Proximamente hare una descripcion detallada de los programas de LAT SAO, si bien estos ejercicios no los practicaba YIP MAN, ni los practican los tradicionalistas del Wing Chun,  a mi en lo personal me parecen excelentes para acortar el camino del aprendizaje del VT, que importa si no los invento un chino, para mi funcionan. Hay gente que piensa que no son de wing chun y que no sirven, pero al practicarlos uno cambia de opinión. No son populares en muchos linajes porque entiendo fueron diseñados por la organización de Leung Ting, pero realmente hay que darles la oportunidad para valorarlos.

PROGRAMA 1

La transicion de la distancia larga a la corta

NOTA: Tambien adicionare la bibliografia de donde estoy sacando las teorias, para constatar que me estoy apoyando en buenas fuentes.

Gracias por la aclaracion Sifú Rinaldi,

Viendo la definicion que postearon en wikipedia (y que pego abajo) coincide que efectivamente provienen del Sr. Kernspecht.

Sería interesante que nos comentara de algunas similitudes de los componentes de Lat Sao con el sistema JKD, usted que ha incursionado en este ultimo arte.

Post de wikipedia (no se que tan preciso sea, pero aquí esta):

Lat Sao (甩手)

The Lat Sao program is something particular to the European branch of the Leung Ting style of teaching Wing Tsun; the other Wing Chun branches, including the Hong Kong branch of the Leung Ting's organization generally progress in a more traditional manner from the forms to Chi Sao training to sparring. Lat Sao roughly translates as "rolling hands" or "tumbling hands" training.

Lat Sao is a sensitivity drill to obtain specific Chi Sao reflexive responses. Although it may look combative, it should not be confused for sparring or fighting. Lat Sao is a game, in which one partner plays the part of an attacker, and the other a defender. The attacker and defender generally switch roles frequently, or after a set number of attacks. If one is not paying attention, or if the teacher has not explained the drill properly, the training can accelerate and become competitive; if this happens, the students are missing the point of the exercise altogether. Lat Sao is not about hitting your opponent, but about feeding him attacks that he trains to counter. As your partner becomes better, the attacks can be gradually made more difficult to counter by making them faster or more precise. However, once the attack is consistently getting through, it should be slowed down again, so that the defender can identify his mistake, or "hole" in the defense.

Lat Sao can be both beneficial and detrimental when not practiced with awareness of its benefits and its pitfalls. The benefits are generally a more technical and more precise style, because the student spends time testing his limits and finding his mistakes. A secondary benefit is student's greater confidence and less shock when first confronted with free-sparring programs. The pitfalls are over-reliance on patterns learned in drills and mechanical execution by rote, rather than feeling the opponent's pressure and reacting to it. It is beneficial to confront the students with unexpected solutions to problems posed in Lat Sao, as an exercise and to demonstrate that each Lat Sao drill is just one of very many possible solutions to a given problem. A good exercise is also asking a student to solve Lat Sao problems using newly learned techniques in each program; even if the things they come up with do not work, the habit of investigating the problem from different angles and not taking Lat Sao as something fixed in stone will help them avoid the pitfalls.

Saludos.

Emil escribió:

Si en un ejercicio....nos pasamos haciendo 20 veces la respuesta Pak Sao a un golpe, para finalmente dar nuestro propio golpe, estamos entrenando inconscientemente a nuestro cuerpo a perseguir primero las manos antes de golpear.

Coincido en que un error tipico es perseguir las manos en lugar de los objetivos( en un sparring ligero, etc) pero difiero en que no haya que hacer 20 veces (incluso muchas mas) un mismo ejercicio de manera artificial para que el cerebro lo registe en primera instancia, para que posteriormente desaprenda la parte mecanizada y reaccione de manera directa con el Pak Sao, o cualquier ejercicio preasimilado.

Otra cosa que coincido con Emil es lo de las fantasias..... estan demasiado arraigadas en el mundo de los artes marciales, que tipicamente brindan falsa seguridad a los alumnos.

Saludos a todos