Basic Sticking Hands Mechanics
The beginning Wing Chun student learns three fundamental exercises before getting into the attack and defence aspects of the sticking hands. These are: 1) Single sticking hands, 2) Lap sau or grabbing hand exercise and 3) The rolling hands exercise.
1. Single sticking hands
Tan sau and Fook sau neutral position. One side does a palm strike, the other applies the Jum sau or sinking hand. Really it is an elbow drop position. Then follow with a wedging middle punch. Try to off-balance your partner.
Show below is Master Wong Shun Leung demonstrating the single sticking hand exercise with one of his students. The video that these photos came from is called “THE SCIENCE of IN-FIGHTING” by “MASTER WONG SHUN LEUNG” from www.worldvideo.com. You can order it from Amazon.com or Amazon.ca.
2. Lap sau
Punch vs Bong sau starting position. The defender applies a push, pull and punch to defend. Change with Pak sau and neck hit, Tan sau and punch or long pull and punch. Double pull and kick or sweep can also be used. Later this is an explosive action.
3. Rolling hands
Trains the stance, the center, relaxation, stickiness, sensitivity, economy, alertness and variety of close range attack and defence. At first just train the rolling action with no fighting mixed in. Train to control the opponent. Don’t think just about hitting. Also don’t just do the same movements over and over again. Learn to slowly expand your fighting repertoire. Keep the same speed always.
Here I am training Raegan who had about two months of scattered Wing Chun training. After teaching the 108 movement "Litt;e Idea" form we immediately start o...