Instead of air punching, I fold a bath towel in half, hang it and punch that for speed exercises to keep from messing up my joints....just a thought. Use the heavy bag/wall bag for power.
I live over on Vancouver Island and I practice Wing Chun in Nanaimo been at it for about 42 years and still can’t get my wife interested and I also do Tai Chi and still can’t get her interested. I have bean bags at home as well as a hard form makiwara pad. Always enjoy watching the videos.
I like hitting the Bob standing dummy since it mimics the texture and contour of the human body. I have gotten great results refining my kinetic linking. Using sand in the base of my body gives it a weight of 300 lbs.
Excellent. Safety is no accident. Over training the joints is the thing that ruins us more than any particular bad technique across the fitness industry as a whole. Joints and connective tissue need to heal for longer periods, while muscles heal fast. So we tend to train again too soon with stronger muscles but the joints are still under a healing phase. Foam rolling helps. Then if they are injured, like the air punching elbow injury from chain punching, it becomes an inflammation injury cycle. But who takes 6 months off to heal connective tissues to prevent a cumulative injury cycle? Athletes tend to just wrap and tape it up and keep playing and we become numb to the injury. Dummy tools are great for working martial arts around injured areas while they heal. WT uses chain punching at high speed so most of them "miss" which forces instructors to carefully manage students growth in their use of triceps extension to lock the elbow. It should not matter if the pad is moved, as the enemy is going to move. But you are correct, because the student is still learning it! They will hurt their elbow until they learn how to not hurt it! HA...(hammer fist vs thrust punch lesson, add 3 years practice), so drills need to prevent this mistake.
Good point about the pad and when I was learning karate, I wasn't good at holding pads. As a result, my sensei kicked me on the face and I was bleeding. He didn't say sorry but did look at my cut. Hence, I quit karate because I was scared and never got my black belt... Also, I don't have a partner to train with and just the wooden dummy, which can make certain drills hard to train like the pak sau drills Why don't you tell your wife that learning wing chun will prevent you from getting raped? She might learn it..😂 but seriously, if I have a wife, would also like her to join in..
Instead of air punching, I fold a bath towel in half, hang it and punch that for speed exercises to keep from messing up my joints....just a thought. Use the heavy bag/wall bag for power.
But for my actual comment, I like this video. Gives a lot of outlooks on goods and bads of different training options. Very well rounded as always.
I live over on Vancouver Island and I practice Wing Chun in Nanaimo been at it for about 42 years and still can’t get my wife interested and I also do Tai Chi and still can’t get her interested. I have bean bags at home as well as a hard form makiwara pad. Always enjoy watching the videos.
I like hitting the Bob standing dummy since it mimics the texture and contour of the human body. I have gotten great results refining my kinetic linking. Using sand in the base of my body gives it a weight of 300 lbs.
Thanks Sifu Chan
Excellent. Safety is no accident.
Over training the joints is the thing that ruins us more than any particular bad technique across the fitness industry as a whole. Joints and connective tissue need to heal for longer periods, while muscles heal fast. So we tend to train again too soon with stronger muscles but the joints are still under a healing phase. Foam rolling helps. Then if they are injured, like the air punching elbow injury from chain punching, it becomes an inflammation injury cycle. But who takes 6 months off to heal connective tissues to prevent a cumulative injury cycle? Athletes tend to just wrap and tape it up and keep playing and we become numb to the injury. Dummy tools are great for working martial arts around injured areas while they heal.
WT uses chain punching at high speed so most of them "miss" which forces instructors to carefully manage students growth in their use of triceps extension to lock the elbow. It should not matter if the pad is moved, as the enemy is going to move. But you are correct, because the student is still learning it! They will hurt their elbow until they learn how to not hurt it! HA...(hammer fist vs thrust punch lesson, add 3 years practice), so drills need to prevent this mistake.
@Ronald Hodgson...it shows 3 comments, but your 2 comments are the only ones showing. Good old UA-cam! Try it again...maybe.
You can't see them either. UA-cam is owned by Google. You think they'd do better.
That is interesting. It says one comment. But I can't see it. They blocked me?
Can someone screen shot their comment for me? Lol
Ronald I left you a comment....it only shows your 2 replies, not your original...maybe try again?
Good point about the pad and when I was learning karate, I wasn't good at holding pads. As a result, my sensei kicked me on the face and I was bleeding. He didn't say sorry but did look at my cut. Hence, I quit karate because I was scared and never got my black belt...
Also, I don't have a partner to train with and just the wooden dummy, which can make certain drills hard to train like the pak sau drills
Why don't you tell your wife that learning wing chun will prevent you from getting raped? She might learn it..😂 but seriously, if I have a wife, would also like her to join in..
Bro, don't train with your wife! I did that ONCE. It was not pretty.