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- Wing Chun for beginners, Tan Sao.
Tan Sao is one of the basic, foundational Wing Chun
technique and today I'm going to show you
the proper way of doing it, also the wrong way of doing it.
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So, Tan Sao, you've seen it in a He-Man movie,
you've seen it all the time, the Tan Sao
very very important because usually Tan Sao it's
used to defend the hook punch right? Or the sucker punch,
which is one of the most common attacks in North America.
Right? It's the sucker punch like that,
or something like that, right? So how do you do it?
When you do it wrong, what happens is, this thing,
will slip through. You don't want to find out the hard way.
I found out the hard way.
So, with the Wing Chun Tan Sao, the proper way again
would be the Wing Chun stance from here.
Very important that you focus on the elbow.
So we'll do like that. I'll show Shin,
and then I'll show you how to do as well.
So from here, I'm not going this way, okay?
I'm not going this way, I'm going in the center.
And the focus is not on here, okay?
That's a amateur Wing Chun practitioner,
they focus on the hand, focus always on the elbow.
So you notice, my focus, my intention is on the,
and this is relaxed. This is not tight,
it's not too loose either it just relaxed.
And you can see, it's my elbow coming in.
Imagine something is pushing you,
my elbow coming in, like that, watch.
And I'm do it slow. You can see.
See how the center and it's like this.
Okay, like that. See how this protects my centerline.
Now, here's why it's so critical.
If I go this way, you see how, I explained it this morning,
this is not a proper structure.
It has to go from center, from center, like that okay?
Like that. Now what happens is, I'll show you this angle.
A lot of people when they practice the Tan Sao,
the tendency of, this thing is so scary,
let me make sure I go that way.
You see how, I'm doing like that?
'Cause I'm scared, oh let me make sure do that
'cause it's human nature. Now what happens is
if I do it like that wrong structure, okay push me Shin.
You see that? See what happens? One more time.
You see that? My whole body just shifted,
because my structure is wrong.
Now let me do it this way, like if I do it this way, watch.
Watch. You see that? Watch. 'Cause my elbow's all out right?
Now the difference is, don't even push, see the difference.
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This is much more intimidating. This is an attack.
It's actually not a defense. First you need to learn
to use how to defend, but this is an attack.
You felt, something is right? Is here, is here.
You cannot do that if I'm doing this.
I cannot do that if I'm doing that.
It's an attack, right, it is an attack.
So, Tan Sao, from here, another thing you want to look for,
your finger. You do not wanna have lazy fingers.
Some people do the Tan Sao like this, they do it like that.
No. Imagine you're holding like a plate.
Hold it like a plate and your thumb needs to be in.
Now, why do you want a thumb to be in?
Because you don't know, if your thumb is out,
what if you miss? You miss, you break your thumb.
It's in, tucked in...
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See? It's okay. So if I'm hitting, if I miss, it's okay.
But if here I miss, this is broken.
That's why they design it like that. Right?
Think it's like a spear, like so. So, this...
Angle, very critical. This is no good.
This is no good, 45 degrees,
basically put a fist underneath your,
kinda your rib. That's roughly the distance.
That's roughly the distance.
You have to get all these details correctly
because when you executing these techniques,
you notice very minor things makes a big difference.
Let me demonstrate. So Shin do it like that.
Now, looks okay, now I want you to just feel the difference.
I'm gonna kinda push you a little bit, okay?
Now you feel that, just like that, okay? Watch.
See, feel that? Now, look, all I'm going to
adjust is this. This is the same.
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You feel a difference? It's this much and this much.
Suddenly this, more stable. Okay, now go back to that.
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It's everything. This and this makes a difference.
This, this much makes a difference. That makes a difference.
Here, this much makes a difference.
And that's why you see He-Man and his later years,
you see some of these old footage,
He-Man just doing the Tan Sao slowly.
This is actually a form of meditation,
When you're doing similar to the little idea,
He-Man used to say, he would do this for one hour,
he would do it like super slow, like I'm talking super,
like do you see how slow that is?
Like really slow, because I'm practicing my intention,
I'm practicing the motor mechanic,
I'm gonna do it when it's relaxed.
So view the difference. Now if I'm doing it like tense,
even my form is correct so, push me Shin.
See that? One more time, push me.
Since I'm all tight, so you gotta relax your shoulder.
