- Wing Chun for beginners,
and today, I'm gonna show you,
the basic Wing Chun Stance,
just like the tower that you saw,
without the foundation you cannot build a skyscraper.
The Wing Chun Stance is the very foundation of
the entire Wing Chun system.
And today, I'm gonna show you the proper way of doing it.
And also the common mistakes that people make,
when it comes to Wing Chun Stance.
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Let's get started,
now you will start with your foot like this way,
neutral and the way you do it, now,
we all have different height.
So, what you wanna do is, you wanna open up like that.
As wide as you could, and then
you would do one more pivot, like so, like that.
You're pointing inward,
now the Wing Chun Stance in Chinese,
from, in Cantonese term, I was born in Hong Kong side,
speak Cantonese, Yee Ji Kim Yeung Ma.
In order to understand the Wing Chun system or
the the Wing Chun Stance you have to understand the history.
Where that came from, if you wanna learn something,
to master something, you have to know,
not just from your Sifu, your instructor,
but where this stuff came from man.
How they came about, it will give you
a much better understanding.
So, Yee Ji Kim Yeung Ma, Yee Ji in Chinese,
it means, the letter, the number two.
In Chinese the number two looks like this,
it has horizontal line, another horizontal line.
So you notice this stance, like that, if you can imagine,
the two, the two here, one horizontal line,
another horizontal line at the bottom, like so.
That looks like a two in Chinese language.
Yee Ji Kim Yeung Ma, it means
Ma means stand.
Kim Yeung means actually you are kinda like
riding and squeezing a sheep.
Yeung means sheep in Chinese.
Yee Ji, so use the two, use your foot, your two word,
two letter, two number, squeeze the sheep stance.
What the hell does that mean?
You have to understand this is not the way that
you fight in Wing Chun.
I saw a lot of Wing Chun practitioners,
they go and they fight like this.
You can't fucking move this way.
This is designed, you have to understand
hundreds and hundred years ago,
there's no fucking YouTube.
Well, how do people pass down knowledge?
They have to come up with terms, come up with words,
there's no motion picture.
Hey you know what?
Let's think of this as like you're squeezing a sheep.
Easier to remember, we remember that.
And also, you're not gonna squeeze a sheep this way.
Your force, all that is internal, you're squeezing in,
that's your foundation, for people to remember.
Oh, that's okay, I got that.
You have to understand back then,
martial arts is actually a career.
People, like martial artists, they would protect,
people who have like business people, transportation,
it's actually a skill, kill people not getting killed.
Back then it's actually a career, right?
So people take that very very seriously.
And in order to learn the art,
they have to do it something like this.
One more time, very important, here, open up, like that.
Now, if you do it like that then that's too wide, right?
You can see this, it's not a Karate Stance, right?
It's not Karate Stance.
So, from here, should be almost little bit slightly
wider than your shoulder.
Like so, but your force, your focus,
this is internal, this is internal.
It's not like this, it's not like this.
And it's not like this.
And let me turn to the side.
Common mistake people make, when they do the stance,
the Wing Chun Stance, they do it too much like that.
See I'm off balance, it's all good if I too much like this?
That's not good, right?
Neutral, and you kinda sit on it,
do you hear, your butt.
You sit on it, you should be a sit for hours.
Like that, when you do your form.
So, goes back to why they used this stance.
Back then, remember, Wing Chun, Canton,
from Canton to history, this is the underground art.
The government banned.
So a lot of Wing Chun practitioners,
a lot of martial arts masters,
they were actually riding on the, what do you call the,
red boat, a lot came from that, they were the one,
back then was fighting the government, right?
So they have to practice, and here's the thing,
when you're on a boat, the boat's wobbling,
and you don't have a lot of space,
we're talking about those kinda boat,
made of wood, so they need a stance,
where they could practice, and back then,
they don't have a lot of equipment.
What this stance is designed to do,
is designed to be a weighted vest.
A weighted vest, because if they just practice like this,
is one thing, but you do it like this,
you have to learn to explode from this position, right?
That's what it's designed to do,
it's not designed to fight like this,
it's designed to, just like,
you're not gonna fight like this.
Wing Chun people see, the Wing Chun guy like this,
right, they think, "Okay, let's fight like,
fucking like this."
This is fucking painting a wall.
It's a dictionary, it's designed to show you an idea.
What the philosophy is, and how the techniques work.
It's not how you fight.
This is not how you fight, okay?
So keep that in mind, it's a weighted vest.
You learn from here, this, this, right?
You learn to explode, that's what it's designed to do.
That is what that's designed to do.
So, let's make this stance, like so.
Weight, here focus this, internal, internal,
not this, not too high, your center of gravity,
not too low, not too high, neutral.
Drop your shoulders, relax, just like that.
Then you do this, you do your form.
Right, then you do your form.
Then you do your form, same,
like all the stuff that you do is all here, right,
all the stuff that you do is all from here.
This takes years to master.
It does, that's not how you fight but
you gotta learn this.
This is no good, that's no good,
to a point where you don't really have to,
at first you kinda do it through this way,
but really you can do it any time.
I can be doing like this, right,
right, right, you can do all of that, from there,
Yee Ji Kim Yeung Ma, that's the Wing Chun Stance.
So, practice it, look at the details,
feel your center of gravity, feel your balance,
are you off balance, are you like this or,
You have to feel the balance, right,
just like this, remember, it's a weighted vest,
you don't fight like this,
you don't get into a fighting stance like this,
cause fucking, your groin is open your throat is open,
you don't wanna do that,
but it's a good foundation,
just like how you feel the skyscraper,
that's where you start.
Practice it, practice well.
Comment below if you any other questions about this stance.
This is a new Wing Chun series that I am creating.
In the next few weeks,
I'm gonna show you the basic Wing Chun blocks,
I'm gonna show you the basic Wing Chun strikes,
because I'm getting a lot of questions,
not just from people all over the world,
not just people interested in who's this Martial Artist,
but people actually particularly interested in Wing Chun.
Wing Chun's a big part of my martial arts career.
I've studied under four different Wing Chun instructors.
All four from Yi Men.
And so, I am a huge Wing Chun fan,
although what I do today,
I have evolved as a martial artist,
but Wing Chun is definitely one of my foundation.
My foundation art for sure.
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