Pad work is an integral part of the San Sao module aimed at developing students' punching power. It's useless to have great skills but lack the takedown punch to end the fight as soon as possible.
Students are taught to develop long range power using correct methods of throwing punches combining both muscles and joints relaxation and hip torsion generating high velocity springy whipping power. The output is obviously different from the "ordinary " punches commonly seen in the media. Students are also taught to generate explosive short range striking power for close range combat. Short range power can be in form of elbow strikes, palm strikes, knee strikes & punches etc... |
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Most of the Wing Chun training consists of San Sik Drills. San Sik Drills are meant to fine tune your ability to determine motion and movement through touch. Wing Chun practitioners relay on touch and feel more than vision. In multiple attacker situations it is of the utmost importance to relay on feel so you can control or disable one attacker while keeping your vision on incoming opponents.
A great example of San Sik Drills is the first Punch Drill exercise preformed with your eyes shut. By doing this you know when the next punch is coming because you feel your partner withdrawing the hand you have contact with. |
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San Sao Drills or Combat Sets training is a close range random drill consisting of two practitioners. One will attack and the other will defend and annihilate. Your partner starts off by throwing a random attack and you defend and finish with controlled return fire.
Although Wing Chun techniques do not look fancy in a street fight, they work and that's what counts. Street attacks are almost always at close range. Wing Chun works best at close range. Your survival in a real street confrontation depends on the ability to fight in these close order situations. |
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Wing Chun is a realistic street fight martial art; not a Chi Sao nor tournament art. Therefore, emphasis is placed on combat training so as to enable students to use their Wing Chun skills acquired to deal with realistic street fight situations whenever the need arises. We DO NOT train students to fight “tournament styles” or “spar with classroom scenarios”. Students are trained to close the gap using lightning fast footwork to engage in Close Range Combat as what the art was designed for. During the process, students are trained to build their confidence, have the guts to face up to hostility and take charge of the situations in order to end the fight within seconds.
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In some cases, street fights involve dealing with not only single opponent but also his friends or even an ambush. Therefore, students at Singapore Wing Chun Academy are trained to develop correct reactions to dealing with such situations.
Emphasis is placed on good position, situational awareness and aggression coupled with skills and lightning fast footwork. |
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Street fights are not limited to bare hands. Very often, glass bottles, stabbing and chopping knives, short poles and even chains are used. Students are taught to deal with such situations at combat speed and scenarios as realistically as possible. Unrealistic simulations will likely end one up in a fatal or critical situations.
Much of the training emphasise on sensing movements & intentions eliminating the need for one to gather his guts when engaged in such situations. |
Single Sticky Hands 单黐手Chi Sao training typically begins with Dan Chi Sao (Single Sticky Hand) training. In this exercise, students focus on using one hand to each cycle through a different series of 3 movements. These movements are not to be done mechanically but in response to the energy from the training partner's technique. Dan Chi Sao training teaches the student to:
It also provides the foundation for the student to progress to Double Hand Chi Sao (Double Sticking Hands) |
Double Sticky Hands 双黐手
When the student has progressed sufficiently through Single Hand Chi Sao, then he embarks upon Double Hands Chi Sao. There is no set form or sequence to Free Form Chi Sao. Students are free to engage in any attack or response that their training manifests. Double Hand Chi Sao teaches the student to:
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