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The story that leads up to my arrival in Cape Town, South Africa is one of the most harrowing tales of frustration I ever had with an airline.  I will relay this in another post.

This was my first time ever being out of the country and I was extremely excited.  Not only was I going to be doing makeup effects I also had a major part in the movie.

However during this time I was going though some difficult “relationship” issues and was perpetually angry despite my incredible happiness and having this amazing career opportunity.  I smoked and drank way too much which was never in my personality traits up until I was 25 but emotions getting the best of me has always been a weakness of mine.  Martial Arts has been my conduit for relief so I was elated when I met Tem Morrison.

We discussed martial arts at every opportunity and would find areas to practice.  During this era of my training I was HEAVILY promoting the Jeet Kune Do core training and tried my best to convince him to go that route.  Tem had experience in boxing but insisted on the discipline that Karate instilled.  I agreed since I received my Black Belt in Tang Soo Do Style Karate years ago and I was teaching it since I was 14.

As I mention in the youtube description, he was a natural.  Everything I showed him he did with precision and focus.  It was seeing him progress thanks to my knowledge that my attitude began to change.

When I arrived back in the States after a month on location I did some soul searching and put that anger and frustration that I unknowingly had been carrying with me for years.  It took an incredible amount of effort (and therapy).  I quit smoking.  Although I was never an alcoholic, my drinking became social instead of a tool of quelling emotions.

Martial Arts has always been my saving grace.  No matter what the situation.  Tem helped me rediscover why discipline is important.  When a teacher learns from a student it's one of the most rewarding achievements an instructor wishes for.

This is from my 2002 personal video training diary.  This was meant for my personal reference for a video series I was planning and not as an instructional video.

The Lop Sao Switch is one of the precursor energy drills to Chi Sao (Sticky Hands).  I learned this on my very first JKD class under Bill Mattucci during 1991.  Applying it to the dummy takes a bit of adjusting and getting used to so this is an intermediate technique that you will develop into. 
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This demo shows you how to practice this exercise on the Wooden Dummy when a partner is unavailable.

As a beginner you may extend your arms further due to lack of wrist flexibility but as you progress move in closer testing your wrist flexibility using PROPER FORM as I do in the video.

The closer you get to the dummy the more difficult it will be to have correct form but keep at this and your wrist flexibility will improve as will your strength.

Your shoulders, hips, and feet should ALWAYS be in line.  Otherwise you are off balance and will not generate power.  

The picture on the left is how you DON'T want to look.  

His hips are beyond his heels and the torso is leaning forward beyond his toes.  Don't be like this.  It's not Wing Chun.  It's not JKD.  Kinda looks like Silat.  It's not art, no street practicality, and worthless in sport.  3/3 fail.
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The key is to focus on Centerline using springing energy while honing your technique.  This has and ALWAYS will be my primary focus on using the Mook Jong.  I can not stress this enough.  This is NOT an impact training tool.

I trimmed this video to prevent the constant repitition and the squeek of my arms against the wooden arms.  Constant repetition on the Dummy will hone your Wing Chun skills like no other piece of training equipment.

This is the last post from the 2002 video.  This was fun to revisit and sparked some creativity in wanting to do more.

Have a request for Wooden Dummy training?  Place it in the comments!