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In volume one, an introduction to Wing Chun’s chi sao, or sticky-hands, was given. This volume attempts to explain how to fight using the sticky-hands method. Sticky-hands is in bad need of a critical deconstruction or demystification, and this book attempts to do just that. Likewise, the Wing Chun method of sticky-leg, or chi gerk, fighting has been described in some instances as a way of sticking with one’s legs to an opponent’s kick. This is practically impossible to do for the average martial artist. Rather, a realistic theory of sticky-leg fighting is outlined, in which low kicks and sweeps are used in combination with grappling hand moves to destroy an opponent’s equilibrium or to attack the joints. As far as this author is aware, this is the first time this type of chi-gerk fighting has been outlined in any detail in book form.

Attention is then given to the chin-na of Wing Chun. Chin-na means to seize (chin) and control (na). Wing Chun’s chin-na, then, is a system of techniques for grasping, clawing, and tearing the flesh, skin, and muscles; spraining or breaking joints; attacking vital points of the human anatomy; and choking, strangling, and killing by breaking the neck in life-or-death situations. A discussion and illustration of clawing techniques, locking and throwing techniques, grappling and disabling throws, and vital strikes to the weak points of human anatomy are given. This is a vast area to cover, and no attempt is made to illustrate all such techniques. Rather, the emphasis here is upon basic techniques that you will be able to depend upon in a realistic self-defense situation, and the general principles of combat.