INTRODUCTION

Chi Sao is used in Wing Chun as a training tool for positioning and sensitivity of you and your opponent. The art of Chi Sao is to stay in contact with both your opponents arms and using positioning and sensitivity to get through their defence and keep yourself from being attacked.

Chi Sao in itself takes years to master and understand in it's entirety. The simplest way to explain Chi Sao would be to look at it as a six month old child would look at a toy. The child does not see toy as a toy but an object. This object may have different colours, shapes, and different materials as in plastics and metals, and the child may also want to know if it is chewable and does it taste nice. So what's this got to do with Chi Sao ...? Well as the child explores the toy this is how we should explore our opponent. If I do something does this make my opponent do something else? If I change angle will my opponent do the same if they don't what do I do and so on?