Adding hip rotation, ball/heal weight distribution, a supported extension and good timing as important to generating knockout power. It's kind of akward at first like a golf swing.
Quick point of differentiation between what we call the "capping punch" and what's shown at 3:15 here as the "excluding punch." The capping punch just drives right through and the forearm of the punch itself serves as the deflective surface. There's no intermediary pak sao before the punch, the punch is the deflection and the strike.
We step slightly off the line of force then intercept/punch the opponent's incoming head driving through it with our hip rotation preferably targeting their temple while gearing up to strike with our rear hand to the bridge of their nose or directly into their eye socket constantly coming in and jamming their elbow into their center setting their missing tripod leaving them feeling helpless and violated while stepping through their knee and sending the back of their heads hurling to the floor only to stomp on their faces before we walk away... or something like that
My concern is the "power generation" should be the most important part of the beginner's training,
One note here is that Sil Lum Tao doesn't train proper punch mechanics, it's the first and one of the open hand forms. We studied healthy punching power in separate lessons.
We step slightly off the line of force then intercept/punch the opponent's incoming head driving through it with our hip rotation preferably targeting their temple while gearing up to strike with our rear hand to the bridge of their nose or directly into their eye socket constantly coming in and jamming their elbow into their center setting their missing tripod leaving them feeling helpless and violated while stepping through their knee and sending the back of their heads hurling to the floor only to stomp on their faces before we walk away... or something like that
Are we still talking about the Sil Lum Tao here? Feels like we're covering a lot of ground!
~ Alan
To clarify however your WC is a combination of at least 2 Lineages correct? Only want to clarify because people here can paint with a broad brush. Ergo if your WC shares elements with TWC or WSL or whatever, unless you clarify people will be myopic and focus on one source. It sucks but welcome to our forums.
Ah, yeah. It was a bit of an exaggeration lol. We talk about the elbow a lot. It depends on our range and it's introduced from an open hand standpoint in the Bil Gee. We practice defending punches with elbows, defending elbows with elbows, and striking at a diagonal. It's just seems to be treated as a recovery tactic more than anything else. One thing my Sifu says is "if you're in range to give an elbow, you're in range to eat an elbow" which I think emphasizes a need to recover from it. Different strokes I guess.Saw it.
Whoa... okay... I think you just described a murder.
Yes, we're still talking about SNT, because it's all about the elbow, though this seems to be missing from most lineages.
The Wing Chun I learned from my Sifu John Wahnish comes from my Sigung Philip Holder who, after graduating with honors under WIlliam Cheung graduated from Moy Yat before branching out and starting the North American Wing Chun Association (I believe in the 80's). Since then they have adapted and encouraged its continual development with input from BJJ, Krav Maga, boxing, and other arts. Wherever there is a movement that follows Wing Chun principles, that movement is Wing Chun.
We have them in the form we study. The start of the Bil Gee incorporates elbow striking. They're diagonal and the elbow ends at the central line to avoid giving the opponent our... elbow. Our 8th set of the dummy also includes elbow deflection with a bridge to lan sao. There's a particular hook punch defense where while fading under the hook we consider sending an elbow to the hip of the opponent (because it's just right there).
