Oh yeah I agree but at the moment I couldn't find a video. I prefer a long fist form I do but wasn't able to get a video. Just hoping to clarify the splitting gold move was similar to the opening move here.
It makes sense to let your leg to do your leg job and let your hand to do your hand job.
As showing in this picture, when you use X block, how do you prevent your opponent from guiding one of your arms to jam your other arm. Your opponent has to do a lot to set that up. Now you just give that to him for free.
Yes that's in the forms as well. But not in the illustrations.
Yes.
As showing in this picture, when you use X block, how do you prevent your opponent from guiding one of your arms to jam your other arm. Your opponent has to do a lot to set that up. Now you just give that to him for free.
Too sleepy to watch right now but tomorrow I'll look.
We can chat more about these later but for now think of Sup Gi Sau less as a guard against strikes and more like a closed guard in BJJ, but with your arms instead of your thighs.
One application that I can think of can be this. You have to cross your arms in order to cross your opponent's arms.
Yeah I agree. I always tell people if it's low enough where you gotta lean into it it's to low to use your hands and your legs probably can do it better/safer. I started adopting that after finding the Wing Chun Leg blocks. It's good stuff
The art for these martial arts is always so cool
I've seen the downward cross used that way but I haven't used that one for trying to block a kick.
Not sure if the angle matters but Wing Chun uses cross like blocks more so to the sides. As far as I remember it's meant to absorb primarily kicks or I'd assume hooks. But not sure how they deal with the obvious part where you leave yourself open.
I agree 100% with this.Just for the sake of discussion. When he does
- the reverse punch at 0.26, his right fist, right shoulder and left shoulder should make a perfect straight line. He didn't extend his punch far enough.
- horse stance left punch at 0.41, his right foot should point south or southeast. It should not point to the southwest.
Many people do this kind of outward horse stance, and I don't know the reason behind it.
If you face north with outward horse stance, when your
- left leg borrow the counter force from the ground, your body will move to northwest.
- right leg borrow the counter force from the ground, your body will move to northeast.
Since your body can't move toward NW and NE at the same time, this kind of outward horse stance make no combat sense at all.
Scissor strike from that position works too as long as the tension is there.
You use it against straight punches The hands are held apart and form the X as the punch comes in.As showing in this picture, when you use X block, how do you prevent your opponent from guiding one of your arms to jam your other arm. Your opponent has to do a lot to set that up. Now you just give that to him for free.
Yeah I found a good authoritative reference for Sup Gi in the Dang Fong lineage's Five Animal Fist book (which is a big volume). Also a lot more Leopard stuff. I'll try to summarize more later.
Perfect dude. Just spot on. These MMA demos are perfect illustrations.
Sup Gi is a "Stopping Bridge" method (jit kiu), also known as the "Golden Scissor". It has five directions (high, middle, low, left, right). Like Marvin's videos show it can block things, but the real goal is bridging and controlling (hence the scissor motif). If you saw the Knife defense thread, it's exactly what the Navy SEAL instructor shows for stopping and controlling a knife attack (he calls it X guard the concept is the same).One application that I can think of can be this. You have to cross your arms in order to cross your opponent's arms.
