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Double chi sao is not the performance of single sticky-hands with both hands (although that would be a worthwhile exercise). Rather, the simple rolling exercise is as follows. Person A has either a bong sao or a fook sao with either his left or right hand, while person B has a punch or taun sao with the opposite hand. The rule is that at any time you have either: a) a bong sao and a fook sao, or b) a punch or a taun sao, then the bong sao always goes with the punch and the taun sao and fook sao go together. If person A is in the bong sao/fook sao position, then he rotates to taun sao/punch and person B does the corresponding move. To change hands, one performs haun sao and punches from the inner hand (the hand inside the opponent’s guard), which is met with bong sao, and the opponent does the same. Then simply drop down into taun sao/fook sao on the opposite side and start rotating again.

The most important aspect of either of these exercises is to develop a good defense of the center-line (median axis of the body) by getting the elbow in the center-line. A sticky-hands performance with the elbow out of the center-line, particularly one in which the hands sway from side to side like palm trees in a storm is extremely poor because this sort of rotation is wide open to a strike from either the taun sao (the inner hand) or the fook sao (the other hand). To develop a good center-line defense, or a so-called good elbow, some hard training is necessary. First, one must stretch the chest muscles and shoulder muscles (especially the lateral deltoids). Second, sticky-hands must be performed using the cane-circle hand. The idea here is to force the upper arms (not the forearms as some students believe) together with a round of cane, or even a piece of cloth. Sticky-hands is then performed. As the elbow improves, a cane circle with a smaller diameter can be used. This advice is an illustration of the profound simplicity of Wing Chun: its best skills and training methods make one think, “Of course, why didn’t I think of that!” It is easy then to see why so much of Wing Chun kung-fu has been veiled in secrecy for so long.