Love these video breakdowns - is a really good chance to see a little more through your eyes Nima and unserstand what you mean when you say 'the force has entered the joint' etc. To see the compassion of Sigung working on someone like Beau, the more senior, and then attempt but not even want to continue on the younger lesss experienced and to see clearly why. Great insight and looking forward to more of these gems! Thanks
Thanks for continuing to share your goldmine of videos, Wing Chun is an art that will never cease to fascinate and inspire me. I love your channel and grand master Chu Shong-tin videos. Wing Chun is an art I began practicing in the UK when I was a Uni student around 13 years ago. I can honestly say it’s an art that’s helped me as an individual and discovering more about the internal side to the practice makes me want to practice Sil lim tao much more diligently.
It's a great pleasure to share these videos knowing that there are people out there who appreciate and benefit from them. And even better to hear that Wing Chun's path has helped you in your life (it literally saved mine), and yes the internal aspect is even more transformative and addictive 😊 Keep it up mate.
I love this!! I feel like I can see the difference between the guys he is showing it to. Getting to see real teaching in action by a Grandmaster like Chu Shong Tin would have only been possible to very privileged few in the past, before youtube. Amazing to have this insight and access wooh! 🎉❤ It's worth Gold!! ⚜️ Thank You for sharing and also opening it up with your chat too!! 🙏🙌👍
Glad you enjoyed it and it's always a good feeling to spend time to make these videos knowing there are people out there who appreciate it and benefit from it. 🙏
I really like this video. This is very valuable footage. Great video and insights Nima. Really captures the vibe of what it feels like to be a student of this art! Awesome job 👍
Thanks man, glad you think so. It's been a while since you've made some Sigung vids. I always enjoy your work too. How's training? you still being consistent? still teaching?
I would love to see what happens if you meet Dan harden or Sam chin and touch hands. They are recognized as really high level internal power masters, and I'm curious what the similarities and differences in your qualities are
I would really like that too. I make it a mission to seek out people like that and touch hands. Actually one of my students moved to the States and is now training with Sam. She said they ate keeping a close eye and very interested on what I'm doing, so am sure if we were in the same city, Sam ans I would get together and have a play. Haven't seen too many of Dan's stuff. Have you met him?
@@MindfulWingChun yeah Sam is great as far as I can tell from the two times meeting him in workshops in Vienna, he is my Sigung. My Sifu also told me he likes your stuff and would like to touch hands, for me personally Tsui Sheung Tin is the man who sparked my interest in Internal arts. Didn't have the fortune to meet Dan yet, but I would love to. I like reading the whole IP/ Aiki stuff in the forums and he's getting highly praised by all the high level people who met him. I guess I should train more and stop being so invested in other peoples abilities 😂
@Mes94 haha, training more sounds lile a great plan, but its also good to draw inspiration from others. Anything to fuel more practice 👍🏻 Will check out Dan's stuff. thanks man
These old pieces of footage also show when Beau was performing the move to sigungs satisfaction , Beau truly could feel that he was using very little effort. Similarly Mark and you could see his intention in his facial expression whilst remaining relaxed. Nima , most people would need to physically feel this to comprehend the relaxed state behind the power that can be generated. Great video. Feel free to strip any of mine or Graham’s stuff from 91 and use them for similar instructions. Cheers brother
Absolutely. For us that know it's a clear change in the physical expressions of the person when they are more in the state. And thanks very much for the offer of using your videos to do the same. I think it will be very helpful for people. I wish there was a way I could get the original resolutions from you cause when downloading them off youtune the quality is pretty bad
I am living in Vancouver and previously study Wing chun under one of Master Chu's student. The hidden power of nim tao really benefit me on my job position. I feel easy and relax on duty which required great muscle force (some of my co-worker call me muscle-man). Until now I get the point of "joint to joint" to make a movement instead of gathering up muscle.😊
@@MindfulWingChun haven't visit his studio since the global pandemic . One of my uncle also study wing chun in the past. Maybe he never heard of this style before. He kept given me stress: "Still standing??" Now I just regularly practice Siu Nim Tao as an exercise and also watching Master Chu's teaching video on UA-cam!!! However, according to my memory, this teaching style do get attention from people of different gender and age !!!😅
@bernardszeto2171 haha, yeah I heard there was a lot of standing going on at Leo's school. It's good that you're practcing SNT and not just standing. That is important. To activate the state he is talking about here does require the actual practice of SNT ans not just standing with the hands by the side.
