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Wing Chun Footwork - It's Not Chinese Dancing!

"So, what's the new dance step you're doing,low that your mobility gets hampered. Now, I
Yoshi?"know, everyone who does martial arts has
heard about this stance, or that stance. And
Yeah, I hear that all the time. Even fromunless you're working in front of a mirror,
people who should know better. You probablyyou'll do the sloppiest stance you can get
do as well, particularly if you do footworkaway with without your sparring partner
for Wing Chun. Wing Chun, or "Chinesekicking you a new one. What I found
Dancing" is a soft style with a stronginteresting about Wing Chun is that the form
philosophical bent to it. The namedrills (San Sik is what they're called)
originally came from the ideograms for "EverREALLY emphasize fluid motions. Let me tell
Spring", and it's appropriate. I was gettingyou, doing it right - you're going to sweat.
tired of walking with bruises and pulledAnd the muscles in your quads and hams are
muscles, and needed to switch to a softergoing to burn...but my word, is the end
style while I was recovering. I like Kung Furesult worth it. Those forms become second
styles, so learning Wing Chun was likenature, like they're learned by your knees
falling off a log. Only without as muchand hips, and you just do them - once the
falling, or as many punches to the sternum.pain  has  gone  away.
Though the joint locks did remind me I was
doing a real martial art. (One piece ofOf course, everyone will be talking about
advice - anyone who says "Hey, let me showyour new dance steps, but Wing Chun footwork
you a joint lock!" is a sadist. Just saypays for itself nicely - since going into it,
"no". Really.) In some ways, Wing Chun isI've been much more conscious of how my bent
like the early forms exercises you do forknees increase my reach with punches and
Kung Fu, only carried to their logicalelbow strikes, and it's been a lot harder to
extreme, rather than used as the fundamentalsthrow me to the mat in Jiu Jitsu. The parts
of  a  hard  style.I've had to compensate for from the footwork
I've learned have been in mobility. It's
What drew me to Wing Chung, aside from thesometimes possible to "plant" too hard -
sprained wrist on my primary punching hand,which makes it tempting to break stance to
was the fluid footwork that its practitionersgive pursuit, particularly when you're
had. Well, OK. It was the fluid footworkflowing from a down block and trying to
that I saw in Jet Li's movies, while waitingtransition into a kick - at that point, the
for the cast to come off. Even so, just fromWing Chun footwork has to kind of "skip a
watching the movies, I could see immediatebeat" while you move back to a harder Kung Fu
uses for Wing Chun footwork in my repertoirekick.
of techniques once my wrist healed. Wing
Chun footwork focuses on balance - more soEither way, I'm glad I took the time to learn
than with a strong kicking style, which canthis. It's given me a good base to work
leave you very exposed trying for a circlefrom, and a few more tricks to throw into
kick.sparring matches. Particularly fun is when
someone makes fun of the dance steps and then
In particular, the footwork demands that youcomes up to me and says "How'd you do that,
settle in a low stance, but not one that's soYoshi?



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