Hi I´m Alex from Germany and am pretty new to Wing Chun. I really apreciate your effort in all those videos explaining all the difficult concepts of Wing Chun and sharing your Wisdom.
Your Videos really are helping me to gain deeper insight into the Wing Chun system and to see the underlying concepts which make the movements so powerful.
What I still don´t understand is why my sifu keeps telling us how important it is to keep most of the weight on our rear foot all the time. When we do footwork exercises we always have to concentrate on draging the rear foot and not shifting the weight to the front (because this is of great importance when we are in close combat if the the opponent tries to sweep our front foot).
Correct me if I´m wrong but I don´t see you dragging your foot, do you have a different method ?
We also have to control the leg of our partner by having contact with his leg and often do this mirror drill while having contact with the partners leg so we have to feel what he is doing.
Do you do that kind of exercise too?
hey Alex, sounds like you practice Leung Ting method. i don’t train his method so i really can’t say “why” he chose to do it this way. if you take a look at the new video on the #3 line of attack, i get into why the 60/40 stance works for me and why i wouldn’t put all my weight on my back leg. make sure to take a look at the video.
I wonder if it is a good strategy to have 90% of your weight on your rear leg while you are in long distance range but switching to 60% the moment you enter middle or close range….
Any thoughts? Maybe that is an unrealistic strategy…?
maintaining roughly a 50/50 stance allows you the freedom to move to your back leg or your front, which is what i do. but give it a try and see what works best for you
Sifu Jin’s answer above might seem diplomatic and peace-keeping ONLY. But if follow his advice, to find what works for YOU, it’s never wrong. If two methods of doing anything, are adequately explained/presented, and although both achieve the objective, but one works better for you…………………USE IT!
jin I noticed that when you advance with your front leg you put on the ground your heel first….When I did boxing they tought me, while advancing, to put my toes first and then the heel of my front foot…I mean…also when I jab to make the corkscrew motion to me is better to put my toes first on the ground and so my body pivot on my front foot toes…what’s your opinion?
thank you
bye
hmm..if you put your toes of the front foot down first, you are completely “floating” and have no stance, since the back leg is already on the ball of the foot. by placing the heel of the front foot down first, helps to maintain your balance, so that you are never on both balls of the feet at the same time.
this is called the “toe heel sway” which is the way it was taught to me. although many kicking arts do “hop” on both balls of the feet, they do this intentionally because they need the weight completely off their legs in order to kick quickly.
Hi I´m Alex from Germany and am pretty new to Wing Chun. I really apreciate your effort in all those videos explaining all the difficult concepts of Wing Chun and sharing your Wisdom.
Your Videos really are helping me to gain deeper insight into the Wing Chun system and to see the underlying concepts which make the movements so powerful.
What I still don´t understand is why my sifu keeps telling us how important it is to keep most of the weight on our rear foot all the time. When we do footwork exercises we always have to concentrate on draging the rear foot and not shifting the weight to the front (because this is of great importance when we are in close combat if the the opponent tries to sweep our front foot).
Correct me if I´m wrong but I don´t see you dragging your foot, do you have a different method ?
We also have to control the leg of our partner by having contact with his leg and often do this mirror drill while having contact with the partners leg so we have to feel what he is doing.
Do you do that kind of exercise too?
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Jin Reply:
January 27th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
hey Alex, sounds like you practice Leung Ting method. i don’t train his method so i really can’t say “why” he chose to do it this way. if you take a look at the new video on the #3 line of attack, i get into why the 60/40 stance works for me and why i wouldn’t put all my weight on my back leg. make sure to take a look at the video.
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Jin Reply:
January 27th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
my advice to you would be to practice it both ways and see what works best for you.
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I wonder if it is a good strategy to have 90% of your weight on your rear leg while you are in long distance range but switching to 60% the moment you enter middle or close range….
Any thoughts? Maybe that is an unrealistic strategy…?
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Jin Reply:
May 16th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
maintaining roughly a 50/50 stance allows you the freedom to move to your back leg or your front, which is what i do. but give it a try and see what works best for you
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Sifu Jin’s answer above might seem diplomatic and peace-keeping ONLY. But if follow his advice, to find what works for YOU, it’s never wrong. If two methods of doing anything, are adequately explained/presented, and although both achieve the objective, but one works better for you…………………USE IT!
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jin I noticed that when you advance with your front leg you put on the ground your heel first….When I did boxing they tought me, while advancing, to put my toes first and then the heel of my front foot…I mean…also when I jab to make the corkscrew motion to me is better to put my toes first on the ground and so my body pivot on my front foot toes…what’s your opinion?
thank you
bye
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Jin Reply:
May 16th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
hmm..if you put your toes of the front foot down first, you are completely “floating” and have no stance, since the back leg is already on the ball of the foot. by placing the heel of the front foot down first, helps to maintain your balance, so that you are never on both balls of the feet at the same time.
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Jin Reply:
May 16th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
this is called the “toe heel sway” which is the way it was taught to me. although many kicking arts do “hop” on both balls of the feet, they do this intentionally because they need the weight completely off their legs in order to kick quickly.
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when ur in ur fighting stance do u keep ur upper body facing ur opponent or in the direction that ur feet are facing?
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