Clever Techniques And Simple Principles Applied On The Wooden Dummy.
Wing Chun is a wonderfully fluid martial art with practices and techniques that flow nicely from form to form, with locks, throws and strikes. However, they all take practice, and if you go to a martial arts school, you’ll find that school time is best devoted to lessons with hands on help and sparring, so you can see how those techniques match up when faced against a real person. Wooden dummy techniques are a good way to practice them when you’re not in class.
So there’s a premium spent on practicing the forms outside of the school, so that you’re ready for the next lesson just like going to class in high school takes homework, so does martial arts practice. Now, you can get a lot of benefit from a wooden dummy the bits that extend out make a good brace point for practicing grapples and throws, and give you practice in slamming your forearms into something hard so that you won’t flinch when you do your blocks.
One of the best techniques I’ve found is to follow along with a DVD. DVD players are cheap, you can pause the action and repeat the motion...