I AM NOT BEING STILL… I AM JUST NOT MOVING.

It is being the best of ourselves, that makes Wing Chun, or any Art, work.

I AM NOT BEING STILL. I AM JUST NOT MOVING.

This is not semantics, this is something we need to get our head around, to understand the language, understand the thinking, and then understand the functionality before we can get our body to comply.

Do not try to be still, this is not a natural state for human beings we are built to move. 

I have seen many students doing the S.L.T. and trying to be still.

What we should be doing, and trying to think about, is not making unnecessary movement.

Moving anything except our arms when playing the S.L.T. Form is unnecessary movement.

 If this results in stillness, all is well and good, but being still is not the goal.

If we are called on to use our training, what good will being still be?

What we think Wing Chun is at the beginning of our training, {and being what most outsiders think Wing Chun is}, ends up being just 10% Wing Chun and 90% being a human being.

Everything we do in Wing Chun training is essentially just theatre, the Forms, Chi Sau the whole kit and caboodle.

Smoke and mirrors, dancing.

The rest, the 90% simply helps the advanced student reache a place in their life where they are in control of themselves enough to almost seem in control of the world around them.

We are not Alchemists of course, we have not discovered the philosophers stone, but when you can effortlessly do what others put great effort into and fail, their only answer is that we must know Magic.

It is being the best of ourselves, that makes Wing Chun, or any Art, work.

This is in no way pooh-poohng the training, on the contrary, if we are a “Perfect {generic} Man” but have no “IDEA” how to get out of trouble…

…we do not get out of trouble.

So it would be prudent to do our best that to compliment our Wing Chun training we work to become and understand what it means to be, a better human being.

Here is a video presentation from a group of guys that have a Youtube Channel called Functional Patterns, as you all know, my bias is and has always been towards functionality, so it should come as no surprise to you that I like a lot of what these guys do.

This video presentation is about “Breathwork”, the presenter is a bit hyper but the info is, at the very least, Food for Thought. 

As always, if this post brings up questions, which I hope it does, then bring them in, and I will try my best to answer them.

To visitors, if this post spikes your curiosity, you know, you ask yourself W.T.F? 

 If you have any questions, hit me up in the comments, I will try to explain W.T.F?, Or at least point you in a direction that may help.

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

PAULO COELHO