- Come on Dan!
You can do better than this.
(grunts)
(laughing)
- Oh that's good.
That's good.
(energetic Asian music)
- Bruce Lee's JKD Chi Sao.
This is one of the most requested videos from you.
So today we are gonna show you exactly how
to do the double sticky hand
and why do we do it and what's it for.
Now SiFu, obviously we're not fighting this way.
- Right.
- So what's the purpose of this particular exercise?
- It's one of the best energy exercises you can do
to understand how your opponent's pressure
is up against you.
If you were actually grabbed,
then you could use it against them.
So in confined, close quarters
they can utilize this against your opponent.
If it gives you too much pressure on one end,
you can utilize the tools on the other.
It's just a matter of feeling the pressure
that he's giving you, whether it's on the ground
or standing or getting clenched
or getting pushed, it's a good exercise.
I don't see how you would eliminate this
from your actual routine,
because if you've actually seen videos of Bruce Lee,
him doing that with James Coburn,
if you've seen that in the 70s.
Then you also see a picture of John Saxon
on the set of Into the Dragon.
So you can tell that he was continually doing Chi Sao,
whether it was on the set or he believed in it
in some way or another.
So it has to be done.
I would consider it a good tool
because we can't all be fast.
You're gonna get collided with somebody.
He's gonna take you down and what are you gonna do?
If somebody gets ahold of you, you can't just disengage
and be at, ya know.
You can't be super fast and expect your tools
to work at certain ranges.
So Chi Sao is a great close range tut sao energy exercise.
- I almost feel like when I first learned it in Wing Chun
versus tut sao even auto striking artist,
as boxing or even JKD that, I think,
without sticky hands, without Chi Sao
you don't get kinda the very essential part of JKD.
- Yes.
- Because you learn how to flow.
You learn how to continue
the movement - Right.
- Versus it's one, two.
- Yes.
- And you learn to deal with different structure.
And different energy.
I just don't know how you can develop
that without this key exercise.
So SiFu, for someone learning this, brand new,
what's the basic stands or hand positions.
- So it depends on where you're gonna position this elbow
that allows you to maintain good leverage
because if you pull this in too tight then you lose
the right muscles off of your arm,
so you want it to be where it's aligned with your clavicle
here and your shoulder helmet.
If we're speaking of Tan Sao, now,
if the audience isn't familiar with what I'm doing here,
outside of the artist that do, okay?
I'm not gonna go into detail of what you can
or you can't do or whatever.
I mean, just as many as there is Filipino arts out there
and many islands that do different type of stick exercises,
you're gonna find the same thing in Chi Sao.
- So many different techniques.
- Exactly.
So, if there's base principles behind Chi Sao.
So, if I were to start somebody from the beginning
is that I would have them hold their two hands out this way.
The palms are up, okay?
And they're not too low and they're not too high.
They're just about this much going forward, okay?
You imagine that you're applying forward energy.
So in the case, this way, if you were facing me,
I was facing you.
We both are working together.
Our knees are bent.
We're solidifying our foundation.
Our heels are driving into the ground
and our hips are above that foundation.
We're not sticking our butt out.
We're just keeping it about here.
Now, my elbows are in just slightly,
going towards your center.
Not in the center of your chest,
but behind your chest.
So it's about right here and I'm giving you a little bit
of pressure there, right?
You're doing the same to me.
You're giving me pressure as well.
So we're both canceling each other out
and I would hold this static position for awhile.
So we just hold it, ya know, maybe 10 seconds, right?
So we get the feeling and the pressure.
- You may, you may not see this because this has got a feel.
It might look like we just kinda put our two hands here,
but there is actually forward pressure going forward
and that's why you have to do this with an instructor,
with a partner.
It's a sensitivity thing.
- Correct.
Now in a line of attack,
if I'm obstructing his path
and I was gonna give him something to work with,
I'm gonna say, "Dan, I'm gonna disengage this arm
"and what I want you to do is feel that it is empty,"
but because you have forward energy it should
automatically go forward.
That's it.
So that's a disengagement.
I'm just not holding static pressure there.
- Yes.
- He can still hit me from here.
My defense isn't any good,
but if you look at it from both angles,
he's offensive and so am I.
So if Dan disengaged in one arm I end up hitting.
So, that's the whole idea.
We're just in static position.
Boom! Right!
Every time there is emptiness, ya know?
Boom!
And we're just taking it at a time.
Now I'm gonna do it on him.
He needs to feel it.
Boom.
He needs to feel it and he can do it to me.
So then we're just working together and trying to find
that emptiness and going forward, okay?
And the whole idea behind the art is to press forward
Any time there's emptiness to press forward.
- Make sure you don't do too much of this.
It's still kinda the wrist area, because you don't feel as
much when you're like that.
It's bit too close to you. - Yeah yeah.
- So it's like this, right?
You can see.
- This is about the range you wanna be when you're training.
- This is pointing.
The energy's forward.
You gotta feel it.
You have to feel.
It looks like we're doing this, but this is going on.
The intention is forward.
- Alright good.
So, this is the beginning basis.
Now on Chi Sao on the other hand,
to start doing the rotation takes time.
You're not gonna get it.
So, normally, what we would do is just one hand, okay?
Now Dan's really good at Bong Sao.
He already understands this and he's gonna go
and raise that elbow as I apply forward energy.
The intent is to attack him, here.
This is ready to engage.
(laughing) Finger jab.
If this wasn't here it's going right to his eyes.
