Wing Chun for Beginners - Using a Wooden Dummy

This course gives you a foundational understanding of Ip Man’s traditional Wing Chun techniques and the Wing Chun culture. It introduces you to the basics, important points to bear in mind when practicing with a Wooden Dummy. This training helps you develop the essential skills and control necessary to Wing Chun and improve your self-defence skills. You will learn various footwork techniques, including why it is important to position and move your body correctly in combat. This course explores a variety of Wooden Dummy techniques and how to apply them in an actual fight. You will also learn how to practice with an empty Wooden Dummy. Study the empty-hands forms such as Siu Nim Tao, Chum Kiu, and Biu Jee. Discover how practising alone or with a mirror gives you more insight into what the forms look like. You will see how a Wooden Dummy is made up of a five-arm system. It comprises two legs on one side while on the other, there are three arms and one leg for the traditional ancient dummy. There are also two pairs of knives and a spring arm as well as the Jat Da device.

Next, this course illustrates how to use a Wooden Dummy to practice Jat Da and Chi Sao techniques, which are almost like a simultaneous block-and-attack move. In Jat Da, you will learn how you can jump lower or higher depending on where the opponent’s fist is coming from. Chi Sau, on the other hand, is a method that challenges one’s ability to develop proficient and effective actions that will be practical when employed against an attacker. Furthermore, the material demonstrates the 13 best Wing Chun techniques to use for self defence. They employ the Wooden Dummy and Wing Chun Eight Kicks, which are aimed to the floating ribs and below. Learn about the Biu Jee Sao or ‘thrusting fingers’, which is one of the many Wing Chun moves that doubles as a block and a strike. Analyze how it can be used to deflect any attack around shoulder height and above or to strike the eyes and throat.

Lastly, this course teaches you how to use soft energy to overcome hard energy when practicing with the Wooden Dummy. Learn how the Kwan Sau move is going to let you trap your opponent so that you can hit them effectively. The material then discusses the second part of the Wooden Dummy system using the right hand and opposite direction. Learn how, when doing the Bong Sau, the Wu Sau (defending hand) is just as important. In Wing Chun, there is the Chi Sau exercise (which means ‘sticking to the arm’). You will examine the importance of training on both sides because, when you are attacking or defending with your right arm, you should also be able to do it with your left. This gives you a major advantage. In close fighting or Wing Chun, you do not focus on the upper body but on the middle section. Learn why you have to be more flexible in real-life fighting, look at the situation and decide where to attack. This self-defence course on using the Wooden Dummy gives you insights into the teachings of the traditional Wing Chun Ip Man’s eldest son Yip Chun. By taking this course, you will understand how to apply Wing Chun’s different techniques and improve your martial arts techniques!