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WINGTCHUNDO Stance And Structure
The stance The classic neutral position or in chinese called ‘Yee Jin Kim Yan Mah’ in the WTD system gives incredible stability to the student.
When this stance is understood and worked accordingly it is possible to absorb pressure redirecting it into the ground. The aim is to find the optimum position in your body balance so you will be ready to absorb the force even in advanced alternate positions. Performing these actions over the years will give you the acute ability to perform its intended purpose of (for example) absorbing, producing spring type energy from practically any advanced stance or position.
This can only be achieved when you can literally feel and reroute the pressing force through your body that is applied to you.
Not an easy task you might say.
When practising the first form called the siu nim tao first stand with your feet together and obtain a sense of balance and feel your own body weight slowly developing a sinking feeling going into the ground whil’st bending your knees simultaneously pulling your arms back, fists clenched softly and holding them one inch from the sides of your chest. The knee bending is the most important part of the development and you must not use any force whatsoever to bring the knees closer together nor should you be tense in the back or legs and especially your feet.
From this position you go into the Yee Jin Kim Yan Mah stance. Whilst the knees are bent a good indication is that when looking down you can see them lined up with the front of your toes. From here then turn on your heels and you point your toes outwards. Then place your bodyweight over the balls of your feet and finally turn your heels outward. From here, your feet are pointing inwards and form an imaginary triangle, the point of where you’re aiming you energy direction towards your opponents centre.
Once in this position, you angle and turn your pelvis up slightly and relax your bodyweight into the stance, holding it all together with a slight muscular tension in the glutes.
An extra note to consider is that the foot and ankle turning whilst going into the YJKYM stance can be slightly forced to create a stretching effect in your ankle muscle groups. This development of the ankle stretching helps you to relax,get stronger and also effectively transmit energy into the ground.
Keep your back straight, chin up and the chest must not be forced out but rather you must feel as if you have your chest half full of air, a bit like a half full balloon. With time you will understand the benefits of this positioning and how it benefits your spine. Sink down as far as you feel comfortable. Once in position, the weight of the body can be held over the middle of the feet. When you are over the middle of the feet, you will find a connection to the ground which is felt between the heel and the whole of your feet, with particular balance concentrated over the arches of the feet. I cannot stress enough that although you will feel pain and trembling you must stick with it and try surrender yourself to the pain.
When training and working with an opponent we can experiment to see that when we are pressed our body structure and stance can absorb the pressing force while we remain balanced and rooted to the ground. Rooting or grounding is the most important development in WingTchunDo and without proper grounding you will never have effective power or effective execution in your techniques from your body.
Obviously we need to maintain a relaxed structure or else analysis of this procedure is basically impossible. There is buoyancy in this stance that exists in the knees. If it is done correctly, the stance should feel very comfortable and can be maintained for long periods of time, effortlessly.
I repeat if you that if you feel alot of pain and trembling in your legs just stay with it. This is normal. Believe me this is how and why you will develop great power by sticking to developing the stance.
If great weight or pressure is placed on the hips, particularly in the lombar region of the spine, the knees can absorb this force until the feeling of pressing out from the floor takes place.
So consider that spinal flexibility through relaxation and concentrating your energy through your spine and imagining an allignment with all the spine, cervical, and the head to be concentrating energy upwards, keeping yourself basically in line and harmony with gravity, whilst the hips and knees slowly concentrates on a falling pressure effect towards the ground. This is not an easy task and derives from a chinese saying that says ‘Push your head towards the sky and the feet on the earth’
There are several ways, applications and methods for standing in this stance. I tend to prefer doing this for long periods of time when practicing the siu nim tao, or remaining in a neutral position when training poon sao. The important thing for me is to remain relaxed and surrender to the pain through breathing and concentration.
The stance will help you maintain your balance and posture.
If Training with a partner ie: Chi Sao, don’t allow yourself to overextend or give your balance away. Even when training with a partner it is important for both of you to focus on building structure. Without good structure you have no effectiveness in WingTchunDo
never give up
Sifu Fernandez
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