Dan,<br><br>You have to train a technique a
couple of thousand times before it burns into your
neural pathway. Becomes a reaction rather than an
action.<br><br>And the answer is both.<br><br>You may not realise
this but your skills have improved since you started
training.<br><br>You will know when you are making progress when you
can perform techniques and move between them without
thinking. However, as soon as you start thinking about what
your doing everything will go to pot.<br><br>Just keep
training,<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Steve.
Thanks Steve,<br><br>Like anything, it takes time then? Does such repetitive training only teach dexterity or actually enhance one's natural co-ordination? Or...
Arrow walking has made me think a little ( it had to happen sooner or later...), systems such as karate and tae kwon do all have a variety of techniques ...
I haven't read the book but have been looking at some reviews recently.....there's a pretty good explanation at Amazon.co.uk, which goes along the lines of ...
Rich,<br><br>Have to remember that Wing Chun works best in crowded places or where physical space is limited (telephone box scenario).<br><br>Arrow walking ...
Hi All,<br><br>Just a note that Grand Master Yip Chun will be visiting my school for the last time in September before he is due to retire.<br><br>As this is ...
Thank you Steve, for giving us the opportunity to ask Grandmaster Yip Chun a question. My question is: Do you know of any wing chun style that practice the ...
Kelly,<br><br>Good question.<br><br>This depends very much on the school.<br><br>In China they say that belts are for holding your trousers up! In the West ...
Kelly,<br><br>Explaining Chi is a bit like describing a colour to a blind man.<br><br>Chi is the life force that flows through our bodies. Certain training and...
Kelly,<br><br>Yes we have 4 colours in our system, each of which have 4 tags.<br><br>RED = Sil Nim Tao,<br>GREEN = Chum Kiu<br>BROWN = Bil Tze<br><br>and...
managed to confuse myself!!!(so whats new....)<br>whats the difference between huang sau (hung sau??) and cau sau (spelling??!!)-are they both rotations from ...
Ummm,o.k. it goes like this.<br>Hung sao( I know it as heun sao)refers to a small wrist rotation which can be used to go either from the outside gate to the...
Richard,<br><br>Heun Sao is first trained in Sil Nim Tao but few students realise its potential until the play chi sao. A very useful tool for changing gates...
Hello to all...<br><br>I'm currently uploading all my wooden dummy files to my briefcase in Yahoo. These photos include professional wooden dummies, homemade...
Hi everyone! im doing a project, and i need by tomorrow some statistics on how many people practice martial arts, locally, worldwide, etc...<br>could anybody...
questions I ask generally answer themselves..but here goes...<br>faced with an opponent, what are the primary means by which you initiate contact with the wing...
There are a number of ways a wing chun fighter can force the contact.In so called'traditional' style, they hop in on a tangent with one leg cocked in the knee...
Is there great significance to the extent of turning ( in terms of the range in degress, not the number of times it's done..) in the first third of the second...
Rich,<br><br>This form as well as other things, helps perfect the turning stance/weight distribution.<br><br>The hips should turn no more than 45 degrees as in...
Hi Steve, it's Chris.<br><br>I'd just like to say thanks for arranging/organizing the christmas meal last night, it was really cool and fun, and thanks for ...
I get frustrated at times, most teachers do. Not that I have anything to complain about with my students, they are a great bunch. <br><br>I guess its just that...
I can remember when I first came across Wing Chun years ago that I gave short shrift to the idea of generating large amounts of power over short distances as...
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