Wooden Dummy for Dummies!

Welcome to Structureland! 

(Where anything is possible if you have the correct angles! Only your footwork sets the limit!)

Today it was Wooden Dummy seminar at WT Center with Dai Sifu. So nice to get the chance of a thorough run-trough of the Muk Yan Chong, the Wing Tsun Dummy Form. Sifu explained the basics of this intriguing form. For instance pointing out that the Wooden Dummy is a piece of wood, it is NOT a Chi-Sau training tool. Do NOT stick to the arms.

Dai Sifu presenting the Wooden Dummy for dummies. As he eloquently put it: 

"MYC teaches and corrects positions and coordination of hands and footwork. Although some toughening and conditioning of the arms is an outcome of training on the Dummy, that is not the purpose.

Do NOT strike the Dummy full force! 

Each movement on the Dummy is separate and must be completed and felt as separate movements. 

Do NOT speed through the form."

There was also time for some serious applications:

As with the other forms MYC is a collection of ideas, techniques and suggestions - some connected to the Siu-Nim-Tao and Chum-Kiu, others to the Biu Jee.