Could This Be the REAL Way to Use Wing Chun? | Ft. Erik Paulson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2023
- Today I will be doing another mind blowing episode with Coach Erik Paulson! We will be talking about Wing Chun Chi Sao application in grappling!
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Kevin you should send this video to Adam Chan in Vancouver, he may find it interesting and cool, (and if he doesn't will keep his mouth shut, he's very kind and respectful of all arts). He beat my ass when I trained at the then school of Amanda Nunes's coach "Conan" Silveira (Carlson Gracie/Soares BJJ ). Anyway, Paulson's stuff looks awesome!
I watched him fight many many years ago the guy he fought pulled his hair the entire fight
Great video!
Fantabulous 💯🥋
im exhausted and feel totally defeated xD
My god, I was in awe the entire time watching this. Seeing Coach Paulson flow so effortlessly from technique to technique and incorporating elements of Wing Chun on the ground was, quite honestly, beautiful. Thank you Kevin for grappling with Coach Paulson and allowing him to demonstrate all those techniques.
My pleasure! Now my body just needs some adjustment after this video. 😂
Agreed. This was an amazing grappling video. I have never seen anything quite like this, and just as instructive. I am very impressed!
@@KevinLeeVlogErik was Stelio in Bloodsport 3.
That was beautiful movement🤌 so effordless.
Loved it. Reminds me of the days when it would be me and him in the morning. Flowing and fart jokes
Erik Paulson is awesome. Saw him using wing chun trapping techniques on the ground back in the 90's (I saw him using them on the top, from the mount). He's a true martial artist in every sense of the word.
On an possibly unrelated sidenote: I trained with him for a few days at Grappling Unlimited in Hawaii back in 1998. Some ten years later, I ran into him at Minnesota Martial Arts Academy, and he remembered who I was, my fighting style, and who I trained under. Perhaps this encyclopedic memory is also why he is such at talented martial artist.
He’s always had amazing memory!! Thank you for sharing the story!
Maybe you are more memorable than you think you are :)
He's fighting someone smaller a true trainer fights the same weight class or bigger
I think you might have made that up. Also, if Kevin can only have guests who are smaller than him, it will restrict who he can invite on to his show.@@GuyRobertson-fx3gi
Honestly that makes sense there are some people who pick things up real quick because they got really good at learning. I bet Erik is one of those people. I try to do some of these habits but it can get tiring.
This guy is exactly how one of my long-time teachers is. An encyclopedia of techniques. Once you learn to love to lose, you become an animal with a teacher like this. Oss 👊
Well said!
as someone who has trained wing chun for the last 15 years and bjj now for the last 2 years, i do strongly believe the two arts can work very very nice together. this was a FANTASTIC video
I met another jeet kune do/wing chun practioner in bjj. The guy is so smooth. Also I love using sticky hands for plummeling. Remember Bruce Lee used Jiu Jitsu as well. With the Kimura, Leg triangle and armbar showcased in Enter the Dragon.
I've been using it lately in the hand fight game.
I use wing Chun in my BJJ all the time. All those years of doing Chi Sau paying off!
@@lucanthunder thats it, chi sau and chark jong are two big parts of wing chun that can be usefull. one of the things that definitely transferred across is the idea of each limb being able to operate independently, operating upper and lower halves on their own and having a centered stable base. haha not to mention asoto gari is so very similar to a move i used to train (just that i used to throw a elbow at the time of taking their supporting leg out)
@@KenithCopeland yep. Also the idea of fighting for the center line, trying to control the center line, gives me a north star when I'm lost or overwhelmed, especially in scrambles
Fair play, Kevin keeps smiling even whilst he's being folded up like a piece of origami 😄
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nothing else to do
It's a smile that masks the horror.
I still can't understand just how little energy he seems to be using. No wasted movement. Really amazing
it's like an old grampa fighting his nephews
Watching Erik Paulson work is always a massively entertaining info dump. The way he applies traditional concepts to very modern combatives, all while somehow getting his unfortunate partners to laugh thru the pain, is pure genius.
TBH, I think it's more of rediscovering what the arts were originally intended for. The old practitioners used them for survival when violence was a very real part of life. They had collective experience with all kinds of other styles and situations. They wouldn't be like, "hmm, what happens if it goes to the ground? Never thought of that." Multiple generations of hobbyists later, only a shell remains.
He's a straight-up grappling genius!!! I see sambo, catch wrestling, judo, dumog, shoot wrestling, and bjj tied into one motion. Pretty effective combination, very creative in technical application, and execution.
