Years ago, when I was teaching at Chi Sau Club, I had a man come in for a trial lesson. He’d spent over 20 years training in Karate and held a 2nd Dan black belt. You could tell he was confident—respectful, but you could feel the quiet...
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Tension isn’t just an inconvenience — it’s a blockade. When you’re holding tension in a joint, you're effectively placing a physical and neurological bottleneck in the system. It’s like trying to run power through a kinked hose. The signals get di...
Anyone who has studied Wing Chun in the Ip Man lineage has probably heard of elbow force. There are many interpretations of elbow force depending on the practitioners understanding of what is meant by the term. My understanding of elbow force come...
A big part of CST Wing Chun is being able to relax your shoulders under pressure. We don't want to be using the limited contractile forces of our biceps, triceps, deltoids, trapezius and forearms to produce force as their power pales in comparison...
To the rationally oriented, the realm of using the mind to move presents a rather challenging concept. Challenging because it seems impossible.
'Moving with your mind' implies that you just think of moving a limb and voila - the...
In CST Wing Chun, we want to make sure all of our movements contain our total body weight in order to maximize our power output. Obviously, hitting an opponent with 80kgs of weight is going to be a lot more destructive than hitting them with 5kgs ...
Ligaments contain an immense potential for power generation.
In the world of functional anatomy, ligaments seem to be one of those body parts that do not gain much attention. When you hear the word ligament it is usually in relation to s...
Chu Shong Tin Wing Chun is quite unique when compared to other internal martial arts. One of the key differences is the way in which a CST practitioner's body distributes weight via their spine. Weight is transferred efficiently through the spine,...
To an outsider, it may seem that Chu Shong Tin Wing Chun has less to do with self defense and fighting, and more to do with bodily processes. That is because the process of learning how to generate force without using muscles has more to do with...
When exploring the Siu Nim Tao form we should look at the qualities of the stance, movements and thought processes involved to better understand what we are aiming to achieve by practicing the form. In this article we will be exploring the essenti...
In this article I want to explore the relationship between Nim Tao & Proprioception. Since I started Wing Chun in '04 and learned about Chu Shong Tin, I have looked deeply into a variety of fields to explore what it was that gave Grandmaster Chu h...
In Wing Chun, relaxation is the state of being we are trying to achieve each time we train. Chu Shong Tin practitioners are constantly searching for deeper levels of relaxation, which often makes relaxation seem like an oasis in t...