@@bernardszeto2171 I hope Sifu Lit is doing well. I was walking down pender when I ran into him teaching at a martial arts store. I was a teenager with no background in martial arts and l swear I thought he was either using magic or some wuxia stuff. I then assumed his level to be the default universal skill level of wing chun sifus. 😂 I was just very lucky.
For me too. I myself was training in this lineage in Sydney and there was always talk of what he could do. I was a teenager and working as a bouncer at the time. so I didn't believe in any 'internal' things. That all changed very quickly as soon as I met him in sydney in 2003, and right then and there I decided to come to Hong Kong to learn from him. Eventhough he was 70+ yrs. old at the time, his power was shocking and his humility heart warming. It was something I had to be a part of...
Thanks for sharing the video Nima! Based on what CST said about the intention of just a thought and nim tao state of just visualising the movement but not adding extra effort. Does this seem similar to what Bruce Lee wrote in his tao of gung fu book around wu-hsin (no-mindess) and wu-wei (non-doing)?
Watching Sigungs video now I can see more of what he is doing now and the changes in the people he is setting up. Each time I train with you in Hongkong it is a clear eye opener and progession. I can highly recommend to visit you and experience that first hand with Sifu Nima King and his team.
that's a great sign that the state is becoming more and more recognizable for you. And yeah nothing can beat the hands on training as its the quickest way to get a taste of the feeling and therefore grasp an experiential understanding (rather than a mere intellectual one).
I personally watched and practiced at length alone “single stickn arm “ 😅. ( favorite exercise) I found old tapes of him teaching by “simple king fu”. The “disconnect but connect “ of the “ upward bong “ will pinpoint this ( in shoulder ) along with your balance . As always coach 🙏thank you!!! Your the best NIMA 👑
I heard you make a comment in a video one time and you said “ I hope you’ve been practicing single hand because there is a reason it is there ) thank you 🙏
It's great to hear that you're enjoying the practice of Single sticking hands and finding its gem of benefits. It really is an important exercise that many neglect and rush over or misunderstand its purpose. 👍🏻
Hey Nima, nice vid, I have little time for social media. But it seems like a little what I teach my boys. I've always believed the body interacted with a globalised sensitised and neural and physical conduit. I try teach them to listen to it physically with the mind and not debate it. 😂 I give em a lot of analogies to relax the body. It's fun👍 The mind force debate versus what's chi was a big ball busting debate for Sifu Jim and Sifu Albert in the early days 😂😂😂 I felt sorry for them 😂😂😂 When you say deceptive you hit the nail on the head lol 🎉
Yeah even until he passed away, CST was clear that he didn't know and couldn't explain what the flow was that he could feel, and transmit to some of us who were able to receive it to relax. But what he did always highlight is that its an ability everyone has and they just need to learn to use the mind to guide it after they have achieved a high enough level of relaxation ans opening of the body.
@@MindfulWingChun it's very interesting. When I was little and listened to the instructors talk about it or Sifu Jim Talk about it I just say it intrigued me a great deal. Always. Im pretty sure I have in my old archives a video where Sigung said he allowed himself to be tested and that the results pointed to a part of the brain we don't use consciously but that he was able to activate it at will... Probably not intentionally but he made it work.... I cant seem to find it on the net but I'm sure I have it somewhere.. Anyway nice
@sifpaulfernandezthewingchundao no he wasn't tested scientifically. He was set to be tested and then he got diagnosed with cancer and was asked not to fly out of HK (it was going to take place in Australia). He just felt that he is activating the back part of the brain. It's what he felt, so not scientifically proven. He did say that the activity of the front lobe and analytical part of the brain decreases and that we can't 'think' our way into this state.
@@MindfulWingChun Ok so I misunderstood it because I think I had a little trouble understating the translation texts. Yeh I think I know what he means... Anyway one tries....
