Whipping, fak sau, it’s not only a direct hit/attacking action, but it can also be used for wrestling when you get close enough to your opponent.

Some people may want to say, if you meet a boxer, Ving Tsun, or even all traditional kung fu systems, will be useless, why? Because a boxer floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. Well, yeah, true, a boxer is very good at what they are meant to be. However, I tell you what, a punch, no matter Ving Tsun, tai chi, karate, boxing, etc, whatever punch, it’s like shooting a bullet, right? The contacting area of a punch is much like a point, a dot. But a whipping hand, fak sau, it’s telling you to use the whole side part of the entire forearm, like a blade, when the fist, the punch is missing, the blade is coming, it’s hard to dodge, which is illegal action in boxing or any competition. In addition, if you get too close, you can cooperate with your tripping leg to unbalance your opponent, to do wrestling.

Then, from whipping hand back to barrier hand, don’t waste any movement, whether opening a barrier hand or closing an opening posture to barrier hand, they both can be powerful attacks!

First of all, this combination teaches us to use elbows directly;  elbow strikes are actually hidden here, way much earlier than many people think. Second, if whipping doesn’t work, or miss or whatever happens, an elbow strike is coming, vice versa. And they both can be used for wrestling techniques. I personally would like to combine it with other kung fu systems and extend it for extra workouts. Make the Ving Tsun system more deadly. Of course, Ving Tsun has its own elbows and wrestling techniques in a later stage, because we mainly focus on hitting, and direct hits take the least risk and cost the minimum.

Second, when back to the barrier hand, there is also the intention to train the hook punch, don’t think Ving Tsun doesn’t have a hook, I dare to say, all kung fu systems have, it’s just about when to appear in the system and how to use it in real fights applications, it’s not copyrighted movement by boxing competition, and not all of them meant to be used the same way as a boxer.

Third, there is more to extend about barrier hand in the second form of Ving Tsun, which is called Seeking Bridge, Chum Kiu.

Here we simply understand its features and fundamental functions, the static barrier hand, and the dynamic one.