WCI Review - Randy Williams - Wing Chun Gung Fu Basics Part 1: Structure and Footwork

The moment a person hears the word "basics" their immediate perception is that the subject must be elementary, boring, and look beyond to what they perceive to be "high skill" techniques to aspire to. However, for one to unlock their potential with the system is to develop thorough fundamental understanding and practice of the basics as they are the foundations that all skills are built upon. Any weaknesses in those fundamentals will result in structural failure.

Sifu Randy Williams lays the foundations for the practitioner to build their structure with footwork to bring life to those elements in this video, which is one of his older submissions, that has been converted to digital format in a concise and energetic 45-minute reel.

"Blocks, strikes, basic footwork and basic kicking," will be the topics covered, as prefaced by Sifu Williams in his opening remarks. "Just because it may look a little different from what you're doing or have seen someone else do… (doesn't matter) if it's logical and it works," he states to invite the viewer to extract his offerings as it best relates to them.

Like all beginners, the first training instruction focuses on the Yi Ji Kim Yeung Ma in exploring its structure, alignment and posture. With that basic element in place is the introduction of the "Yut" Jee Choong Kuen or, as it is more popularly known, the Vertical Fist, and how it is employed from a square facing position and when pivoting. Sifu Williams then introduces the eight punches that evolve from the fundamental one such as the Raising Punch, the inside and outside Whip Punch, Hammer Fist, the Phoenix Eye Punch, Ginger Fist, Drilling Punch, Diagonal Punch, the Inside Diagonal Punch, and finally the Downward Punch complemented with the array of palm and elbow strikes to round out the arsenal of weapons at one's manual capacities.

The instruction evolves with coordination, with blocking actions such as Pak, Bong, Tan, Lan, et al with the support of a demonstration partner in the form of partner drills. Throughout the practice with the training partner, the instructor expands on the relative techniques played as they correspond to range and lines of attack as well as imparting fighting application concepts to support their application beyond an, "If you do this, I do that" pitfall when applying one's self outside the security of the training environment.

Going back to the base, the expanse of stance positions and footwork take position to heighten the dynamic of the hand techniques. Flowing in form, the video moves to engage and disengage the training partner to defeat the would-be attacker with the shared tools working cohesively together.

Putting his best footwork forward, Sifu Randy Williams presents in less than hour, countless hours of practice that would be required to be a proficient Wing Chun practitioner that prove effective not only in combat but in proving that basic does not mean elementary but fundamentally essential in providing a platform for exponential potential.

Randy Williams - Wing Chun Gung Fu Basics Part 1: Structure and Footwork
Language: English
Running Time: Approx. 55 min.
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