He’s a bad mf
What's the difference between shoot wrestling and catch?
Shoot-style is a form of pro wrestling that emulate real combat, it also allows strikes. While Catch wrestling is real like freestyle or Greco-Roman wrestling, allows submission but not strikes.
One thing I realised about sticky hands is that western martial arts has it too.
It's called "the bind" in swordfighting when two swords clash and touch. Both fighters use this point of contact to feel where the opponent is and how hard or soft they are to then manoeuvre the swords around each other called "the wind" (like winding a clockwork spring). Would be wonderful if you tried your hand at HEMA and applied your knowledge there!
it´s called clinch in muay thai, kakie in karate,......
Major dad wrestling with his kid energy lol. Coach Paulson seems awesome.
He is amazing!!
I love how he barely had to say anything, yet the video is still packed full of information. This guy is next level.
Simply incredible. So much skilled integration, good god there are levels to the levels of levels he just leveled. 😮
Yep yep!!!
The amount of pain you go through for us is nice to watch.
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Thanks Kevin!
I do my best! 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 Best comment so far👌🏻
It's amazing that Paulson almost never even looked at you! He was just feeling his way.
He has amazing sensitivity!!!
At a certain speed your eyes can't keep up anyways...
Unrelated tip, if you want to give your wife, girlfriend, mistress, whoever a better massage, close your eyes while you do it. It's amazing how much physical intuition you have when you take your eyes out of the equation and just sense. This applies to any physical contact, not just grappling and massage.
I thought there was some really good stuff here. I would love to see more of Paulson, guy seems ultra talented and knowledgeable. Great teaching style too.
He is amazing!!
Amazing video. Paulson is obviously very skilled and not someone to mess with. Kudos to you Kevin for being his prince of pain. Every teacher has a favorite student. Looks you are have been the favorite of a number of great teachers. That's how the students become masters themselves over time.
I always thought Wing Chun practitioners should train in Shuai Jiao. Use Wing Chun to break through defense for a take down. A traditional Chinese martial artists would benefit if they start with a foundation in Shuai Jiao. It’s the oldest martial art. I think most arts were created under the assumption you’ll be fighting someone who knows the basics of grappling. Also Shuai Jiao emphasize athleticism and the spirit of competition, which benefits all practitioners of every background.
I agree!! I am gonna do a Shuai Jiao video soon!!
@@KevinLeeVlog Would add Aikido as well
I really like Shuai Jiao and the majority of it is applicable to no vest/gui situations. It is kinda like Judo but imho easier and has some important and extremely useful differences. Of the 36 basic throws/techniques I'd say something like 25-28 are directly applicable/useful in modern mma. That same sort of statement can't really be made about many other martial arts(meaning a high perfectage of the tech just works in MMA). Many of the throws end up in a perfect setup for an arm bar too.
Wrestling was also the main pastime of Okinawans at the time Okinawan karate was created. Traditional Okinawan karate was based on the assumption that everyone has some wrestling skill. Japanese karate wasn't originally made for fighting but just a sport, and is actually a newer art than boxing is. For anyone into Shuai Jiao who has the patience to find a good tai ji teacher (takes many tries to find one that can fight), i would recommend doing both. That's because I have seen tai ji players beat shuai jiao guys under shuai jiao rules, but meanwhile tai ji is a better life investment for the long haul as it's easier on your joints and health (ofc you will still have some injuries of some kind if you train any art for fighting, even tai ji).
The Original Wing Chun, did not include Grappling, because of a lack of time (and because of completely different Intentions). They wanted to train their Rebels, to be able to defeat the corrupted Rulers... within a 5 to 6 year period. Also, since this was an act of WAR... you didnt want to waste time and energy, locking or throwing the Enemies. It was lightning quick, lethal strikes, only.
Of course, its good to have all ranges and forms of combat, so that you can Choose which best suits the situations that are presented.
Erik is the master Yoda of eclectic grappling arts.
He's skilled in Judo, Jiujitsu, Sambo, Catch As Catch Can Submission Wrestling, American Folk Wrestling, French Wrestling, as well as Wing Tsun, Filipino Martial Arts, Jeet Kun Do and Silat.
I always said, Kung Fu and Wrestling blend so well together. No wonder those two ancient and vast martial arts stood so well to the test of time. They are like the grandparents of every martial arts. Even then, they were one at the begining of humanity when it was simply "fighting", before people spread out to the four corners of the world. I encourage training with sticky hands and pummeling as ONE drill. I'm very happy to see this. People need to know. Thanks Kevin for sharing those things that were nowhere to be seen on the internet before recently. The world of martial arts will be a better one the more we share instead of keeping things for ourselves forever. Even with a competitive mindset, it is a sane thing to do for our own sake too. So that our craft improves. This is gold content.
