Training was awesome last night and my Dad is definitely stepping up the intensity. This year's lesson is based on flexibility, control, concentration and focused on pushing out the kinetic qi energy. This is the hardest part. It's such a refined practice and training that few can harvest this energy. It takes hours of 1:1 training and practice.
We spent some time sparing and talking Wing Chun theory while browsing some old movies from the grandmaster himself, Ip Man and the training brothers, Wong Shun Leung and Bruce Lee of course...Bruce Lee was aggressive, a true martial artist and you can see the difference...he was solid...focused....though he didn't learn the true Wing Chun, his legacy originated from the art...
Spring
The notion of your arm acting like a spring and being flexible, powerful and automatic is the hardest part to train for. Essentially, when you're a baby, you're taught to grasp, hold, throw things from a favorite red hand ball to a nerf ball....everything is based on utilizing the mind and muscle to generate an action. The training last night was based on automatic, no thought type of reaction for the simple reason that when you're in a fight, you don't have time to think when you're making a move, because by that time, your a@@ is beat. I kept thinking about a homing missile...one the target is locked..the target moves forward..nothing slows it down, it is focused and clearly directed. So we practiced blindfold so the training is based on instinct, feeling rather than using the brain to anticipate every move. It was hard but I can't wait until my arms are conditioned enough to act on their own...
The difference between Movie Martial Arts and the Real Deal.
To be continued...