Relax your shoulder, relax your shoulder.
Right? This is like a bamboo, it's relaxed, it's firm,
just like a bamboo but it's not tense.
So when Shin is doing this, make sure,
do the Tan Sao, this has to relax.
Feel my shoulder, see how this is tense?
And see how it's like, like you see this part is tense?
Now I'm gonna relax bit by bit, watch my intention.
First relax my finger, then relax my forearm,
then relax my shoulder, gonna relax, bit by bit,
and I'm gonna relax my hip, gonna relax my body.
You see how from-- - Yeah
- Each inch, you can do it every part of your body.
People see this, oh it's just this thing. Hell no, no.
Every part of it you can practice it,
it's almost a form of meditation.
You learn to feel you body, oh my elbow mm,
I'm focusing too much on my finger,
let me go back to my elbow. Now watch this.
So, do it, focus on the, see, focus on the finger.
Right now, relax the finger, focus on the elbow,
now he's not focused too much on the shoulder.
Relax the shoulder. Okay, go focus on the elbow, yes.
Now relax a little bit. Ah, that's good.
Uh huh, see you have to go through it, where you go.
You see that? It's tough to explain just through camera,
but when you practice, you know. That's the basic Tan Sao.
Now application, how to do it.
So when someone throws a punch, you do a Tan Sao,
you do not do your Tan Sao through, try to do it like that
'cause you get hit, this itself should be an attack.
So if I just very defensively, go ahead and push, harder.
See that, right? So swing harder. See how that?
That's how people got hit. The Wing Chun got,
They got it, what the hell my thing doesn't work.
No, this, is an attack, right? Hit again.
This is an attack. See, it stops the guy.
And if you practice your wooden dummy, one more time.
This should, he should feel something
- Yeah. - Right, and it's the angle,
here's the thing, if I'm too late,
so I'm gonna do it real late watch. I got hit, See that?
I do it too early, that's no good.
It's the right timing and it's very simple,
look at the arm, see this, this is too late,
this is too early, I'm looking,
I don't care about this angle, I'm looking at this,
this is like a bar, I need to stop.
See how this is a cross? I wanna cut through this,
because I'm not gonna stop it here, I'm gonna get hit.
I'm gonna stop here, it's too early.
It's this, across, the angle, so hit.
Hit as hard as you could. As hard as you could.
As hard as you could. See it's relaxed.
I'm not, again, I'm not (cringes) right? I'm like that.
Now, one more time as hard as you could.
If I put in a little bit more stuff,
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just little bit more right?
- It's red. - Yeah. Just a little bit more
gain, a little bit more internal power, it hurts.
Now I do it this way, I also like to do it this way.
Which, you can do the Tan Sao this way,
you can also do it, just flip it over, like that.
I prefer this myself, because you see if he hits,
This, I like this thing, right here is ready to go.
So I might get hit, I hit here, and then here,
that's to this right? So I like that.
From here, here, I like that directness.
This takes a little bit more time but, it's okay
some people do it like this, they do the palm strike,
but that's the Tan Sao. Now when you're practicing,
your partner, so I'll do some, a couple to Shin so
he block like that right? And here this way.
So just practice, very simple drill.
And experiment, I try it like this, you try it like this,
try it with a finger out point, try it just to feel it.
See? Go through right? Yeah just feel that right?
Just feel, oh maybe I'll experiment this way,
and feel that yourself. And think of the power
is not a force, think of you're tossing a coin. Right?
So one more time, I do it wrong. Do it.
This is wrong. Okay, see that? One more time.
This is wrong right? One more time.
This is wrong, see how I'm off balance?
Too tense, relax, watch. Toss a coin.
I'm tossing a coin. Do you see that, it's like
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I'm not pushing it. One more time.
He's tossing a coin. That's all, tossing.
This, like this thing,
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I'm just, right, I'm just
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Right? I'm not gonna just, you're tossing a coin.
This stuff, you look like oh, it's so, no power.
Come, let me just slap you around. It's a lot of power man.
This thing, and I was just using finger,
there was no palm strike, there was no bottom mechanic,
there wasn't my body, we are just like hey man, boom.
It's a lot of power. Slap someone like that or like,
it's a lot of power. So there you go.
That's the Wing Chun basic technique Tan Sao.
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