"First of all, people should understand that things are not always an application. You can use applications or exercises to show a person how things work, however, you should never think in terms of applications. The most important thing is that people understand that Wing Chun helps you to create certain behaviour and attributes for fighting. For example, Chi Sau is an exercise where we exchange force and it is used to further develop our fighting skills. We need 'knock out' power, so we need to programme our bodies for this. Therefore, we create behaviour that we can punch from any direction, at any time. People need to develop the attributes. If not, they will be stuck in movements like Taan Da against this kind of attack and another fixed movement against another kind of attack. That’s application thinking. It’s all about changing your behaviour. Fighting is fighting, just like swimming is swimming—we have to adapt our bodies to this thinking."
-- Spread of our cover interview with Sifu Philipp Bayer from the upcoming Issue No. 19. New issue on sale August 22.#WingChunIllustrated #WingChun#PhilippBayer
