chi sao in SNAKE CRANE WING CHUN

chi sao in wing chun means sticky hands. It is already often described and illustrated. However, SNAKE CRANE WING CHUN chi sao has a different purpose than the chi sao training in many other wing chun lineages.

1.  chi sao in SNAKE CRANE WING CHUN is only made to improve the perception and sensation. We don’t close our eyes because we use chi sao also to improve our visual perception.

2.  The chi sao training in SNAKE CRANE WING CHUN is not a competition. Because we want to improve our sensation a competition would be counterproductive.

3.  In our wing chun style, the chi sao has NOTHING to do with a realistic fight. In some styles, the chi sao training runs with pressure to make it as realistic as possible. For us, the chi sao training is not designed to do it like a realistic fight. I myself practiced many years chi sao from the Yip Man lineage, but can’t think of one single situation in a street fight in which a chi sao sequence did appear. Nevertheless, although our chi sao is not like a fight it is made to improve our fighting skills enormously.

4.  We don’t have any chi sao sections in SNAKE CRANE WING CHUN. I have trained really a lot of different chi sao sections in my wing chun career, but honestly I never found out why. Chi sao sections have nothing to do with the classical wing chun - they were introduced in some linages not long ago. 

Here an example how the chi sao can look at SNAKE CRANE WING CHUN