The oldest tyle of kung fu is actually wrestling, shuai jiao. Kung fu styles, especially the soft styles are based on shuai jiao, they just added striking to it to make it more effective.
@@adim00lah it was just "fighting", at the begining of human civilization. The separation into different cultures bacause of migration to the four corners of the world is what made striking getting differenciated from grappling, but in the begining, they were one thing. Each culture has its own take on what's the most efficient thing, but in the end, they all are important and best used when used all together. This is the true nature of what Mixed Martial Arts means. The world of martial arts is slowly but surely getting back all together after millenia of independant specialization. With that, in time, we'll get better at fighting than we've ever been in all of History.
That was pure Wing Chun and an absolute lesson in pain! All respect given to Erik Paulson, a true example of what we should aspire to as martial artists. *bow*
Erik is such a gem of a person. Heart of gold and super skilled.
lol Kevin just got ragdolled for 15 minutes. size def plays a factor let alone the vast experience that Erik has over you, true master living legend. great demonstration.
I had a lot of fun tho!!!! 😂
I hate it when people with long limbs and big bodies actually get knowledge lol.
😁 yeah so unfair
Back in maybe 1995 I was a Wing Chun student in Australia, who excitedly went along to a Dan Inosanto seminar. During that seminar I saw a skinny young blonde guy, virtually my age, who demonstrated grappling flow where he moved from lock to lock to lock, and dominant position to position so easily and fluidly, I was amazed. I actually thought it was impossible to even remember so many locks! A few years later I eventually left Wing Chun and moved into MMA, to learn the ground game as I knew I had a big hole in my game. I've never forgotten that day, as I credit Mr Paulson with truly opening my eyes to the ground work that was possible. He's still amazing - and most likely even more so now!
Wow, You can tell he's got so much knowledge and experience from so many different styles of martial art, and he's flowing it all into grappling. Just incredible
He’s simply one of the best instructors in the World without a doubt.
This guy is a master
True master and an amazing human being!
I can see how combining this with Priit Mihkelson's Defensive BJJ could evolve the system. A lot of the positions that are happening mirror the ones he focuses on.
I couldn’t peel away I learned so much from the speed you two were moving great camera angles as well!
Thanks to Sensei Seth for being my cameraman!
This is an instant classic! Worthy of someone's Reaction video! EP is a legend. Imagine having rolled that much, just having metabolised so many positions and responses..
I'm really glad you're posting more Kevin. Your videos have really helped my striking and grappling!
The most constant, efficient stream of information i have ever seen. I feel like i could come back to this video every couple of months and learn something more every time
Kevin, man, you got packed up over 15 minutes just to teach us one of best lesson. Thank you! Both of you! It was great lesson!
This is a much neglected aspect of grappling in most of the BJJ I've trained. Some of these techniques are used in traditional Gracie Combative self defense curriculum, but there is so much more to explore and integrate.
I watched a brand new BJJ white belt frustrate more experienced grapplers with his hand fighting and pummeling that he learned training Aikido. He didn't submit or dominate anyone, but he survived and moved quite well for a noob.
Prior to training BJJ I had some experience with hubud-lubud drills, and it comes in handy at times.
From all the youtube " martial artist" i have the most respect for Kevin Lee because hé is honest and humble. Kevin Lee go on with your channel and life. Greetings from the Netherlands 🥋 OSU 🥋
Thank you so much!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Very generous video by Coach Paulson -- no b.s., start to finish nonstop teaching. TY sir.
17 minutes of pure awesomeness. Thank you! Reminds me of one of the best instructors I ever had. These kind of guys are the best - you learn so much so fast ...
This guy is fantastic. Ex Wing Chun teacher here 4 years MMA still a beginner watching this is an inspiration!
Best.video.ever! many thanks!
Coach Paulson brings so much to this session, it is gold. So much learning potential, thank you!
Kevin, I am always impressed by your humble demeanor and attitude. Once things started to get sticky I knew you would end up being squashed 😂. You are an exceptional martial artist and content creator.
Now, that is some high-level groundwork! Awesome video Kevin 👍
I love how sensei Erik shows the concepts and applies it. Rolling with sensei Erik looks Painful enlightening and Fun😂 great video🔥
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'll be studying this video everyday for the next few months! Thank you SO much for posting.
