Chi Sau And Wooden Dummy

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Chi Sau And Wooden Dummy

Posted on 05 July 2011 by admin

My training this week is going well. I know it's only Tuesday, but hopefully, I'll maintain my fortitude throughout the week.

Yesterday I had the usual argument in my head on my way to work about whether to go to the gym for an hour before work or whether to do something else (also constructive). In the end, Wing Chun training lost out to learning PHP but what I did do was an hour of Chi Sau at lunch and an hour on the dummy in the evening. That's not bad going for me. Two whole hours in one day. It would have been three if I'd gone to the gym in the morning, but I do have a life outside of Wing Chun that I'm trying to hang onto.

Doing three one hour chi sau sessions a week looks like becoming an established routine now, which is brilliant. My only concern is that chi sauing with the same person all the time gets you used to their way of working. Just because you can handle yourself in chi sau with that person, it doesn't mean that your Wing Chun will stand up to someone else's chi sau. But I do get to chi sau with other students during and after my weekly class, so it's all good. And, up to a point, I think that doing a lot of chi sau with the same person is better than doing none at all.

This morning I did 30 minutes of Chun Yuen and 15 minutes of Siu Lim Tau. I also got an hour in on the dummy later this evening.

The dummy is going well. I read on a forum yesterday that the tan sau -> gaan sau -> kwan sau in the first section of the dummy form mirrors the third section of Siu Lim Tau. I'd not thought of that. I read somewhere else that a particular teacher's method is to teach "the next bit" of the dummy every time students learn the the next form. So it sounds like the dummy is a way of practising the application of the forms in the absence of a partner. And it looks like maybe 0.01% of the crap I read on Wing Chun forums turns out to be informative.