Dan Chi Sau aka Single Hand Chi Sau | Wing Chun

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When the students start to learn chi sao, they start, instead of with two arms, we start with one arm. This is what we call single-arm chi sao, or dan chi sao. And it's a very simple standard format that we start with and this is just a progression. Once the student learns single-arm chi sao, they can then progress to double-arm chi sao.
So, we start in a very traditional way. We start using the frontal stance and one partner's going to be in the outside position using fok sau. The other partner is going to be in the inside position using tan sao. Now, what I wanna do, okay, before he learns to defend, is I want to attack him with a palm strike right here. This is in fact the palm strike that we have from the Siu Nim Tau form, okay? It's very important when you do the palm strike in single-arm chi sao not to do the palm strike down. Some instructors teach their students to do the palm strike here. This is a little bit problematic. First of all, if I gave him a full-power palm strike right there to the stomach with my wrist like this, I'll probably end up hurting myself. In the form, this palm strike is actually done horizontally, it's not done low. So this is suited for the palm, or of course, in application, for the face.
So, when you practice the palm strike, you wanna make sure that it goes towards your partner's chest. If I have forward pressure and he gives me a low palm strike, I would just go forward and hit him. There's no need for me to chase this arm down here like that. So, when he gives me a palm strike, I'm going to use jam sao to defend, okay? And jam sao is just a slight sinking of the elbow and I occupy the center line here. What you don't wanna do is you don't wanna do anything like jat sao or pull back like this. And sometimes instructors teach our students this. This can be a little dangerous, because you're basically drawing your partner to come in and give you a hit. So when he gives me a palm strike, I'm going to use the jam sao to occupy this line. Now from here, I close my fist, keep my elbow low, and I'm gonna give him a punch, which is going to turn his arm up into bong sao, based on the theory press the head, and then the tail raises here like this.
So the standard dan chi exercise looks like this: palm strike, which is reacted to by jam sao, and then punch, he does bong sao like this. Now, if you notice, my elbow is low, my fist is in front of his chest, it's not in front of his face. And the reason is because if I give him a palm strike and he does jam, and he punches me towards my face, I'm going to go forward and wedge him this way here. There's no reason for me to do a bong sao against a face punch because this will just become a ramp for him to hit me in the head. So, I will only do bong sao when he gives me a low elbow punch this way here. When he gives me a high punch towards the face, he's gonna get this one here. There's no need to do bong sao against a high punch. And this is the basic dan chi exercise.

[@D4rkBlack22]

This is super useful thanks 😊

[@ROBERTBPIZMAT2C4U]

Guy explains an alternative for the single arm chi.

[@ROBERTBPIZMAT2C4U]

Chi Sau...

[@evaristonsilva4609]

Ótimo 👍

[@junjonz313]

That's right you shoot that Palm straight out some people don't play this way they make it a routine

[@evaristonsilva4609]

Muito bom

[@Rosanjo9]

Awesome, Thanks Guys :D

[@adamrise1541]

I like Bong Sao against a high punch.

[@ichimarugin1995]

So you like to get punched in the face i Imagine, cause bong against high punch doesn't work as he explained.

[@adamrise1541]

@@ichimarugin1995 if u say so. Works for me, much more effective than pak sau for instance, and thats all that matters.

[@tofu8085]

I wonder if darude - sandstorm has its own fighting move.

[@paolopiccirillo6665]

no

[@madokaonline]

How do you wing chun muhammad ali if he's dancing around and jabbing your face? I'm seriously wondering how to apply wing chun if you where to face an opponent like him.

[@hywatha2011]

martial art, or any form of fighting, are about power, speed and skill (and tactics); if you try to say theories or skills are useless, then you most likely came to the wrong video.

[@madokaonline]

hywatha2011 So you say that wing chung has nothing to teach when it comes to how to deal with a boxer of his level? I mean I could even figure it out quick. Just attack his leggs and you would win. But lets say you're not allowed to do so. no attacks below waist and no kicks or knees. I see lots of wing chung tutorials and they're mostly only hand technique. So again. Face muhammad ali and use only hand techniques, how do you beat him? I want to know not because I want to say that wing chun is shit. I just really want to know how you would deal with it because it is interesting for me to know

[@hywatha2011]

I thought you're mocking the vid., my bad.

[@justafloridamanfromthe75thRR]

+Ravn If he dances, he is not attacking. When he attacks, he is not dancing, You are responding to the attack, not to rythm. "Attack the attacker" when he attacks, you can counter attack and he cant dance away, or if he does dance out of the close range caus you were not fast enough to finish him, that means he is literally running away, to attack again. Boxers are very hard to defeat, it's not impossible, with wing tsun you have a good chanc, but you have to be really skillful, to beat a trained boxer.

[@madokaonline]

Shifu Master He is though dancing while attacking, that's what he does a lot of at his prime. He doesn't stand still to attack, when he was at his prime.

[@experiment54]

This is just a money making exercise.

[@tomerbaz6954]

Care to explain?

[@ichimarugin1995]

So explain us why if you are so sure ;)

[@cowboysandindians8508]

your jam sao doesnt suggest any central energy. the way you suggest it in this video does not work, as your are missing too many fundimentals. bad habits all the way. yeeeeehaaaaaaaa

[@justafloridamanfromthe75thRR]

+cowboys and indians What bad habist? Could you describe it a little more?

[@ichimarugin1995]

U are the one who is missing fundamentals ;)