I often publish work by WingChunLife. You get all the credit, unless you wish to stay anonymous. Yee Gee Kim Yuen Ma is a training stance used to strengthen the legs. In practical training it, or any version of it, should not be used. There are basically three separate stances that are used for chi sau and in a fight. The stances as used in a practical capacity are as follows:. Twist your hips 45 degrees to the left, and face your shoulders fully 90 degrees to your left so you started off looking forward, and now you are looking to your left - your right foot is your back foot.
You can now push forward with your back foot to move forwards, or lift up your back foot momentarily and allow your weight to move you backwards. You can turn your back foot out a little more to get some extra sideways stability.
This stance is used to quickly close a gap between you and an opponent. In Biu Ma, the practitioner can move forward quickly to gain physical contact with the opponent using either a Mun Sau or by lifting the front leg to perform a kick. Biu Ma can also be used to apply pressure by pushing from the back leg during a Po Pie double palm or to absorb pressure coming from directly in front by using a Lan Sau Bar arm.
In order to step forward, the practitioner must first turn his left foot out by about 20 degrees, and then move his right foot forward, keeping it facing forward. In order to step backwards, just complete these movements in reverse. This stance should be moved once physical contact has been made with the opponent. It is the stance used during Pun Sau the rolling part of Chi Sau. Higher level practitioners with good Mok Lik are able to take control of fights before they have ever truly begun.
It is also a cultivation of instinct—that gut feeling that tells you that something is going to go wrong, and what to do before that something actually does go wrong. When a good Wing Chun practitioner has their sights on an opponent, properly developed Mok Lik allows them to discern very small movements that simply could not be seen in a rage. Proper Wing Chun stance is being like an immovable tree. Highly refined Wing Chun structure can feel like you are quite literally trying to push a very sturdy tree.
When everything is connected, when all of the above elements of good Kim Yeung Ma work together in unison, it is very hard to topple someone practicing their Wing Chun structure. Doi Gok Ma is what you will see being used when it comes to our pivots or our So Gurks, which starts in Doi Gok Ma, but ends in our other stance. Often times, a So Gurk will end with a Bil Mah.
At that point in a So Gurk, there is really no reason to not advance forward. Does the Kim Yeung Ma have any sort of practical application beyong a training stance? Often times, it is seen most in our pivots. The Kim Yeung Ma is not a stance you want to be in longer than needed. Transitions are always a weaker period in just about anything, and the Kim Yeung Ma is no exception to that. Cultivating the Kim Yeung Ma is cultivating the weakest link. Your Wing Chun is only as good as your weakest link.
With that being said, however, a weak link like Kim Yeung Ma is not something to be forsaken, given how central it is. The Kim Yeung Ma is where all elements of good form can be harnessed together, at the same time. There is no better stance to practice for honing your elements of good form than in the Kim Yeung Ma. The other thing about the Kim Yeung Ma, is that using it in application is an inevitability, similar to using a Bong Sao. You will be using Kim Yeung Ma in application, so there is absolutely no reason to cast it aside for other aspects of Wing Chun.
The short answer: Siu Nim Tao. The long answer: Of the three empty hand forms, your Siu Nim Tao will be the seed in which all of your Wing Chun grows, your Kim Yeung Ma being one of the chief aspects among them. In addition to the Siu Nim Tao, we at the Dragon Institute will also practice our Kim Yeung Ma by placing a wooden block about fist size between our knees, and, in the case of the more advanced students, also practice against a pillar or the support beam of a Mook Jong dummy, with the goal being to really strengthen our Ting Yiu by keeping our backs as straight as possible against what we are using to assist in our training.
The Kim Yeung Ma is one of those things in life that are easy to get the hang of, but actually mastering is another matter. Every student will be different in regards to progression, as is the case with pretty much any aspect of any martial art. Perhaps the most difficult thing to master of the Kim Yeung Ma is remembering that it exists.
In this sense, the basic stance teaches you to use the energy of an attack to form a favourable position to defend. Overall, the basic stance in wing chun is not a fighting or self defence stance. It is a training stance to help develop connection from the ground to your arms.
For example, imagine that you were standing on the ground and linking with your arms but the middle of your body was weak, as if made of jelly, any force that hits your arm will not be dissipated down to the ground, but absorbed into that jelly. Hence, the whole idea is to create a structure of connectivity between the elbows, shoulders, hips, knees and feet, thus drawing power or structure from the ground without compromising efficiency of movement.
The Second and most relevant to self defence, or fighting with Wing Chun, is characterised by having the leg forward. The stance shares the structural characteristics of the basic Ma, but has more mobility and practicality for self defence.
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On Closing Overall, the basic stance in wing chun is not a fighting or self defence stance.
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