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Since Many of our Wing Chun friends asking me

to present what is the body mechanics of the 1850s Wing Chun. Today I would like to share with you what is the truth of this body mechanics of 1850s Wing Chun. First thing, 1850s Wing Chun's body mechanics is not structure.

Like you have the immobile elbow,

clamping the knee, you have to keep the structure, you have this loading and unloading and your joint tied up or you're tucking tailbones.

It never is that. So it is never structure, never all those things, or straightening spine, or those stuff. It never is that. It also is not those like Taiji, look like the so-called internal art, solve those things. It is never that.

It also is not what in the past few years many people copying me saying that snake engine waving their hand, arm this way. Okay, so you can see today many people is have that this 3 combinations, They call it the Wing Chun body mechanics. None of this is the 1850s body mechanics, which I meant.

If you read my book carefully,

you know none of this. Now, so how is the body mechanics of 1850s Wing Chun?

Well, in the Shaolin sword strike, the Shaolin sword strike classic, it say that from the toe to

the top of the head. It is talking and rotating for guarding and attacking purpose.

Er Mei, which is the

mother of 1850s Wing Chun, saying that there is every joint is moving.

The small joints is like the pupa, the worm moving, and the big joint is like the snake moving. So Wing Chun 1850s is actually a combination of these 2 things. The Shaolin sword strike, the airy joint twerking and spinning and then the Er Mei which is have the airy joint like the snake moving or the worm moving. So how is it? Well, it's very simple.

Today I want to reveal to you. Once for all,

you know what I am talking about.

Now if you stand in the parallel stand, with the toes point a little bit outward there. So make sure that you are comfortable with your body. Loosen up your body. Hold your hand like this. Tightly you push down the entire body.

So all this muscle is activated. Okay. And then you spin this way. With the entire body's muscle is activating.

You spin this way. You spin this way.

You can see that the body, the entire body is exerting force from the bottom, the feet to the top, where I turn my head and the entire body, the muscles all connect into 1. That is what it is.

It is very different like I stand

in a structure and then I turn my upper body while I grabbing the ground or I have a immobile elbow, elbow power, localization stuff. It is very different than that Because this is the entire body. Every piece of the muscle is twisting from the bottom of the feet to the top, your spine and everything, everything, it moves accordingly. So not this. And also not somebody standing in this kind of stance and then say, waving their hands

and say, this is the snake engine.

No that's not what it is because again it is not this. And everybody can try it. Okay You're going down there, your feet, your core, your arm exerting force and you move everything in the same time, in dynamic. And of course this is not Tai Chi where you have to keep your core and all sorts of stuff. Okay, so with this 1.

Another thing is you can see from like this. This. When I press up, press down and brace up, press down and brace up, you see my body? Press down and brace up and support up. Down and brace up and or support up, my entire body is moving, screwing, outward, expanding.

And then when I come back, It is never standing to stand. Or like this. Or like this. No. It is spin out like this.

Ok this is how to present how to sense how to experience the 1850s Wing Chun body mechanics. So when you get the ready in the fighting stance, you charge in, your entire body is trained with that. Every piece of the muscle, everything, the twerk, every, the entire body is spinning and twerking and the muscles are all trained, open and expanding and contracting, all that. Okay, you stand in the structure like that, with an angle, holding, angle, holding, loading, unloading, you cannot do it. You stand there, you're waving your hand like this, you're not going to be able to have that strength.

Like Tai Chi, you don't have that expanding and compressing, the twerking and twisting the entire body. So you cannot use that in the martial arts, in the fighting. Because in fighting you need that. That's why, Since 1870s, the Wing Chun cannot get close because the body never condition this way. Every muscle externally training the bone, sinews and muscle, it is be able to twist and twerk, expanding and compressing.

That's what it must have. It is never a linear, a triangle shape. Any part of your body, every part of your body, need to be able to adaptively move together. Anywhere you put a triangle shape or you hold on their joint, it breaks there. And it's not show business like internal, you know, standing and then Zhan Zhuang and then those are just words which have no meaning.

It's not Tai Chi. Well, those are like dance. So, This is what I like to share with you today. Everybody get up from your sofa. Try it.

Turn the entire body. Twist your entire body. Now then you know the strength of Wing Chun. Stand there. Pushing while you supporting with your entire body, with your body.

Expanding.

Compressing back. You see the entire body. That's what you need to train in your Xiulingtao form.

I make these 2 examples so that everybody can try it out between the small movement and the bigger movement. So you know what it is. It cannot be just my understanding, my theory, my concept. It has to be exact. And it has to be, everybody needs to be able to experience it.

So do that And if you have questions, ask me here. Or if you got it, you can share in detail what you really get.