5 Stances Form - Wu Bu Quan

The 5 stances form is the very firs wushu form you should learn. Work on your stances for a couple of days and then learn this. Additional exercise: You can also try to hold every position for 30 seconds. Performed by: Yang Jia Le. Coach: Wang Guang Ming - Song Jiang Wushu School - Wushu Head Coach.

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Big Broadsword Circle Movement

The big broadsword circle ( wu hua da ) is one of the most basic sword techniques and can be seen in every modern and most traditional broadsword forms. This video focuses on the sword movement. Depending on your wushu instructor or your personal style you can move the left hand slightly different. However, the most basic form is raising the arm when the sword moves towards the left side of your trunk and then let your left hand sink down next to your right eye when you swing the sword back.

Performed by Yang Jia Le from the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Coach: Wang Guang Ming ( wushu competition team )

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Taikyoku Sono Ichi

Taikyoku Sono Ichi - kata performed by the Kyokushin Dojo La Paz. Rigobertes Paredes 1234. Cell: 70683992

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Ataque Traumatizante

Ataque Traumatizante performed by the bolivian capoeira team Pequeños Mandingueiros.

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Sanda Fighting Stance

In this video lesson you will learn how to do a sanda fighting stance. Performed by Li Xin from the Sanda - 1 - Competition Team of the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Stand on the balls of your feet and bend your knees slightly. The distance between the feet is a bit more than one shoulder with. Keep the weight 50 percent on the back leg and 50 percent on the front leg. Don't lean forward, don't lean back. Don't bend your knees to one side. Stand centered. Round your back slightly and keep your abs contrated a little. Keep your shoulders relaxed and let your elbows hang. Don't lift your elbows because if you do, your opponent could kick you in the ribs. The back hand stays close to the chin and the shoulder protects the other side of your head. However, keep in mind that you should not lift you shouders too much. ( keep shoulders relaxed ) Bend your head down a little bit, but keep looking straight forward at the same time. ( actually stare straight forward ) The elbows are bent about 90 degrees and the fists are closed. Fists close but not cramped. ( if you cramp your fists, your punches will became slow and stiff.
This lesson is also available as animated tutorial:
SANDA FIGHTING STANCE TUTORIAL - ANIMATED

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Left Right Combination

This video shows how to combine front hand hook punch and back hand straight punch ( left right combination ) . The front hand hook punch is usually thrown first. Watch the hip movement in the first punch. Keep your right hand close to your chin to protect your head. Then throw a back hand punch, which is even stronger ( back hand punches are stronger, but because the distance to the impact is longer, it's easier see them coming ) . Watch the hip movement and the back leg when Li Xin throws the second punch. Now the left hand is close to the chin.

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Sanda Front Kick

Sanda Front Kick
The sanda front kick is very similar to the front kick of other matial arts such as karate, thaiboxing or tae kwon do. Start from your fighting stance and lift your knee close to the chest. The higher you lift the knee, the higher you can kick. However, sanda is not about high front kick. Sanda is all about fast and powerful leg techniques ( height is not very important ). Then extend your leg and kick your opponent with the ball of the foot ( not with the heel or the tip of the toe ). It's very important that you push your hips forward and lean slightly back shortly before the impact. This way the kick is faster, reach is better and the kick becomes stronger. Not pushing the hips forward is wrong technique and makes it very easy for your opponent to counter attack ( especially as your head will be very close to the reach of his fists ). This sounds simple, but actually the right timing for this hip push is hard to find. Another thing you can do for better reach is hopping farward as you kick ( only do a very small hop at the beginning ). Then pull your foot back and bring your knee back to your opper body. Don't lust let your leg fall. If you get used to pulling the foot back in a straight horizontal line, you opponent will never be able to grab your leg. Your leg wil literally slip out of his hands... ahmmm... I mean gloves. Practice the front kick with kick pads like shown in the video or work on a heavy bag.

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Leg Hook - Arm Sweep Throw

This thow is applied when you are very close to your opponent. Grab his right arm with your left arm by pressing his forearm with your upper arm onto your ribs. Your right arm is on your opponents back. Then hook your right leg around his left leg ( from the inside ). Stay close to your opponent. To apply the throw, lift your leg, lower zour left arm to zour opponents ankle ankle and push him down with your right arm at the sime. Timing, timing, timing. Performed by:

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Sanda Hip Wheel ( grabbing neck )

In this lesson you will learn how to do a sanda hip wheel grabbing your opponents neck. Put the right arm around your opponents neck and grab his right arm with your upper body and your upper arm / squeeze ( see video ). Step away with your left leg and pull your opponent with you. Lower your stence to make your position more stable. Then turn your upper body to the left so that your opponent basically hangs on your back. Legs slightly bend. Finally pull him over your hip and extend your legs at the same time. ( look to your own feet for a short moment )

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Leg Grab Whirl Throw - Sanda Xuan Shuai

The leg grab whirl throw ( in chinese: xuan shuai ) is a circular leg throw often applied after a slow thrusted kick ( especially side kicks and front kicks ). Grab your opponents leg with your arms. Hold the foot between biceps and trunk and press the glove of the other hand on top ( see video ). Practice how to grab your opponents leg with gloves on. Next you have to get used to your opponents movements. If you move forward, your opponent will move towards you. If he doesn't, you will easily push him off the platform and get 3 points. So you push, stop, push, pull, etc. Just don't let his leg go. Whenever he tries to balance out his position, you pull his foot down to the floor and to the left. This should happen when he hops ( he will have to hop, beause he only stands on one leg ). For this throw your timing has to be perfect and of cause it only works if your were able to grab one of your opponents slow kicks. Keep in mind that you don't have your hands free. If your opponent bends his knee and comes too close, better sweep him.

