Participants of varying levels of attainment practicing together and enjoying themselves

Combat sequences are our forte in our sparring methodology. Amongst many benefits, they help you to overcome two major problems many martial artists face when sparring, one faced by an initiator, or attacker, and the other faced by a responder, or defender.

A major problem many initiators face is wondering what pattern to use next. When you use a combat sequence, you don’t have this problem, you merely execute the sequence.

A major problem many responders face is how to use proper kungfu patterns to respond correctly and spontaneously to random attacks. This is indeed a big problem for many martial artists. When they start thinking of what patterns to use, they become hesitant, and soon discover that punches and kicks rain on them.

The secret is that in combat you do not think. Whatever thinking there may be, has been done in pre-combat training. In combat you just respond spontaneously and correctly. Combat sequences provide you a systematic way to do so.

Of course, you would not be able to do this if you have not been systematically trained. This is the situation most other kungfu practitioners all over the world are facing now. This explains why they are unable to use kungfu for combat.

Some non-Shaolin Wahnam members reading this may again accuse us of being boastful or conceited. That is their opinion and their business, and we are not going to waist our time on their opinion. We state a truth courageously, and are generous enough to share relevant secrets with those who may want to benefit from reading our webpages.

A defender may successfully use kungfu patterns to defend against attacks coming in a pre-arranged order, but how can he defend against attacks coming at random? Such skills will be trained in later stages of our sparring methodology.

At the earlier stages, you condition yourself to respond spontaneously and correctly to certain attacks. If an opponent throws you a middle-level punch, for example, you spontaneously respond with “Single Tiger”. If he throws you a low-level punch, your spontaneously respond with “Hand Sweep”. It is like using language. When you have to say something in a given situation, you just say it spontaneously. You don’t have to think of what words and what grammar to use.

These early stages are mainly covered in Sequences 1 to 4, which also develop some fundamental combat skills. Sequences 5 to 8 expand your repertoire of hand attacks and defences.

When you have completed one sequence, logically you can continue with another sequence. The video clips below show the mechanics involved in the continuation from one sequence to another.

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Continuation by Gliding Forward

Alejandro of Spain, who is a beginner, and Sifu Jamie of England, who is a master, perform Sequence 5. A special feature in Shaolin Wahnam is that practitioners of vastly different levels can practice and benefit together. Then Grandmaster Wong shows how the responder, i.e. Alejandro, can continue with any one of the Sequences 1 to 4. As both the completing and the continuing sequences use the left-leg mode, Alejandro needs only to glide his left leg forward. But he must ask the way, which he can accomplish by opening or closing the opponent’s leading hand.
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