Wing Chun vs Muay Thai | How to Catch Kicks

High Low Gaan Sao is a great Wing Chun technique for catching kicks keep watching and you will see why high low gaan sao within the wing chun system is quite an effective technique it is versitle you can use the technique against hands against kicks to get stick in lots of dynamic ways the key thing about the high low gaan sao technique is the way that low hand retracts high it teaches you effectively how to recover the low hand to a high position and that's what gives it the versatility you see the technique in the wing chun wooden dummy form you see it in the knife form and you see it in lots of different parts of wing chun training but what we are going to do is how you use the technique against kicks its an easier principle to get across so if Mike throws a straight kick towards me it becomes a versatile idea where I am actually redirecting and taking the kick slightly off line it is not so abrasive as the kick comes I can cover and as you can see I can bring the other hand up to trap we call this technique lau sao rising hand so the high low gaan sao technique works quite nicely because I slip and as I slip I cover I rise and then it gives me all sorts of possibilities to take him down so I could chop him in the throat I could lift my knee up and throw him down I could even sweep his other foot out I could even as he comes through kick the supporting leg knee and then throw him around it's a great wing chun technique but we're going to look at how to use it more effectively so the main point of this video is to show how you can take some of these traditional wing chun techniques to make them more applicable to if you
like modern martial arts training now the thng abut the high low gaan sao is that it is an open hand technique its open its changing and its very tight but how does that work if you are going to wear boxing gloves its a good question I get it often from our students let's have a look at a couple of ideas of that so if I put the boxing gloves on obviously it is going to change the shape of my hand it doesn't necessarily change the shape if my forearm because the forearm still has the same angles to have the same direction so now what happens is I'm actually
getting a difference in terms of position of the hand shapes
but we're going to look at how we gonna use this technique with kicks now one of the things I wanted to try to get across is that when the straight and you apply high low gaan sao technique is absolutely fine to do it the way we
did earlier but the problem is that is non abrasive what happens if he
throws a roundhouse kick if he throws a roundhouse kick and you take the classical interpretation of doing this high low gaan sao into his shin what you are going to find is as the kick comes in you are going to meet bone on shin and I am not a betting person but good thai boxers can kick through baseball bats so I wouldn't necessarily want to put my forearm in the way of a shin coming at high-speed so the ideas of one of the things we do at the London Wing Chun Academy we teach students to dissipate the power of the kick with the arm and then change it to a high low gaan sao they will dissipate whether the guy is setting up with punches is coming in will be covering up but if
it is disapating here what you are actually doing taking the kick in the boxing glove and then wrapping the leg and in that sense you are taking the high low gaan wing chun technique in application to keep control so good thing about
the boxing glove is that if he goes on the other side as I am wrapping from this position here I am wrapping and a small little detail on this is that lift your elbow slightly as the kick comes towards your head we are specifically talking about head kicks not body kicks not body kicks when he is kicking for your head if you lift your elbow slightly you capture his shin you keep his shin so it's very difficult for him to retreat to get his leg out from this position it is quite easy to complete the high low gaan sao technique you see the top hand and the rising trapping hand this part is trappoing his leg and that is the detail now where you have a lot of techniques to roll take him down to finish him off that's the easy part is always getting hold of the head kick and the kick comes in hard and fast it is very difficult to get hold of and that is why generally we'll cover-up if he is throwing punches we'll cover-up then cover-up and then look for the opportunity that
when we got there to wrap and create a wedge and capture the leg from there you can kick you can knee and most importantly if you are going to take the guy down you wrap around and bow taking him down very easily this is one of the best and most effective techniques we have found to deal with high-powered head kicks by using this high low gaan and wrapping and controlling so the key points to remember is that if you are going to use high low gaan sao technique you've got to try to dissipate the energy of the kick
you can't take on the kick straight on especially with high low gaan sao technique because it will damage your arms so hopefully you've enjoyed it if you've got any questions please feel free to leave comments my name is Mark Phillips I'm from the London Wing Chun Academy please like share subscribe thank you

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