Wing Chun's Power of Relaxation - Part 1 of 3 (HD)

Chief Instructor Tony Psaila discusses Relaxation and Joint Rotation in Part 1 of the Power of Relaxation.
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[@musichaven7598]

This is what I love about Wing Chun, being relax will not make you lose breath or air a lot and will not drain the stamina so fast..

[@MistaSmith]

From all the videos I've watched this is the first video of a guy who doesn't call himself Sifu and also the first video where I would call the instructor Sifu. Kudos!

[@rayharold8415]

I'm a boxing coach level II preparing 3 boxers for the nationals this info applies to boxing on a scale from 1-10; 10.

[@raymondlai5]

Dear International Wing Chun Academy =), I would like to say, thank you, to you, for taking the time and effort to both upload and share this video with the youtube family =). I would like to wish you a happy, healthy, generous and lovely day, mate! =). Kind Regards Ray (From Sydney, Australia) =)

[@MarcoArsenault]

I tried it with my friend and we were impressed by the pushing strength you can produce by relaxing and just rotating your joint...dunno if we were doing it right but it seemed to work.

[@jogobonito1234]

this is great; many wing chun teachers talk about relaxation, but few of them are able to teach the scientific explanation behind the need for relaxing. Also, insights on spine, joints, and muscular structure are invaluable..... Tony, would you post longer, more detailed videos? thanks :)

[@ptong226]

that was great demonstration and instruction. I like this sifu very much.

[@actingactor6915]

Bad Teachers either dont want you to know, or themselves dont know. This guy is great. He knows stuff that most wing chun guys cant get close too. This is real wing chun

[@amar99ify]

Yes this is wing chun.. nicely explained.. easy to understand.. Thank you

[@anthonymcgrath]

thats probably what you spend a lifetime trying to practise :) Truth is you'll probably never fully relax.. fighting by its nature is stressful.. but if you can condition yourself to relax as much as possible it really does help especially with (as he points out) joint rotation and distributing more of your body's weight into the assailant. Its one concept in a dozen that wing chun tries to use as much as possible.. contact reflex, speed, relaxtion, advancing, shifting, stepping etc.. :)

[@97GoldDust]

The power of relaxation is amazing. Perfect example at 6:00 where he hit him with out affecting himself. And able to do things like geting out of locks.

[@danielx40]

Thank you for the explanation.

[@geddadiaX]

this demo was done, and explained very well

[@jkdsteve]

This is excellent.

[@JoanieKennedy]

again I say I would love to learn from these guys, going to take in what I can from these videos,but my God I would hate to pissem off.

[@harlequin75]

After this instructional video, Anthony checked into the ER

[@jhuncabas1695]

hahahahaha! very true!!!! hahahaha!

[@JosephDalton1111]

Great demo.

[@ptong226]

this is a good sifu. his accent sound like Australian? thanks for the great explanation and demonstration.

[@marvelprince9893]

Excellent!

[@mark1983peace]

This is very well explained. I'm not sure however, if I could relax completely when being attacked. Is it possible?

[@Faithfuljuggernauts144pk]

Thank you I was doing krav maga study but I lk!e this so much better

[@sizzla123]

awesome vid

[@fabiobranno]

very good!

[@s.muhammadkamran]

Wing Chun is a front on and close bodyline fighting style hence relaxation works. In this type of fighting techniques you are using the force of opponents attack against them. Although the relaxation technique works in wing chun because it doesn't allow opponents to apply force against a relaxed muscle and gives you enough time and space that you can counter attack or reflect it back to your opponent. As Bruce Lee says, be like water my friend.. but Anthony is exaggerating and faking it. :D

[@wingchunjourney1097]

Impressive. New subscriber here! :-)

[@PaulConway1973]

Ouch ...poor guy I felt that.... I love the demo .... Chu Shong Tin knowledge here.... :-)

[@mad1jay]

Wow u make this look easy. Easy it aint. 5☆

[@werderden]

how many years do have to practise to get to that?

[@sixpetrov]

great lesson, but how to transfer the weight if you're skinny?

[@ReceivingLightweb]

+Siniša Petrović even if you are skinny, let's say you are 80 pounds, at 80 pounds as a full adult that is extremely skeleton skinny. However, over time you learn to punch , pull and push, with the stance backing you up, and eventually everything you are doing has your weight behind it and the earth, so everything is going to be 80pound of your weight behind everything you do, and if you have good footwork and stance, you can actually double this by pushing off the earth, using the ground force and getting up up to 160 pounds or more behind anything you do, at a masters level.

[@wesleygriffin9071]

i sure hope his spine is ok, that was nasty and a very good way to mess someone up permanently

[@sourav777]

@intirayami william lai sheffield? :O

[@OmarDelawar]

Poor guy he gets hurt but is still taking it pretty well lol

[@_ralph018]

Deym 12 yrs ago

[@BilalOz2012]

Lol Anthony gets thrown a few meters away every time

[@jonathanjimenez8033]

ying and yang?

[@TheLukeylala]

when he introduced tony, tony looked scared.....:D

[@mandaraxa]

Relax kid, I wont hurt you. Damn its hurt man :D

[@mohamedorayith4626]

Don't understand I relax my body and my muscles but when I punch it feels the same Help

[@nairdo9473]

Dark pro Mo you need to know and do the first form of ving tsun, calles. Siu nim tao to understand relax and be alert and transferencia energy etc

[@13MittaMitta13]

wing chun is about speed -_-''

[@JoanieKennedy]

poor guy ouchies

[@michaeljohnson2417]

poor tony~

[@Stayls]

You don't know the form do you?