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5. PULLING AND PUSHING FORCES

Wing Chun’s sticky-hand fighting makes extensive use of pulling and pushing actions to clear away defenses and to render defenses ineffective. The simplest way in which this can be done is by lifting the opponent’s arms up and attacking under the bridge. Another technique involves parrying the opponent’s taun sao from your bong sao, and slipping an uppercut (lifting punch) under the bridge and through the guard to the head. A subtle use of pushing force is the tracing-the-shape palm, found in the Bil Jee form of some forms of Wing Chun, which I discussed previously in the Bil Jee chapter in volume one. This technique is used to control the upper arms of the opponent, clinging to them and forcing them onto the opponent’s own body so that his arms are momentarily trapped and you are free to strike his face.

Pushing force is a neglected aspect of contemporary martial-arts training, only being adequately developed by the Japanese in sumo wrestling and surprisingly enough by the Americans in American football, and by the Australians in “Aussie Rules” football. The push, however, is an excellent balance-destroying technique. In Wing Chun training, students train both shoulders and hips in pushing techniques that illustrate a broader principle, namely that students should aim to mold their entire bodies into weapons—not merely their hands and legs.