Hi Calvin, Unfortunately we don't have any schools from this lineage in the States yet. That's why we put the online school together and there are many online students from the states and some meet up for training together. If you haven't checked it out, visit www.mindfulwingchun.online
There is often talk in martial arts circles about styles that harness the so-called internal force, with a clear distinction drawn between external and internal martial arts. But what does this really mean? In my humble opinion, there is no internal or external. Ultimately, it’s all about how you align and structure your body, and how you utilize your tissues and muscles. The human body contains anywhere between 600 and 840 muscles, depending on how they're counted. Are we consciously engaging all of them, or just a select few? Then there's the concept of "Chi" (or "Qi"), a vital energy that, according to Eastern traditions, animates the body. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), qi is divided into two main aspects: the tangible, physical qi derived from air, water, and food, and the more elusive, energetic qi that flows through the body’s channels. This latter form of qi is often cited as the source of internal power. From my perspective, the true essence of internal and/or external (that are the same) force lies in how efficiently we use our body’s energy-whether it’s the energy generated by muscles, tendons, or other bodily structures. The distinction isn’t so much between internal or external, but rather about how effectively we harness our body’s inherent energy. It’s all about mastering your body’s structure and utilizing this energy to execute movements with maximum efficiency.
Yeah that was the main point of his teachings in the last couple of years of his life "no arms, no legs". He said you lose the sense of separation between the limbs and the body and therefore the body feels like one unified thing (and there is sense of emptiness).
The real sifu who reached the highest level with never show their true power, most students aren't to be trusted they don't put the work or stay long enough
This is where Chu Shong Tin was very different. He would put it on display and let us film in day in day out. Just because people see it doesn't mean they can do it though. Thats why we put his entire teachings online on our online school and go through it step by step. But even then, the only way is to practice it. Those with bad character usually will not be able to get it because they aren't able to 'let go' of deep levels of mental and physical tension. Hence why this is potentially a transformational practice which can tame a person to the core and make an angry or violent man and bring peace into his/her life. I know this from personal experience
@@MindfulWingChun this is beautifully put, I often found in practice that the desire to add more power/damage/violence hampers the actual release of that force, because something changes in the mind and therefore changes in the body When you practice Siu Nim Tao you’re already searching for the most efficient way to deliver through release, so any time you try to add something, you’re actually taking away
I find that a slight variation of the Shaolin exercise 'beating the drum': ua-cam.com/video/2lgN5DdUsR4/v-deo.html - is really excellent for demonstrating this to people.
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Love these video breakdowns - is a really good chance to see a little more through your eyes Nima and unserstand what you mean when you say 'the force has entered the joint' etc. To see the compassion of Sigung working on someone like Beau, the more senior, and then attempt but not even want to continue on the younger lesss experienced and to see clearly why. Great insight and looking forward to more of these gems! Thanks
🙏 Will keep them coming 👊
i've been binging alot of Sifu Nima's videos lately and this one by far has given my WC an 'ah-ha' moment. Thank you!
Thanks again for a great vid! 🙌
Always a pleasure 🙏 ☺️
Thanks for continuing to share your goldmine of videos, Wing Chun is an art that will never cease to fascinate and inspire me. I love your channel and grand master Chu Shong-tin videos. Wing Chun is an art I began practicing in the UK when I was a Uni student around 13 years ago. I can honestly say it’s an art that’s helped me as an individual and discovering more about the internal side to the practice makes me want to practice Sil lim tao much more diligently.
It's a great pleasure to share these videos knowing that there are people out there who appreciate and benefit from them.
And even better to hear that Wing Chun's path has helped you in your life (it literally saved mine), and yes the internal aspect is even more transformative and addictive 😊
Keep it up mate.
I love this!! I feel like I can see the difference between the guys he is showing it to.
Getting to see real teaching in action by a Grandmaster like Chu Shong Tin would have only been possible to very privileged few in the past, before youtube. Amazing to have this insight and access wooh! 🎉❤ It's worth Gold!! ⚜️
Thank You for sharing and also opening it up with your chat too!! 🙏🙌👍
Glad you enjoyed it and it's always a good feeling to spend time to make these videos knowing there are people out there who appreciate it and benefit from it. 🙏
very interesting video. Thank you for your explanation on the internal mechanism for Wing Chun.
