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In this chapter, I shall explain how to fight using the sticky-hand techniques. I cannot in this guidebook show you every technique from the theory of sticky-hands, as that would take an entire book in itself. I can, however, discuss and illustrate the most basic and useful techniques, which I believe will give the reader an understanding of the fundamental principles behind chi sao, and this I feel is a more important task.

WHAT IS CHI SAO?

In fighting with the hands, an attack may be either evaded or else it is blocked or deflected. If it is blocked or deflected, then the attacker and the opponent’s arm (typically, the forearms, or what is called the bridge) come into contact. Chi sao is a martial-art theory concerned with fighting at this instant. Instead of withdrawing and then counterattacking, as is usually done in Western boxing, in sticky-hands one clings or sticks to the opponent’s forearms and attempts to penetrate his guard and thus secure a strike. There are many individual techniques designed for penetrating an opponent’s guard once the forearms come into contact. In general, however, these moves may be classified into fundamental categories such as: trapping the arms; pushing the hands up or down, left or right; pulling the guard hand(s) down or clearing an entrance by the jut sao; forcing or grinding through the guard; twisting around or flicking a bil jee strike around the guard; and attacking under or over the bridge (e.g., using a lap sao technique—a bong sao with a rotating back fist).