Sensei Paulson, I felt it the first time I saw your instructionals, 20 years ago, you are a gem. I love the love and positivity you have in everything to do, Kevin was a good sport too, he gets it
Thanks to the both of you! I'd love to see more of this.
More to come!
Great video. I remember Erik Paulson from Bloodsport III, Steelio. I remember thinking, that guy knows a whole new world of fighting that the rest of us have never seen. I recognized him years later in MMA. Good to see he is still teaching
It's so cool to me watching this, in the wing chun i train which is european based, this is how we've done ground fighting ever since the start. I don't know if Erik has gone to the european side of things, but if he hasn't its amazing to me how great minds seem to think alike and come to the same effective conclusions based of pressure testing as my Grandmaster has. It's awesome to see this, i have barely seen any other people do this at all applying wing chun to grappling like this. And it really works very well and catches most grapples by surprise when you're good at it too.
As Master Hans Remmel says: "Chi sao is not practical, but chi sao can make you be practical"
Very well said!!!!
WOW ! Great fun watching you both. Thanks for sharing.
Fun to see Erik having fun and all those Catches most don't even know. Cheers
I think Paulson is one of the best on the planet. He’s well versed in so many arts and his proficiency is top notch. Love watching him work/play. Thanks for posting.
Big thank you to you and Sensei Erik for this VERY instructive video!
I got to train with Mr. Paulson back in '99. He was the guest partner at an Dan Inosanto weekend seminar that I attended in Minneapolis.
The incorporation of wing Chun concepts into the grappling and the floor fighting was eye opening. Thank you both.
Amazing content Kevin! So many levels of wing chun applications in this video that I can recognize beng used in ways I havent thought off. ❤
I love this so much. This is how I used to interpret sensitivity training in wing chun. This just makes me so very happy!
This man is a flow-artist!!!!
I 💯 agree with you!
Great training sesion! Great to see how you give respect to people that are whole life in martial arts.
What’s most amazing about Erik is the sheer amount of techniques he can show in a short amount of time dude is a serious encyclopedia of martial arts techniques
Coach Erik is the man! Amazing martial artist and human! Thanks for making this! Wish i had more access to him and you but im over here in the UK!
Loved.. absolutely loved every minute of this.❤❤❤
Paulson is a beast.
Classic Wing Chun has a whole branch dedicated to chin na (joint locking, and pressure point activation) where you learn how to apply specific pressure to specific vectors that force the opponent to move or have their joint hyper-extended and the more rarely used side is pushing in on specific soft tissue locations around the joint that will force the opponent to reflexively let go of your other appendage - this technique is not legal in competition BJJ so it is not as well known - for instance if someone has you in a darce or front headlock, knowing where to press with your thumb on the inside of the elbow joint makes it so you don't have to fight the strangle, you just get ready to pummel when the opponent reflexively loosens or jerks back in pain.
There is a whole sport / art dedicated to developing energetic awareness within touch called "Tou Shui" that looks very similar to what Paulson was doing with the student at the beginning, pummeling the hands around to find the place where the opponent is already heading, and using the vector to your advantage.
This was something I had to learn for myself. Now i can wrestle blindfolded lol. I was taught chisao and push hands for the purpose of learning eskrido from my eskrima teacher. and all of these energy sensitivity drills have definitely sharpened my ability to read chi through touch (pushing force sensitivity). I'm very philosophical and somehow I learned how to incorporate my eskrima lessons into my grappling training. It's like the instincts just came in. I'm a wrestling coach and I've been trying to teach this for the past year to my folkstyle wrestlers without a set curriculum or system to build them up to it. What sucks tho is when you feel like you're onto something, it's hard to put it into words. It's like, you learned it for yourself and now you gotta learn how to teach it by yourself
@Kevin
I don't think I have laughed so hard watching a TH-cam martial arts video. That was just fun to watch. Erik is just smooth as glass and makes BJJ look like overly stiff Japanese karate. His moves are truly fluid. That is experience so he is having fun not teaching or training in the traditional sense. Well that's how you learn, spare with someone better than you.
It reminded me of wrestling with my father as a teen, he was just too experienced. You learned something every time you got rolled. He would smile ,laugh then escape when I used something on him he did to me before. He didn't teach he did the technique on you and you had to figure out how to use it later. Very enjoyable video.
I used to mix Wing Chun and Aikido similarly. Glad to see grappling applications getting some play. Erik Paulson is so damn good. Thank you!
