(grunts)
- Now, as you can see,
Wing Chun, can soft structure really stop hard
and powerful techniques and attacks?
The answer is yes, but,
and there is a big but.
(electronic music)
In Wing Chun, we talk about you wanna be soft,
you wanna be relaxed.
You don't wanna be tense because no power comes from that.
Yes and yes, and when Shin is trying to punch me,
I could, see I am very, very relaxed do it slow.
You can see that, yeah, I could redirect the force
and I'm relaxed.
Yes, that's fine,
as a demonstration of soft structure,
I can redirect the force.
However, when you apply this on the street,
it's a very different story.
Number one, if Shin try to punch me twice, watch.
See?
Boom, very typical, right?
A jab.
(exhales)
Two jabs right there, very typical in boxing.
All right, try to do a jab and hook.
Boom, right there.
Got my head right there, knocked out.
So, yes, soft structure is good.
You can stop it.
Myself, I much prefer a soft and hard approach,
depends on the circumstances.
In Chinese Kung-fu, there's a saying,
(speaking in foreign language).
It means, speed defines the winner,
and power defines the winner.
So, you wanna hit fast, you wanna hit hard,
you wanna hit more accurately, right?
So, instead of waiting for the soft structure,
or hard structure, or whatever,
as he puts his hand up, I'm gonna go in.
Now, I'm still relaxed,
but there is power.
I want him to feel something.
I'm not trying to do the Tai Chi thing.
If you watch the clip,
let me show you a clip for a second here.
(speaking in foreign language)
(crowd yells)
(speaking in foreign language)
(punches)
- [Man] Hey, come on, get him up.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Now, as you can see that's the Chinese tai chi master.
He's not actually a Chinese tai chi master,
but let's call him a Chinese tai chi master,
because the real masters are
really, really, very, very good,
he's not that good.
So, verus the MMA guy.
Now, all the soft stuff, oh, that is good,
but when some guy is trying to punch your head,
trying to hurt you,
where is all the soft stuff?
As I always learn from my SIFU,
all the kung fu,
This is great.
This is kung fu.
This, primal instincts, when we are getting hit
every single human being,
I don't care if you train for 30 years,
it does not matter.
'Cause this part of the brain
is thousands of years.
What we do when we hit,
you flinch.
You're like this, you're like this.
(grunts)
You flinch, and that's what happens.
All the kung fu is gone after this point.
All the kung fu looks very good in here.
Oh, this looks good, this looks good, all this shit.
No, so what we wanna train is,
before this stuff happens,
you want to attack.
Soft, hard, doesn't matter because when I am going in,
I'm soft.
But that, here,
this stuff here I'm soft, I'm soft.
But this, this hard, right?
When you have that continuous forward pressure onto the guy.
Soft-hard, soft-hard.
Same thing with the left side, right?
He's giving me pressure, right?
I'm not fighting force with force.
He gives me pressure, right?
It's soft but there's that moment of hard.
See that again, push, right?
It's soft but there's hard.
Then there is that kind of stuff, then soft and hard again.
So, it's not soft-hard structure,
forget that kind of argument.
It's not the point.
It's, you gotta use your body,
sometimes you got to relax, sometimes you gotta go hard,
but your state is calm.
Your state, inside, is soft,
outside, sometimes it's hard
sometimes outside is soft.
Like a tai chi guy, outside is soft, inside is hard.
So, it is not about structure,
it's not about soft structure,
timing, accuracy, power, practice those things.
Don't argue this.
When someone throws a punch at you,
and if you block it, he is not gonna say
"Oh, you didn't use your soft structure" or
"Didn't use your hard structure"
Just knock your head and hit the guy, for God's sake, right?
I don't care, oh yeah, it's 30% soft and
70% hard or it's 50/50.
It doesn't matter.
The punch comes in if I am doing any kind of things
this is soft, this is hard, nobody cares.
Just hit the guy.
That's it.
Soft structure,
yes it could stop the punch
but when you are nervous, when you have adrenaline running,
when you are like this, when you are getting hit,
all this stuff is out of the window.
Primal instinct takes over, you wanna train that.
You wanna train that.
That's what this video is about.
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