There maybe many interpretations of how to shift in Wing Chun, and in anyone’s mind you can try to justify why you do it one way compared to another.  But, when you really understand the mechanics of shifting, maintaining a 50/50 weight distribution is the only one that doesn’t go against the laws of physics or for that matter common sense.

When it comes to using speed to over come a triangle along with timing, it really is just a waste of time.  Triangle domination will always take over the motion no matter how fast you think you can try to whip an attack out at your opponent.  In this video you see Sifu handle my attacks with just slight angle changes in his triangle.  Seriously, what was I thinking.

Here we are at the end of the seminar, someone had requested to see both of us chi sao against one another.  Yeah, just like always Sifu was beyond dominating, and at midway through I really felt that I had a por jong attack that I might have been able to sneak through, but you literally see Sifu, do some kind of slow motion block and step to the side to easily block it.  Really one of the more impressive things he’s done in this chi sao demo.

More demonstration of me not being able to takeover timing when closing the gap on Sifu and trying to rely to heavily on speed.  Hard to believe this was almost 4 years ago, but you learn from experience and training.  At the end of this, Sifu showed his speed in his attack accompanied by timing, and my lack of triangle at the time.  Bottom line, I was toast.

When you get to a higher level of blocking your not even attempting to block your opponent.   When you do that, you’ll be a step behind, since your reacting to him.  In real understanding of how to block, you are simply feeling for breaks in your own triangle and simply reforming it every single time you feel that change.  That way, your focused entirely on changes upon you.  Remember if you train to feel changes in others you’ll spend a lifetime and not develop the real goal, and that’s feeling changes instantly from you.