Some people do this.
They pull the wrist back
for a controlled, yes, this way.
I happen to like this method, okay?
It's to make sure that once he disengages
that this is gonna fire, whether it's a palm
or whether it's a strike or this way.
It's the same idea here, it's that I'm just hitting
every single time.
So with one hand he's gonna go tan sao on the return
and I stay attached, okay?
Boom.
Now it's maintaining forward energy still here.
I'm not gonna go disengage like this.
He's just gonna follow it.
So again, I go forward and back, relax.
Forward, back, relax, forward, back, relax.
It doesn't look much like Dan says.
It's hard to tell on camera.
- Also, this hand you can see the difference, right?
Right there.
So, forward energy.
See it goes forward energy.
So I do that.
- Very subtle motions.
- If I'm too low, this is where it goes in.
If I'm too high, then that goes in.
It's no good either.
So exactly like that.
So you should be able to do this for a long time
just like that.
I'm not too tense like if I'm doing it wrong.
I'm not lifting weight.
I'm not trying to lift weight.
That's no good.
SiFu can totally feel that (laughing)
and he would use that against me.
Boom, right there, right?
Then I lose it.
So you're trying to be neutral.
- So one good way of obtaining the exercise
where I at least building the shoulder strength
and this is very well done in the
jing gang kung fu circles, right?
So we go forward and it applies for pressure here.
- You learn this on your shoulder.
Again, you can see the angle from my hand here
and basically I'm doing a double bong sao right here,
double bong sao and then tan sao forward, right?
- Yes.
- You don't want to be too much like this.
- Right. - That too no good.
This is no good.
This the angle right here.
- Yes. - Let's see.
We can also demonstrate from this side.
- Sure.
- You can see the angles low and boom.
- Again, I press forward.
- This is forward.
- Here. - Forward.
Forward.
- And then Dan should be giving me a little bit
of pressure too at the same time.
- See, if it's working, it's working the shoulders too.
So you can see there.
Yeah.
And you can see the elbow.
To continue, I can feel the energies always moving forward.
There's no up and down.
It's forward, forward.
And it's not even a retraction kind of energy,
because I would feel that.
So this is, I feel this is very threatening
to me all the time, all the time, right?
So SiFu after they do this and after they get used to that
and how would they start rolling?
- So if, to start it off, and again, you don't want
to continue you moving,
otherwise you might create bad habits.
So I would do one rotation first, okay?
Hold it.
Find your position.
Understand where you're at.
Make sure you're correct, okay?
And then make sure these are at least close together.
You want to think about this as a three dimensional sphere.
Hold on to this position, find out where you're at.
Make sure this isn't too low.
Make sure this isn't colliding together.
- Because then you can do that, right?
If I do that too close together, SiFu will just do that.
- That's right.
So if I'm here I just want to maintain this structure.
Anytime he gives me a gap, again, that's my cue to attack
and if you can't see it on that side,
actually let's rotate this one.
- Maybe also do it in front of the camera.
- Okay, so if you're here.
Okay, each time, yeah.
And this elbow's in if I'm here.
- See the finger pointing towards you.
- Right.
So then in that case if,
can you make it like that?
Sorry.
(chuckling)
About right here.
You can fire right there.
You see that?
Boom.
There ya go.
Drop it low and that's when you hit.
That's it.
Somebody too low he just fires.
- So it's a feeling.
It's not SiFu is telling me,
"Oh, he's too low," and hit me.
It's I can feel there's an opening.
The opponent is dropping his hand.
There's an opening.
- Yeah and there's a big piece behind all this.
This isn't about just learning this, tan sao.
Am I gonna really use this in fight?
Am I gonna use this in a fight?
You gotta look at these as tools, as a ability to utilize
this position in case something happens
and just for the sake of you understanding,
if you were to punch down this is gonna end up attacking.
If he was to drop down in one way or another
I could drop this right into the neck.
- Are you gonna try to attack me?
- Even if he tried to attack I'm gonna hit that neck.
Now I can still utilize my legs to actually sustain
or at least maintain the structure behind what I need to do
and still blast, okay?
So again, this is very important if you start
to know how this moves, then you can start working into
what's called the five ways of attack in Chi Sao.
Now, important to realize that you understand that stuff
here as well as from a distance
and that's how you utilize Chi Sao in totality.
- So I think that's a good introduction to
double hand sticky hand Chi Sao.
In the next video we're gonna show you some
of the techniques and how to actually hit the guy,
how to do block and more some of the drills involved,
but for now, I think just practice the single hand
Chi Sao and then kinda the drill.
Get used to that, find a partner.
You need some little bit of time.
SiFu, would you say a couple of months
just to get used to it.
- It may take you up to three months just to get you
coordinated with this.
It just depends on how much time you're gonna put into it.
Don't be lazy.
- Yeah, don't be lazy.
So, practice that first.
Comment below if you have any questions.
Again, this is a drill, I think, is so important to JKD.
The sensitivity, the tut tao, the reflexes.
That's when you can hit without thinking,
when you see senses aopening and see see SiFu move
you just know.
"Oh, I see an opening!
"Let me think about this."
None of that.
You just hit.
And like SiFu always says,
"It's through hitting you find the truth."
- And the best thing to do is find the best coach
to help you understand this.
You're gonna try it with your partner,
you're not gonna get the whole feeling
out of the entire thing.
- You need a good instructor to correct your posture,
your mistakes, right?
Okay!
Until next time, be well my friend.