Video Clip Series: Helping One Another and Having Fun in Sparring

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Review of Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course in Toronto, Canada, May 2007

Tantui, the Essence of Northern Shaolin -- Part 15

HELPING ONE ANOTHER AND HAVING FUN IN SPARRING

Helping one another and having fun are hallmarks in our Shaolin Wahnam training

Injuries and tensed feelings are not uncommon during sparring in many martial art schools today. Some instructors go to the extent of telling their students that if they cannot take some punishment, they cannot learn a martial art!

Happily, this is not the case in our school. Indeed, helping one another and having fun are the norms in our sparring sessions.

These happy scenarios are not our innovations. Being free from injury in any training, including sparring, was also the norm in great kungfu schools in the past. Not to be hurt at all as well as being relaxed even in demanding situations were, and should be, the main aims of any martial art cultivation.

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The Techniques of Hook and Hang
Grandmaster Wong and Sifu Michael go over the movements slowly to enable the class to observe the attacking and the counter techniques. These movements are found in Tantui Sequence 11, known as “Hook-Hang”.
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Counter against the Hanging Attack
Sifu Michael moves in to attack. Grandmaster Wong responds by hooking Sifu Michael’s neck to fell him. Sifu Michael counters by hanging Grandmaster Wong’s leg to fell him instead. But Grandmaster Wong changes his step and kicks at a vital point at Sifu Michael’s thigh with his left toes. Sifu Michael moves away to avoid the kick.
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Helping One Another and Having Fun
This video clip captures course participants practicing the hook and the hang techniques. They go over the movements slowly not only because the movements are new but also they are complicated. As it is obvious from the video, helping one another as well as having fun are hallmarks of our Shaolin Wahnam training.
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Pressing Attack with Continuous Punches
Grandmaster Wong initiates with a right thrust punch. As soon as the opponent responds, and almost irrespective of how he responds, Grandmaster Wong follows up immediately with a horse-riding level punch. If you are skillful in executing these two continuous attacks, not many opponents can counter them, as is evident in the impromptu sparring shown in this video clip.
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Gripping and Felling an Opponent
The continuous punches are formidable, but if you are prepared and well trained you can counter them effectively. One effective counter is to grip the opponent’s arm and pull him to fall down.
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Stretch Fist against Double Hand Grips
How would you counter if your opponent grips your arm and pull you to fall forward? Follow his pulling momentum, turn around and strike his head with a “Stretch Fist”. This is Tantui Sequence 12.
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Reversing the Grip by Turning Body
Grandmaster Wong and Sifu Michael demonstrate the “Stretch Fist” from another angle to enable course participants to see how by turning his body Grandmaster Wong not only releases Sifu Michael’s grip but reverses the grip instead. The “stretch fist” may be struck on the opponent’s head or body.
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Moving to Opponent’s Back to Strike
Sifu Michael initiates with double attacks. Grandmaster Wong grips Sifu Michael’s arm. Sifu Michael turns around to reverse the grip and counters with a “stretch fist”. Grandmaster moves to Sifu Michael’s back and strike with a level punch. Sifu Michael swiftly moves forward and turns around.
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