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Overhead Lift Throw - Sanda Kang Shuai

In this lesson you will learn how to apply a sanda overhead lift throw with gloves on ( in chinese Kang Shuai ). This throw is applied when your opponent throws a heavy punch in head height. Tuck and step forward with your front leg like if zou were doing a lunge. Press your shoulders against your opponents hips. Push forward, so that he basically falls on your left shoulder. Surround his legs with your arms and stand up pushing forward at the same time. Then let him fall over your back.

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Rolling Pull Throw - Sanda

Learn how to apply a rolling pull throw. Squeeze your opponents righ arm between your biceps and your trunk and pull him with you ( if necessary with your right arm around his back ). To throw him, move back and down, turn to the left and put right arm over the outside of your opponents lead leg ( see video ). Push your right arm to the right side as you turn to the left and pull his right arm ( the one squeezed between your biceps and your trunk ) with you.
Peformed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong from the Song Jiang Sanda-1 Competition Team.

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Sanda Roundhousekick Legpull Throw

In this lesson you will learn how to do a roundhouse kick leg pull throw. Catch your opponents roundhousekick in front of your chest. Hook your opponents knee with your lead arm and push the other hand on top of his ankle. Then step back with your right leg and pull and push your opponents ankle down with your right hand. ( see video )

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Straight Sanda Punches

In this lesson you will learn how to throw straight sanda punches. Fist you have to stand in a good fighting stance, bring your arms and elbows in the right position and look staight forward. At the begining you should practice this without hopping or walking around. For more info on how to do a sanda fighting stance, check the fighting stance video. When you punch, you have to twist your fist, so that the back hand points up at the end. Twist your fist at the end of the punch and not at the beginning. Your fist should touch the opponent when your elbow is 80% extended. If you hit your opponent to early or too late, the impact will not be very hard. Extend your shoulder as you punch and keep your chin down and the other hand close to the head ( for protection ). Also use your hips and twist a little on the ball of the foot to put more power into your punch. Don't lean foward too much or you will lose control. In China beginners practice straight punches in front of mirrors for weeks before they start walking and punching. When you throw a front hand punch, twist a little on the ball of the front foot. If you throw a back hanf punch, twist on the ball of the back foot. Later you can try to punch while stepping forward ( increases reach and power ). However, there is an additional lesson for this.

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Sanda - Leggrab Hookthrow

The leg grab hook throw ( in chinese: bao tui gou shuai ) is a sanda throw where you grab your opponents leg and then sweep his leg. You can apply this technique after a side kick or a front kick. Grab your opponents leg like shown in the video. One hand under the leg and push with the glove of the other hand on top of his ankle. Then move forward and hook his thigh close to the hip area ( shoulders close to opponents trunk ). Stand up a little and hook / sweep his standing leg. The only moment where your opponent could counter-attack you is when you move forward ( you don't have your hands free but he can punch you ).

Animated Sanda Lessons:

Sanda Main

Sanda Fighting Stance

Performed by: Li Xin and Zhang Hua Dong
Coach: Zhou Zhang Yong - Song Jiang Wushu School

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Combo - Punch Punch Frontkick

This video just shows a typical sanda combination ( zu he ). Punch - Punch - Frontkick. Combos like this one often trained for hours. Of course this is just an example of how you can work on your combos. Usually you punch and kick for 1 minute and then you take the kick pads and your training partner punches/kicks.

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Combo: Sidekick Block - Hookpunch - Lift

This video shows a typical sanda combination. Sidekick Block - Hookpunch - Overhead Lift Throw. You can practice combinations ( zu he ) like this with a training partner. ( take turns / appr. 1 minute each ) BTW... Don't throw your training partner when he has kick pads on his arms.

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Combo: Sidekick - Punch - Sidekick

This sanda zuhe ( sanda combination ) is very effective when your opponent keeps going on distance. Practice this with a training partner ( kick pads ). This is just a sample combo. Of course you can make up your own combinations. Usually of 2 or 3 techniques.

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Low Roundhouse Kick Defenses

This video shows 3 defenses against low roundhouse kicks.
1. Block the kick with yout shin and counter-attack.
2. Hop back
3. Grab your opponents leg and counter attack ( punch, kick or throw ).

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Side and Front Kick Defense

This video show defenses against side and front kicks. Side and front kicks are straight, thrusted kicks, that's why you escape to one side instead of hopping backwards. Roundhouse kicks on the other side are circular kicks and therefore, defense techniques are different.

1. Escape to the left or the right and block the kick with your arm ( see video ). Then counter attack or just keep going.
2. You can also grab your opponents leg and throw or sweep him.
3. If your opponent kicks head height, you can't grab his leg, but you can still block and counter-attack or apply another throw ( where your don't grab the foot ).

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