Sau Jik Chung.  Receive what comes, follow what goes, upon loss of contact, attack without hesitation.  As David Peterson says, this is Wing Chun in a nutshell.

Filed Under: Wing Chun Training

Millions Offered to Beat MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong

By Steven Moody December 16, 2019 Leave a Comment

I have to admit, I find this whole story to be immensely interesting, although multi-faceted.  The more I think about it, the more complicated it seems to be.

On the one hand, you have the cut-and-dried stance of Xu Xiaodong.  Like those at Bullshido, he asserts its a simple matter of put-up or shut up.  He thinks all Traditional martial arts are nonsense and so far, he has beaten up a Tai Chi “master” and a Wing Chun “master,” both in seconds.  So, in these “contests,” he seems to have made his point.  This conflict has defintely stirred up a hornet’s nest in China.  There are reports of various types of state suppression of Xu and his ability to use social media to promote himself.  There has been speculation that the Chinese state makes a lot of money from Kung Fu tourism and Xu’s activities might be bad for business.

In a new wrinkle, a Chinese tycoon is offering a total of 10 million yuan ($US1.45 million) to anyone who can defeat Xu!  This should ensure more and higher profile events going forward.  Hopefully those challengers who come forward will be wise enough to test out their fighting prowess against some other MMA style fighters in less public arenas before going for it on camera.

What I was thinking, however, especially in the case of high-level energy practitioners of Tai Chi, etc, is I don’t really expect the baiting approach of Xu to induce them to fight.  Developing Chi is associated with Zen and other forms of training designed to raise awareness and awareness diminishes the power of the ego to control emotional centers and other behavior.  That is, a true master of Tai Chi is not likely to be too ruffled by Xu’s challenges or induced to fight by them!  So almost by definition, those who choose to step up to these challenges are having an ego-response, right?  However, with millions on the line, which could in the right hands do so much good, one wonders if this will change the minds of those who might actually be able to fight with Tai Chi or some other high-level kung fu, who possesses the highest qualities of their art (such as being able to absorb energy or “issue it”) aka fa jing.

 

Filed Under: Other Styles

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Hi. I'm Steve, a professional researcher. I started learning Wing Chun Kung Fu in 2000. Since then, I've trained with some of the best Wing Chun teachers in the world (including Greg LeBlanc and Gary Lam) and done hundreds of hours of research into fight science. This website contains the best of what I've learned. Contact: [email protected]

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