Chi Sao is the feeling of energy, more importantly your opponent energy. The verbatim English interpretation of Chi Sao from its Chinese start is "energy hand." Some moreover impute to Chi Sao as "giving hand." All would be correct. First where and then the because of the Energy Hand. The where would be from its origins in Kung Fu or Wushu that are of march the broad conditions for Chinese Arts as there are more systems that implement the drills in a form or another.
The principal indicate of the Chi Sao is to feel your opponents appetite so you can expect where he is going with his vigilant and his strikes or grabs if they are a grappler. It is indeed a pleasing thing to watch when a normal practitioner or lecturer of Chinese arts demonstrates their chronicle of Chi Sao drills and forms. Most are choreographed nonetheless those with talent only do it to whatever the opponent gives them as far as appetite in the form of strikes, or more fairly attempted strikes.
Now to the many important of the appetite palm teachers, Bruce Lee. He began his martial arts practice from Yip Man his lecturer in a type called Wing Chun Kung Fu. This type employed many of the meeting drills, and Lee outlayed many hours perfecting his skills with a partner.
So the subject today, is the technique efficient in modern fighting? The answer is a concrete maybe. The teachers who outlay immeasurable amounts of time working the Chi Sao drills and teaching them to their students would have to affirm that it is really efficient in digest an enemy strikes nothing and void, and in many instances this could be fact.
Now is to downside. You contingency be in nearby regular meeting to feel your antagonists energy, that can literally be a suffering in butt, or head. What Bruce Lee found out was that in general the Chi Sao contingency be paltry in range from what was used as regular meeting in actual fights against a lerned martial artist who used their hands and not only their feet would be problematic.
What ! we have found is that Chi Sao is roughly invalid in sparring. You can still use trapping, lopping (grabbing), and pinning of offending extremities, but the median person is so uncoordinated that appetite received is only as well slow, and you could more simply only set upon them 5 times than to feel what it was they were perplexing to do to you.
Lee used the technique more in the initial juncture of JKD than in its expansion to a more efficient war art, and edited the drills to more true line and cranky appetite defenses and opposite strikes. This initial juncture was is to many segment mutated Wing Chun. The second juncture was more a pristine charming war that no longer used the typical Wing Chun Chi Sao drills, but war mutated drills is to swift charming attackers, and the third juncture was primarily a Ju Jitsu grapplers sky in that he deserted all formerly methods.
In all the years and investigate we have never witnessed any Jeet Kune Do (The network founded by Lee) practitioner ever use Chi Sao correct in sparring. The reason we regard this might be so, and you are acquire to form your own assumption from your own observations, is that the strikes of JKD are so swift and non reliant upon what the aim does, that it is roughly a not vital tool. Now am we adage it is not being used? No, only not in the form we are used to watching. As great fighters we are always feeling the other persons appetite or vigilant either we are heartwarming them or not. Our counters to this appetite only dont take on the form of all the Chi Sao drills of the past. Here is a concept fact as far as an enemy energy. If a human overwhelmed me (or any great grappler or Chi Sao practitioner) in a entirely dim room it would not take ample bid to describe them to suffering city.
Would normal Chi Sao similar to Lee taught at his initial college be of functional use against a lerned war warrior in arts such as Krav Maga? No not ample as the mad strikes entangled would not enable is to round appetite motions of old. Possibl! y that i s because Lee mutated his Chi Sao over the years until it was deserted for grappling. So spending as well ample time on only a aspect of an art as the means to an finish of all attacks is foolish.
It is flattering ample a concept consent with war art teachers that the drills whilst utilitarian and a great attraction drill, do not give well in to modern combat, so you will see couple of schools relying on the normal drills for primary defense.
I have sparred against many traditonal gung fu teachers that try and lift off the moves to their detriment. If your opponent is familure with the drills and what you are doing, it is similar to being disarmed, and will not offer you the appetite you need anymore. we have moreover seen others do the same scenerio with the exact same results. In sumation, am we downing the drills? No, they have thier place, but know thier linitations, and dont drop plant to considering that your Chi pierce is the finish all fighting tehnique.
About the Author:
Carter Hargrave is the President of the World Jeet Kune Do Federation may be reached at http://www.carterhargrave.org or http://www.worldjkd.com
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