Forms are organising patterns that have little if any genuine purpose apart from dexterity and proprioception.
This post was originally for Rick, but as I said back then…
It never hurts to go over stuff we think we know.
All Forms are a way to organise our body along certain lines to fit certain agendas.
Forms are organising patterns that have little if any genuine purpose apart from dexterity and proprioception.
Added to this we are training our body to be in a specific and exact shape.
This is very important and frequently overlooked or at the very least misunderstood.
Creating an exact shape is a transferable skill, once we can accurately make one exact shape we can accurately make any exact shape.
Chum Kiu introduces us to contact and as such introduces us to force/power and how to deal with it, use it.
Force/power comes from Gravity, sinking or dropping. It comes from Momentum, moving in a straight line and it comes from Torque, rotation.
Instead of just taking all this as a given try to identify these IDEAS in the various FORMS.
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George S. Patton
Wing Chun Sydney, Australia 