Attention to JKD/Wing Chun Sifus, I have a question on pac sao?

Question

the thing is though, the guy i was doing pac sao with LITERALLY "slapped" my arm, resulting in the red spots and stuff.

Answer 1

I'm neither JKD nor Wing Chun, but the human body is the same regardless of which martial art you've chosen. You're not going to build a callous on your arm from getting hit there. So it's pointless. You're not going to build up some dermal armor that'll protect you in a fight, just by letting some idiot in class hit you harder than he should have, for one afternoon.

If your instructors believe otherwise, I'd consider reassessing the merit of that school. Especially considering its lay on the JKD claim; these days, you'll find a lot of McDojos claiming to be JKD.

I don't know, it could just be me, though. I have a hard time expecting someone who doesn't understand the human body to be able to each me about martial arts.

Answer 2

If you hurt people during training you run out of people willing to train with you.

The slapping hand shouldn't pull down across the arm, in the way you would normally slap something, but once contact is made remain on the arm and push it to the body, more like an impacting push. This can cause some extra blood flow to the skin which will result in reddening if done repeatedly. The first way can cause irritation as it stretches the skin, pulls arm hairs and opens up pores, you may also have had a reaction to his sweat or a soap residue on his hand.

Answer 3

Ok in Thi Boxing they kick trees to destroy their Nervous. You shouldn't be doing anything like that to your body! Unless if you want to be some fighter for a living don't do it! Your going to get hurt. Study more about your wing chun and use your stick hands more effectively. Do crane and get inside his guard.It's good to stay inside his guard to push his punches away. Or do Beauty looks at Mirror and get outside of his guard. Then push his punches to the side.  Tell your teacher to teach you some Parry's so that wont happen again. Unless your trying to break boards with your forearms. It's about speed not brute force.

Answer 4

suck it up. it happens. tell him to ease off next time.

its not a big deal, dont worry about it.

you wont get callouses. you might build calcium deposits over time though. especially on the mok yan jong

i had a guy do armbars on me so hard once that i had big red stretch marks on the inside of my elbow. its part of training. it shouldnt happen but it does...we talked it over and it didnt happen again.

if its not better...or improving by tomorrow, or if it gets worse go see a Dr.

it's probably akin to a type of bruise. some are blotchy red areas. which is likely as it was a slap rather than a knuckle or something sharper.