Glad you found it interesting, and you're very welcome 🙏
I really like this video. This is very valuable footage. Great video and insights Nima. Really captures the vibe of what it feels like to be a student of this art! Awesome job 👍
Thanks man, glad you think so. It's been a while since you've made some Sigung vids. I always enjoy your work too.
How's training? you still being consistent? still teaching?
Seems your videos have had an upgrade?! This one is great and appreciate your time. Thanks Mindful Wing Chun!
I'm glad you noticed. Put a bit more time and effort into this one. Hope to be able to continue delivering higher quality videos 🙏
Thank you Nima for your videos.
you're very welcome 🙏
I would love to see what happens if you meet Dan harden or Sam chin and touch hands. They are recognized as really high level internal power masters, and I'm curious what the similarities and differences in your qualities are
I would really like that too. I make it a mission to seek out people like that and touch hands.
Actually one of my students moved to the States and is now training with Sam. She said they ate keeping a close eye and very interested on what I'm doing, so am sure if we were in the same city, Sam ans I would get together and have a play.
Haven't seen too many of Dan's stuff. Have you met him?
@@MindfulWingChun yeah Sam is great as far as I can tell from the two times meeting him in workshops in Vienna, he is my Sigung. My Sifu also told me he likes your stuff and would like to touch hands, for me personally Tsui Sheung Tin is the man who sparked my interest in Internal arts. Didn't have the fortune to meet Dan yet, but I would love to. I like reading the whole IP/ Aiki stuff in the forums and he's getting highly praised by all the high level people who met him. I guess I should train more and stop being so invested in other peoples abilities 😂
@Mes94 haha, training more sounds lile a great plan, but its also good to draw inspiration from others. Anything to fuel more practice 👍🏻
Will check out Dan's stuff. thanks man
With the Sung Wing Chun boys this weekend
@@MindfulWingChunwhich state?
Amazing master chu song Ting👍
Who is your gmaster?
👊
Thank you for this Sifu Nima
My pleasure. Glad you like it
These old pieces of footage also show when Beau was performing the move to sigungs satisfaction , Beau truly could feel that he was using very little effort. Similarly Mark and you could see his intention in his facial expression whilst remaining relaxed. Nima , most people would need to physically feel this to comprehend the relaxed state behind the power that can be generated. Great video. Feel free to strip any of mine or Graham’s stuff from 91 and use them for similar instructions. Cheers brother
Absolutely. For us that know it's a clear change in the physical expressions of the person when they are more in the state.
And thanks very much for the offer of using your videos to do the same. I think it will be very helpful for people.
I wish there was a way I could get the original resolutions from you cause when downloading them off youtune the quality is pretty bad
Clear explanation - superb!
Glad you thought so, and hope it helped 🙏
that was very helpful clip, thank you very much
I'm glad to hear that. My pleasure 🙏
Thanks for posting Sifu Nima.
🙏🙏
I am living in Vancouver and previously study Wing chun under one of Master Chu's student.
The hidden power of nim tao really benefit me on my job position. I feel easy and relax on duty which required great muscle force (some of my co-worker call me muscle-man). Until now I get the point of "joint to joint" to make a movement instead of gathering up muscle.😊
Nice Bernard. So your training with Leo Lit? How's his school going? many students interested in this method over there?
@@MindfulWingChun haven't visit his studio since the global pandemic . One of my uncle also study wing chun in the past. Maybe he never heard of this style before. He kept given me stress: "Still standing??" Now I just regularly practice Siu Nim Tao as an exercise and also watching Master Chu's teaching video on UA-cam!!! However, according to my memory, this teaching style do get attention from people of different gender and age !!!😅
@bernardszeto2171 haha, yeah I heard there was a lot of standing going on at Leo's school.
It's good that you're practcing SNT and not just standing. That is important. To activate the state he is talking about here does require the actual practice of SNT ans not just standing with the hands by the side.
