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In Chuck’s own words this DVD aims to build on the Chi Sau 1: Foundations DVD and advance your training. During the DVD you will be introduced to eight traditional Chi Sau techniques. These techniques will give you options to counter various types of attack
movements and help to create attacks or counter attacks.
From a Foshan origin to an international audience, Ip Ching covers the Wing Chun system in a filmed archive seminar. This presentation takes place in his early years of dedicating a full-time schedule to promoting and teaching the fighting art, and he’s accompanied by Sam Chan for demonstration and translation.
The DVD is raw footage, with some equally raw post-mixed audio translation to suit, which will definitely grab the viewer’s attention. The DVD has been transferred from VHS to digital footage with good resolution.
Reactivating Your Joints for Great Chi Sao is Sifu Fernandez’s 27th Wing Chun University Lesson. Limber up to get ready for a lesson on loosening up as Sifu Fernandez takes a look at not only having proactive, but reactive reflexes to help one unlock Chi Sao’s potential. That sometimes what’s being blocked is not your training partner’s or opponent’s attacks as is the limited reaction of to how to respond to being tied up in the traffic jams of arms and positions of engagement. “How many times do you feel this way and don’t know what to do about it?” he asks. It should be noted that Sifu Fernandez also embraces the potential of digital downloading, as this video presentation comes with the original 2013 piece together with an updated 2014 module.
One of the great features of living in today’s age of technology and virtually immediate information exchange is that it gives us the ability to update and add to that information without reproduction. Sifu Fernandez’s Multiple Opponents module takes full advantage, as part of a digital download product with updated seminar footage addressing the subject matter in this presentation that spans over two years. Six chapters, focusing on everyday domestic experiences and the growing trend of swarming attackers, based on his experiences of working nights in the club/bar industry.
Going back to the roots of Wing Chun’s propagation in Hong Kong, Sifu Lee Man Hung presents the “Traditional Wooden Dummy” in a way that some would loosely define as “Hong Kong style”. This video production offers a no frills, concise,and direct approach to performing and teaching the Wooden Dummy in a seminar lecture format with the viewer’s perspective aimed at being part of the attending audience. Virtually every minute of this volume provides demonstrations and information for its 80-minute run time in his native Cantonese with supporting English subtitles.
This set is the first of a complete home study course. The course is designed for those who live in an area that offers no Wing Chun classes and who would like to learn in the privacy of their own home. The course is delivered in the same order just like if you were being taught in a class. Now, it’s not down to me to argue whether this kind of training can be beneficial but to review the content and how it is delivered.
The Baat Cham Dao (Eight Point Slashing Swords) were once considered to be a learned form of the Wing Chun system awarded to those who demonstrated unconditional commitment, work ethic, skill and understanding of the system. Only when those qualities had been attained would the presiding Sifu then award the student with learning this second of two weapons forms.