So calm. Amazing
That’s high level knowledge with a ton of experience there from Erik. Thank you Kevin Lee for your work in collecting all this knowledge. 💫
This was super fun to watch, nice work mate!
That was brilliant. Thank you 🙏🏽
The fluidity in the movements is absolutely insane. That’s why it’s called martial ARTS! Amazing
Thank you so much for this amazing video. It's very interesting and expresses excellent the fun part of practicing martial art together 😊❤🙏.
This excellent teacher is one of the few that has deciphered the inner core of the wing chun lineages and showing to the public the mma applications....provided you have the wing chun MMA training before you enter a ring..provided you are using the heritage in your own lab...investigating the completeness of the system...so martial arts universals are here explained deliberately cleared from someone what has used the tools!!Admiration to both of you for bringing it up to our awareness .Greetings from Greece/Hellas
thanks kevin this video and the one with with greg nelson are absolute gold and it shows it's basically all the same but you won't see it if focus strictly on shapes rather than principles that are ALWAYS present.
I think we are in a golden age of martial arts. Sharing and rediscovering so much
This is your best video.
Coach Paulson has more knowledge than I ever be able to acquire in a lifetime.
Coach Erik Paulson is my favorite TH-cam coach. I love this man. He’s a hero to me.
This was my a joy to watch. I think I'll be watching this one several times and studying
Paulson is so impressive with his transitions.. endless book of knowledge but he always brings it back to core principles. This guy is is a western version of a " master".
This was so fun to watch. The knowledge inside Paulson is amazing I hope more people do videos like this.
(Ps just watched Sensei Seth last week)
Lots of nuggets there! Thanx for the great content
When I see Wing Chun like this? It honestly makes the standing portion of the Wing Chun hand system make more sense, it probably combines really well with other martial arts practices.
I feel the same way, as a goju ryu karate practitioner - Lots of Kata stuff and kakie makes more sense when seeing it as grappling
Wow! Great techniques. Good video. I wish there was more like this.
It was beautiful 2 see them have fun while demonstrating the art of wrestling 🤣💛,im a boxer and a martial artist,but I love the art of wrestling, just this 1 video taught me so much,I appreciate this lesson
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This is awesome! Erik Paulson has such a wealth of knowledge. My BJJ coach has a kung fu background and incorporates the hand fighting techniques as well.
He has created a whole ground system using wing chun.
It’s great.
Very practical indeed .Brilliant .
I would love to see the "Wing Tsun isn't practical" dudes spend some time getting tied into a pretzel by Paulson. He has dozens of ways he can hurt you and you can tell he's barely expending any effort. It's easier with a smaller opponent but still, absolute masterclass. When you realise that slapping your chest or your limbs serves a very practical purpose in the art.
This one is going to be a vodeo I have to rewatch over and over again till I understand all the moves he pulled on you.
... sheer awesomeness ... being a WC practitioner fro yonks loved seeing this thx x
this is good stuff!
more videos of wing chun application, please.
Absolute legend!!! Coach Paulson is amazing!!!
I hope Kevin enjoyed the Chiropractic Session
I did 😂😂
Been Following Sifu Lee quite a but now. And seen Many but not all the vids.. this is habds down one of the best collabs / coaching I have aeen well done Sifus Lee and Paulson !!
I believe Coach Paulson is one of the greatest gift martial artists had from universe🙏👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💪💪💪 thanks for the beautiful video 🙏🙏💪👏🏼
First you know Wing Chun, then you don't. Poor Kevin, thanks for having Coach Paulson onboard to let you fold you like a pocket cloth. Very insightful and good ground ground fighting.
😳😳😳 whoa!! That’s just mind blowing how effortless that seemed
This was brilliant to watch😊
Good stuff!!!! I've always dissed WC until I started do security work in clubs. One of the boys was hard core into his WC and did an amazing job crowd controlling using WC chi sao techniques.
Eric's catch wrestling is brutal hahaha
I really like the variety of martial arts you have on your channel, and how you always find the legit guys. I have not had the privilege of training with Erik Paulson. I was supposed to be at the 2007 seminar with him and Josh Barnett and Billy Robinson...but my money got funny. I will always regret missing that one. I did train with Billy later and had also trained with Fujiwara in 2006. The are a LOT of kung fu styles that really complement catch wrestling well. I find the techniques of Bajiquan the most interesting, with my wrestling background. Anyhow, keep up the great work!
This cheered me up so much ! GO WC ! Legend's !!
Man, he was doing so many submissions I've never even seen... AND every single move was a transition to another one. Bananas.
Awesome stuff as usual!