@@bernardszeto2171 I hope Sifu Lit is doing well. I was walking down pender when I ran into him teaching at a martial arts store. I was a teenager with no background in martial arts and l swear I thought he was either using magic or some wuxia stuff. I then assumed his level to be the default universal skill level of wing chun sifus. 😂
I was just very lucky.
@@MindfulWingChun When I returned to his school after a long break everyone was just standing.
CST, the first guy who make me believe internal art had some potential , i will never forget it
Yeah one of his chats filled in missing pieces of the puzzle for me about Wing Chun
For me too. I myself was training in this lineage in Sydney and there was always talk of what he could do. I was a teenager and working as a bouncer at the time. so I didn't believe in any 'internal' things.
That all changed very quickly as soon as I met him in sydney in 2003, and right then and there I decided to come to Hong Kong to learn from him.
Eventhough he was 70+ yrs. old at the time, his power was shocking and his humility heart warming. It was something I had to be a part of...
Thanks for sharing the video Nima!
Based on what CST said about the intention of just a thought and nim tao state of just visualising the movement but not adding extra effort.
Does this seem similar to what Bruce Lee wrote in his tao of gung fu book around wu-hsin (no-mindess) and wu-wei (non-doing)?
Hi David, yes if Bruce was talking about not thinking but rather intending using feeling. This can not be achieved through thinking...
Watching Sigungs video now I can see more of what he is doing now and the changes in the people he is setting up. Each time I train with you in Hongkong it is a clear eye opener and progession.
I can highly recommend to visit you and experience that first hand with Sifu Nima King and his team.
that's a great sign that the state is becoming more and more recognizable for you.
And yeah nothing can beat the hands on training as its the quickest way to get a taste of the feeling and therefore grasp an experiential understanding (rather than a mere intellectual one).
I personally watched and practiced at length alone “single stickn arm “ 😅. ( favorite exercise)
I found old tapes of him teaching by “simple king fu”.
The “disconnect but connect “ of the “ upward bong “ will pinpoint this ( in shoulder ) along with your balance .
As always coach 🙏thank you!!!
Your the best NIMA 👑
I heard you make a comment in a video one time and you said “ I hope you’ve been practicing single hand because there is a reason it is there ) thank you 🙏
It's great to hear that you're enjoying the practice of Single sticking hands and finding its gem of benefits. It really is an important exercise that many neglect and rush over or misunderstand its purpose. 👍🏻
Hey Nima, nice vid, I have little time for social media. But it seems like a little what I teach my boys.
I've always believed the body interacted with a globalised sensitised and neural and physical conduit. I try teach them to listen to it physically with the mind and not debate it. 😂
I give em a lot of analogies to relax the body. It's fun👍
The mind force debate versus what's chi was a big ball busting debate for Sifu Jim and Sifu Albert in the early days 😂😂😂
I felt sorry for them
😂😂😂
When you say deceptive you hit the nail on the head lol 🎉
Yeah even until he passed away, CST was clear that he didn't know and couldn't explain what the flow was that he could feel, and transmit to some of us who were able to receive it to relax.
But what he did always highlight is that its an ability everyone has and they just need to learn to use the mind to guide it after they have achieved a high enough level of relaxation ans opening of the body.
@@MindfulWingChun it's very interesting. When I was little and listened to the instructors talk about it or Sifu Jim Talk about it I just say it intrigued me a great deal. Always. Im pretty sure I have in my old archives a video where Sigung said he allowed himself to be tested and that the results pointed to a part of the brain we don't use consciously but that he was able to activate it at will... Probably not intentionally but he made it work....
I cant seem to find it on the net but I'm sure I have it somewhere.. Anyway nice
@sifpaulfernandezthewingchundao no he wasn't tested scientifically. He was set to be tested and then he got diagnosed with cancer and was asked not to fly out of HK (it was going to take place in Australia).
He just felt that he is activating the back part of the brain. It's what he felt, so not scientifically proven. He did say that the activity of the front lobe and analytical part of the brain decreases and that we can't 'think' our way into this state.
@@MindfulWingChun Ok so I misunderstood it because I think I had a little trouble understating the translation texts. Yeh I think I know what he means... Anyway one tries....
