James Sinclair - Wall Bag DVD (PAL Format)

This is one Awesome DVD! Learn how to condition your hands and generate brutal power with your Wing Chun strikes!

This is the second in the series of instructional videos produced by UK's leading Wing Chun Kung Fu School, the United Kingdom Wing Chun Kung Fu Association. It features Master Teacher James Sinclair and other talented UKWCKFA instructors

Bare-knuckle fighting is brutal and rough! 'Iron Palm', which is revered in Kung-Fu films, becomes a necessity, even more so when combined with the legendary Wing Chun one-inch punch made famous by Bruce Lee. Here, in this authoritative video, the principles and applications are discussed alongside general hand and leg techniques.

Using a unique graphic system design on the UK Wing Chun wall bags, all students from beginner to advanced will gain a greater insight into their training. This material will benefit the viewer regardless of what system they are in.

This DVD also offers a great opportunity to those students unable to attend classes, allowing them to study the dynamic and effective Wing Chun Kung Fu system at home.

47 Chapters Including:

* Focus mitt
* Heavy bag training
* Scenario applications for Wing Chun practitioners
* Centreline punches
* Side punches
* Turning punches
* Short distance power
* Palm strikes
* Chops
* Elbows
* Cross body punches
* Angular fist
* Lifting kicks
* Detailed hand massage
* Dit Jow application and more...

EWC Review:

This is an excellent DVD, one of my favorites. It has a lot of good functional strength exercises for applying strikes, lots of excellent applications for the strikes and a very comprehensive list of strikes and conditioning exercises for the hands, forearms and elbows. Dit Da Jow massage techniques are even included. This DVD will help you improve your Wing Chun, no matter what your lineage is.

Language:		English
Length:		117 Min
Format:		PAL
DVD Type:		DVD-R
DVD Region:		Region 0: Region Free

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Reviewer: George Hernandez
Date: August 1, 2011

Technical Specifications:

Title: Wing Chun Kung Fu – Wall Bag Training
Presenters: Master James Sinclair
Region:  all
Number of disc:  1
Length: Disc
Language:  English
Production Quality: 3.5 /5
Sound Quality: 5/5
Video Quality: 4/5
Material covered: 5/5
Instructional qualities: 5/5

What it's about:

This DVD covers the essentials of Wing Chun Kung – Fu wall bag training, its associated warm up exercises and applications.

Comments:

Wing Chun as in many of the Chinese martial arts has training equipment unique in developing one's power and skill in combative applications. Although most martial artists are aware of the Mook Jong or wooden dummy, used in training, perhaps many are unfamiliar with the three section wall bag in developing power. The first part of this DVD provides a great deal of time on the proper exercises or warm ups to prevent injury and damage to the internal organs, because of the acupuncture points associated with the fingers. So caution is given in preparing the hands and knowing how to strike the bag to minimize soft tissue damage. There are Chinese herbal preparations which are taken orally and herbs applied externally to the hands to promote the healing process. If you're able to obtain the correct herbal preparation you actually could make the muscular of the hands far more lethal.

The DVD also provides excellent advice regarding the possible injury one could develop by striking someone in the mouth. Toward the end of this production a fellow Wing Chun practitioner, gives his account of being involved in a minor encounter; because he hit the person in the mouth and cut his hand on the opponent's teeth; he got a serious infection that traveled up his arm, which resulted in several major surgical operations. The infection was so serious he almost lost his hand and he could have very well have lost his life! So think about the possible dangers of blood born infections should you find yourself in a fight.

If you're looking for the kind of training DVD that will develop power in your technique and applications, such as using the sides of the hands, elbows, et cetera; it will provide you with some of what you'll need. For the drill hungry instructor it has lots of partner drills with applications. And if you're looking for a wall bag that has printed on its face the lateral and angular lines showing you where to hit…you might find this a useful instructional feature to orient your striking motion.

Again this DVD is packed with content and is well worth the investment. Wall bag training would benefit those who wish to learn how to strike with power and it would be an excellent compliment to Wooden Dummy practice.

Content Overview:

1. Introduction
   
2. Warm up
   
3. Forearm Stretches
   
4. Simple Warm Up Routine
   
5. Partner Warm Up
   
6. Strength Development
   
7. Center Line Punch
   
8. 45 degree Fist
   
9. Sifu Mark Phillips-Demo
   
10. Chops-Demo
    
11. Chang Sau Hand
    
12. Side Chop Application
    
13. Downward Chop Application
    
14. Chop Combinations
    
15. Side Punch
    
16. Control and Focus
    
17. Side Punch Extra
    
18. Scenario Applications
    
19. Strike Applications
    
20. Downward Palm
    
21. Chain Punches
    
22. Huen Sau
    
23. Slaps to Focus Mitts
    
24. Gwa Choy
    
25. Braking Techniques
    
26. Short distance Power
    
27. Jammod/Body Shift
    
28. Cross Body Punch
    
29. Palm Strikes
    
30. Summary
    
31. Hand Combinations
    
32. Half fist
    
33. Single Knuckle
    
34. Butting Elbow
    
35. Hacking Elbow
    
36. Heavy Bag
    
37. Lift Kicks
    
38. General Kicking
    
39. Massage Introduction
    
40. Basic Hand Massage
    
41. Dit Da Jow
    
42. Warnings and Precautions