WCI Review - Sifu Taner & Graziano - Lat Sao for Student Degree 4
Back in the virtual Kwoon to get things rolling with Sifus Taner and Graziano taking a closer look at the constructs, concepts and practice of Lat Sao. With this recent instalment to their vast library of instructional videos, the good friends' evolution as practitioners and video producers is on display with a well shot, edited and presented offering from studio to student specifically addressing students of their Wing Tjun branch with fighting concepts and engagements that complement the keen aficionado's desire to immerse themselves in all things relative to the system despite how one's lineage spells it.
Sifus Taner and Graziano work a range of engagement popularly known in Boxing as fighting in the pocket. From the get-go, the teaching and training partners waive any prefacing dialogue to bridge the gap and focus your attention on creating opportunities from positions of high risk and vulnerability to a would-be attacker with purpose and power. The first range of engagement is at very close range where Sifu Taner highlights the activation of the hip and the mechanics and concepts that support it to facilitate short-range weapons such as elbow strikes and punches while maintaining balance and focus on the engagement.
Breaking out of the staple partner training method of Chi Sau to activate the trained techniques that one has proficiently developed from their "Sticky Hands" drills to antagonise each other, and the viewing audience's practice, the two work that critical zone with conviction. Communicating the sense of urgency to employ the appropriate counteractions or be a victim to them themselves.
Chi Gerk takes centre stage as an added element of engagement to expand the tools that can be used in both block and attack. Leg sweeps, knee strikes, and short-range kicks as both attack and react sequences are presented to connect the arms, hips and legs as three sets of weapons working cohesively for fists and feet to attack their targets with devastating results.
Pressuring and challenging each other's balance is consistent throughout every engagement, which is reaffirmed by Sifu Taner's statement that the practice, "Looks easy but is not." Highlighting that many predominantly focus on working the arms neglecting the importance of developing a strong, yet versatile, stance and hip as the engine that powers the pistons which are the punches. Each evolution of their interaction demonstrating more damaging blows that are, "the right techniques," that flow with increased intensity to adapt and move with an attacker that is also looking to exact their own means of inflicting critical damage with equal access of opportunity provided in that range.
It is assumed that those watching this video already have fundamental and tenured training so little time is spent on addressing all of the conceptual and structural details to focus solely on putting all of the techniques to work in an act and react platform.
Sifu Taner & Graziano - Lat Sao for Student Degree 4
Language: English
Running Time: Approx. 40 min.
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