My GMM as well. He was next level. Was fortunate enough to train with him a few times and some of his senior students.
Who is your gmaster?
@@Filippo-the-original-one Duh! Who else but, GM Chu Shong Tin.
nice, did you come to Hong Kong and train with him or was it what he came over to Australia?
@@MindfulWingChun He came to Sydney a number of times in the 90s.
@ultravirez Yes he did. You trained at Jim Fungs or Susana's? If at Jim Fungs we probably trained together in the 90s
Love the CST method!!
So do I. It's a gem 💎
I am in Connecticut and we're is your school ,i am looking for one closer to me if possible,
Hi Calvin, Unfortunately we don't have any schools from this lineage in the States yet. That's why we put the online school together and there are many online students from the states and some meet up for training together.
If you haven't checked it out, visit www.mindfulwingchun.online
good video very informative keep em coming 😊
Thanks Jason. It's a pleasure as always, and we'll be sure to keep em coming.
A real master of Ving Tsun !
💯
He was also a great human being. Humble, selfless and compassionate
thanks!
always a pleasure, Rick
There is often talk in martial arts circles about styles that harness the so-called internal force, with a clear distinction drawn between external and internal martial arts. But what does this really mean?
In my humble opinion, there is no internal or external. Ultimately, it’s all about how you align and structure your body, and how you utilize your tissues and muscles. The human body contains anywhere between 600 and 840 muscles, depending on how they're counted. Are we consciously engaging all of them, or just a select few?
Then there's the concept of "Chi" (or "Qi"), a vital energy that, according to Eastern traditions, animates the body. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), qi is divided into two main aspects: the tangible, physical qi derived from air, water, and food, and the more elusive, energetic qi that flows through the body’s channels. This latter form of qi is often cited as the source of internal power.
From my perspective, the true essence of internal and/or external (that are the same) force lies in how efficiently we use our body’s energy-whether it’s the energy generated by muscles, tendons, or other bodily structures. The distinction isn’t so much between internal or external, but rather about how effectively we harness our body’s inherent energy. It’s all about mastering your body’s structure and utilizing this energy to execute movements with maximum efficiency.
Mark is Teaching in Sheffield 🇬🇧 Thanks for uploading Nima.🙏
Yup, Mark and Dan are doing great work passing on their knowledge at Sung Wing Chun. You training with them?
"Extending until it feels like there is no arm."
There is no spoon, welcome to The Matrix.🙏
Yeah that was the main point of his teachings in the last couple of years of his life "no arms, no legs". He said you lose the sense of separation between the limbs and the body and therefore the body feels like one unified thing (and there is sense of emptiness).
Do you know the characters for nim lik and I missed what the translation is
The translation is 'Mind Force' or 'the power from intention'
Thank you
The real sifu who reached the highest level with never show their true power, most students aren't to be trusted they don't put the work or stay long enough
This is where Chu Shong Tin was very different. He would put it on display and let us film in day in day out. Just because people see it doesn't mean they can do it though. Thats why we put his entire teachings online on our online school and go through it step by step. But even then, the only way is to practice it. Those with bad character usually will not be able to get it because they aren't able to 'let go' of deep levels of mental and physical tension. Hence why this is potentially a transformational practice which can tame a person to the core and make an angry or violent man and bring peace into his/her life. I know this from personal experience
@@MindfulWingChun this is beautifully put, I often found in practice that the desire to add more power/damage/violence hampers the actual release of that force, because something changes in the mind and therefore changes in the body
When you practice Siu Nim Tao you’re already searching for the most efficient way to deliver through release, so any time you try to add something, you’re actually taking away
With the Sung Wing Chun boys this weekend
Nice one Mike! Send them my best and have fun.
Is are people like big Mark and Eddie still making appearances there? how about Ada?
Big Mark and Eddie are here. Daniel Parr, Mark Ho, and Jon Jones are doing their thing.
I find that a slight variation of the Shaolin exercise 'beating the drum': ua-cam.com/video/2lgN5DdUsR4/v-deo.html - is really excellent for demonstrating this to people.
thanks, yeah that's a different kind of practice