Pure Bliss

[Soap]

This is my new friend that I will spend time with to work out my problems and to clarify my mind:

 

[Schuey2002]

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is it?? Is it something to do with chop-sockey??

 

[DaveH2]

Looks like a Mook Jong; aka Wing Chun dummy. The arms look somewhat angular from the photo, however, the arms appear to be at the angle for WC. Generally, WC dummies have more rounded arms. Different styles have historically had their own dummy variants for the various specializations (Shaolin Kung Fu, Praying mantis, etc.). That one looks like you would hit some angles if you did certain WC type movements.

 

[Schuey2002]

Ah, soooooo..

 

[El Tejon]

When you titled the photo "dummy3" I thought it was going to be a pic of me!!!

I can't believe Sarah let you put that up in the living room.

Geoff sez mine will be done in February. Two-toned mook, tactifulfu.

 

[Soap]

Yeah it is a Wing Chun dummy. This one is a variant of the traditional one that is intended to be more compact. Being a college student, I don't exactly have the room for a full size dummy. The arms are squared for the simple reason that it is easier to construct. But they're hell on my forearms!

El Tejon- I couldn't believe it either. She is just going to tell her art snob friends that it is a "handmade piece of contemporary sculpture"

 

[El Tejon]

When my full-sized mook is done, I'm going to put a bear head on the trunk and bear paws on the arms. I'll be ready for SHTF from zombie ninja bears.

Hmmm, what would be in my BOB for zombie mook jongs dressed like bears? What would be my escape vehicle? (Maybe just turn off lights and walk upstairs from basement).

Dan, you need to post a poll: "Which gun for mook jong?"

 

[wingnutx]

My silent training partner is a water-filled heavy bag.

5 pounds empty, 90 pounds full

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

Wing Chun dummy

As the Miami Herald's Dave Barry would say, "great name for a rock band."

 

[BerettaNut92]

Is that post coming out of the middle supposed to be...uhh.....

 

[El Tejon]

Skunk, this is The High Road now. No, just a arm (low strike to ribs, uppercut, etc.).

wing, need to get a heavy bag now that basement is done. Mook, heavy bag, wall bags, swords, pole, gloves, head gear, chest protector, training knives, training guns, et al. Man, for such a "stream-lined" boxing style it sure do have a lot o' gear.

 

[Ryder]

You'll poke your eye out with that thing.

 

[El Tejon]

No, but he'll break his arms if Dan's not careful. And yet he does not bruise as hard as he hits the mook (must be ancient Chinese secret).

Dan always makes certain that the rest of us are awake when he goes through the mook jong form. Ear protection is needed.

 

[Wanderer]

Forgive my ignorance: How do you use it?

 

[Soap]

Dan always makes certain that the rest of us are awake when he goes through the mook jong form. Ear protection is needed.

A big

Wanderer- You do the traditional eight sets of the wooden man or other drills on it. Traditionally, the forms are only taught from Sifu to student so it is really a trade secret. One could look in books but they still aren't getting the real wooden man forms from the Yip Man lineage.

 

[Bainx]

Wanderer, you take your pocket knife and whittle it to death.

 

[seeker_two]

You have Al Gore as a roommate?...

 

[El Tejon]

Wanderer, it's a training aid for teaching footwork with fluidity combined with blocking, interecepting and striking (and kicking), later weaponry (the staff/spear and the swords [the shorter "baat jam do" or "butterfly swords"]) for the beer-breath range fighting that Wing Chun Kuen stresses. The theory being that via continual drill a boxer will develop power by a correct relationship with his opponent.

However, Dan uses it to toughen his iron skin.