Ideas on the Idea, the Core of Chu Shong Tin Wing Chun
In my previous post [Two-centre Operation – Part 2: What are Virtual Centres Representing?] 2015.12.29, I discussed the last move of Biu Jee in which the spine acts not as a vertical upright straight axis, but a curve capable of “bending” and “flipping” (in appearance) due to inside rotating of its various vertebral joints. In…
Photo by Elijah Hiett on Unsplash Kim Hoe posted a comment to my previous article on breathing, dated 2020.12.24. My apologies for not responding earlier. Here I share my views on his questions, which might already appear not of your current interest. Kim Hoe: Like you mentioned and also mentioned by Master Chu in some…
Sketch by Joyce McCown on UnsplashFigure by Emiliano Vittoriosi on Unsplash (The descriptions in this post are based on my feelings. They are not anatomically precise, something you might want to verify from other sources.) Quite a while ago we discussed rising up the spine in the post Spine Rising from Anus Contraction. In this…
1) https://youtu.be/uPL75JIrg-s(@ 1:40; Taichi’s twisting, bursting/blasting; directly relates to inhaling/exhaling)2) https://youtu.be/EIA8MQjGRZ8(@ 1:30; Wing Chun’s solid penetrating; relatively unrelated to breathing)3) https://youtu.be/qOrZwBEEAU4(@ all; Siu Nim Tau performed in Qi state) In the last post, Qi – Wing Chun vs Taichi, I compared the different methods of power generation between the Chu-style Wing Chun and the Chen-style…
Now I turn to Qi. After you’ve tasted the “feeling of Qi” by calming and relaxing, you experience Qi by “filling up”, noticeably the forearms first, then the body trunk, then maybe the legs too. (To me, Qi in the context of Chu-style Wing Chun is “filling up”.) I take “filling up” with a simple…
In this and the next one or two posts, I am taking a bold step to share my views on Qi. This initiative came from my dialogue with a reader, Kevin from Indonesia, who asked me about breathing techniques in training and the Qi phenomenon. My discussion is based on this dialogue. But I start…
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Hi, I’m Eddie Chan, a devoted practitioner and trainer dedicated to Wing Chun in the lineage of the late Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin, my beloved and respectable Sifu. Writing has long been a means of mine to communicate and propagate this Chu-style martial art – first at my Facebook page. This blog collects those write-ups and will roll them out gradually as a start, to make them more organised for better reading, then further supplemented with new attempts subsequently.
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