Short Bridge Systems
Short form is known as "Short Bridge" in some systems of traditional Wu Shu, it teaches a student some very unique techniques that are for the most part on the inside of an opponents attacks. It can also be used in angular attacks, attacks from behind, learning special walking techniques to disorganize your opponents mind, then step behind him with a very special stepping pattern. Short bridge is very interesting, I have found that it is a type of distance that most are very frightened of at the beginning, but once with this training you will have an upper hand with an opponent that does not know these same methods. With this particular set of forms you learn to step, block, punch, and kick at the very same time after a few lessons, all from a foot away from your opponent. At the same time you are always pressuring your opponent by pressing him backwards, always pressing forward, or through angular attacking technique. There are many systems that could fit into this category, for instance Wing Chun, Southern Eagle and Mantis, or White Eye Brow, in fact many systems from southern China are from these type of systems, not all but far more than not. Short range can open your eyes to a whole new area of motion, and as they say, it does not hurt to learn.
Man attacks, palm block with left palm, right punch to short ribs on angle because you stepped to side, he punches real hard to your head, you sit down in horse stance, grab his wrist with right hand, left hammer fist to bladder or groin.
Grab his arm with both hands, same time cross stepping to your back with left leg, as you duck under his arms keeping them tight on the wrist all the while you spin out of open x stance into cat, then slid right foot back behind your attacker, all the while keeping his wrist tight. As you starts to call from this technique. You can let him drop, you can knee him before he drops, you can kick him as he drops on ground, or you can walk away.
If you have let him up a few times, and he has always lied to you and said he was going to stop fighting, the third time is the one you have to put him out. You can't do that all day long with someone that has something wrong with them. Or they could be agitated from drinking all day, you see with some of these people, they will go and get a knife if you do not show them that would also be useless.
Roll over hand technique
Sifu Klentz is teaching Sifu Dee roll over hand technique
Sifu Dee punches in with right punch, slapped down by Sifu Klentz, Sifu Dee punches with left, again slapped down with palm black, Sifu Klentz then rolls over Sifu Dee's left fist with his left hand, coming around with his fist right into many spots on face area, the nerve in chin, side of jaw, temple area, under ear, there are many targets with this roll over hand technique from the short technique category.
Roll over hand technique
Sifu Dee doing roll over hand on Sifu Klentz a different method
As you can see above when Sifu Klentz does Roll over hand on Sifu Dee, it is much different then when Sifu Dee does it. The first move Sifu Klentz moves above is stepping back while slapping his attackers palm down. Now when you look at Sifu Dee doing the same technique, he steps forward while Sifu Klentz steps in with left punch, Sifu Dee uses both palms to slap Sifu Klentz's punch down, as Sifu Dee's last arm comes around in perfect roll over hand fashion. Plus as you can also see, Sifu Klentz above in the first set of pictures is protecting himself from two punches. And when you look at the pictures in the next version with Sifu Dee blocking. Sifu Dee times out the punch perfectly, knowing he has to block one punch with two blocks as fast as the punches comes in, and when Sifu Klentz's punch was supposed to reach it's target which is Sifu Dees face, is when Sifu Dee knows he has to have a perfect inverted back fist on Sifu Klentz's cheek bone, temple area, and so on, never think that one technique has to go here or there, always improvise, always make sure to hit the closest and most deadly target. Why punch someone violently, when all you have to do is touch them lightly in the right place to knock them out.
Roll Under Hand technique
Sifu Klentz, Sifu Dee
Sifu Klentz teaching Sifu Dee how to do a roll under hand technique. Basically roll over hand is for low punch, roll under hand is for high punch, and that is the basic rule, you can again improvise to do what ever it is you want to do. High punch comes toward Sifu Klentz, Sifu Klentz bends his knees to get under the punch, same time using his left palm to slap the punch diagonally upwards side ways at same time. Sifu Klentz then rolls under with his other hand this time grabbing Sifu Dee's punch, sliding to the side in bow stance while smashing Sifu Dee into the Groin area with his hammer fist.
Short Tech on Wood pole
Sifu Fiedler in the 1990s, training short techniques on wood poles, first picture working on bear palm, second picture using side palms as weapons that cut into the jugular vein.
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