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Lessons from Eddie Chong

Ray van Raamsdonk, November 4th, 2007

  1. Leung Sheung was noted for his expertise at the Bil Jee.
  2. The knees are in to stop the front kick. When you turn a kick is also
    stopped. Practice with a brick between your legs.
  3. Practice with a tennis ball between your elbows.
  4. The Bil Jee is the enemy of the Chain punch.
  5. Practice the wrist hit on the sandbag. Practice the slanted kick on
    the dummy post.

  1. Never have a high Bong sau otherwise a quick slapping leverage technique
    can be applied against the elbow.
  2. Always Pak sau the elbow. Even against a very strong guy it works.
  3. Do the Huen sau slow and with some tension to build up the forearm
    muscle. Don’t move the elbow too much.
  4. Do the Chi sau but learn to charge in with it.
  5. Don’t lean back in the stance.
  6. Eddie does not do the low Wong Shun Leung Gan sau like Leung Ting’s
    version in section 6 of the first form. Wang Kiu’s version is the same
    as Eddie’s version in this part.
  7. Practicing the double palm hit, Jut sau, double Huen sau, double low
    palm hit continuously on the wooden dummy is good for building up power.
  8. The knife can beat the stick and the stick can beat the knife.
  9. In chi sau, as soon as my attack started, I was countered with multiple
    hits. They were good at catching the timing early.
  10. Eddie prefers the pressing flat palm over the pressing vertical palm.
    (Gum sau vs. Chum sau)
  11. Never take the hand back. Never suck back your force. Always keep
    a forward force.
  12. Against Eddie’s TaeKwonDo kicks (brown belt level) Kenneth Chung charged
    in and double palmed him into the wall every time no matter which type
    of kick he threw. Eddie said he had very fast kicks.
  13. When grabbing the opponent’s hand, never use the thumb or else you
    can’t punch quickly enough.
  14. Against the Judo throw, put the palm into the hip and you can’t be
    thrown.
  15. Eddie’s group had a lot of experience against Hapkido, Karate and
    Aikido.
  16. Eddie was good at the heavy arm of Wing Chun.
  17. Don’t use the long hand in Wing Chun. Just use it for demonstrations.
    Wing Chun also has shortcuts.
  18. If you can do the Huen sau a few thousand times, then you are pretty
    good.
  19. Against my left hand grabbing his right arm, Eddie applied the Bil
    Jee elbow. Against a straight punch, he applied the Tok sau to send
    me backwards. Against the Chum and punch he applied the Bil sau to trap
    both hands. Against the shoulder attack he applied the horizontal Chum
    Kiu elbow. Against my attempt to grab his fingers, he let me do it and
    then punched me with the other hand. Against a cross wrist grab. Eddie
    applied a simultaneous Tan sau and punch. Against my Tai Chi wrist and
    elbow control maneuver, Eddie just turned the elbow in and I was countered.
    Everything had very simple solutions. Against my front kick, Eddie circled
    his foot and kicked my support leg.
  20. Eddie had nice controlled counters to my various attack attempts.
    The club was very friendly and treated other Wing Chun people like they
    are part of the same family. In 1990 I visited again and they were very
    friendly again. All of Kenneth Chung’s line treated me in a respectful
    friendly manner. To me this reflects well on the teachers.

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  1. March 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm by Humble Student

    This is elementary…purely pre-school level.Search for higher level teacher!

  2. February 2nd, 2012 at 1:28 am by Jack

    What you based your opinion on?

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