How To Do Chi Sao: Wing Chun Sticky Hands (Self Defense Series) Paperback – 27 Mar. 2014

A slim publication that has simplistic diagrams and descriptions. Too basic for a wing chun practitioner and too brief for the novice to be guided. I am unsure if the glowing reviews are down to the brilliance of this book (in which case you can ignore my opinion) or the offer of free future books if you give good reviews. My copy has been gifted to a charity shop.

This book is for the very new Wing Chun martial artist. If you have more than 6 months Chi Sao experience this is not a book for you.I probably expected too much, having studied Wing Chun for over two years now, I knew all of the techniques in the book so has absolutely no benefit to me.For the absolute beginner as an introduction to Chi Sao it is ok. Would be a lot better with photos.

LIKED: Ease and clarity of information, very good diagrams and clear descriptions of drills, forms, etc.DISLIKED: Book misleadingly advertised as 66 pages. Only 1-50 actually relate to Wing Chun. Description "66 pages" includes several blank page separators, contents list, introduction, "about author" and pages where author flogs other books, courses, etc.

Good clear well presented book...quality service.

Fast delivery. After a browse through book l can't wait to get started

Like it ,just learning this though and have to learn alot more yet. Informative

Most excellent simple and clear enjoying it a lot cheers Michael

good stuff

tiny booklet full of large diagram drawingsvery few thoughts.. hardly anything to learn3 types of hand movements - palm up and opening outward, palm down and hooking inward, elbow bent rolling deflectalso some simple leg deflecting and attackingthe concept of flowing smoothlyfeeling with the forearmsgiving and the redirecting.. common thingsdisappointed

Good book about the basic drills of Wing Chung.Even if you are not training Wing Chung but an other martial art it may be useful to include some basic drills for the close quarter combat !!!!The book is easy written and esy to understand with drawings to explain.So I can just recommend it !Just two things:1, Some pictures would be fine2. Some links to videos to show th moves would be fine !

I am a Wing Chun practitioner and this is not a very good book on the martial art. I did not see a lot of blaring errors, but the presentation and illustrations leave much to be desired. To be completely honest, Chi Sao is the one area of Wing Chun Kung Fu that you really cannot learn from a book. You need a qualified teacher and training partner. I commend the author for a good try, but in the end it comes up very short. Do not understand why the book received such good reviews.

Chi SAO it's a complex technique. It requires clear imagery and clear explanation throughout the entire process. None of these concepts will be found in this book. All steps are explained using drawings that really lack clarity and the explanation lacks the format of the Wing Chun discipline. Perhaps the author could be skilled in the matter, but has to work more on passing his knowledge through his book. Grayscale images would have sufficed to convey clearly the steps of the Chi Sao exercises. Too bad he opted for not clear drawings instead.

It's pretty straightforward and doesn't waste any time with pointless advice. There are a lot of pictures with step by step instructions. However, it is a pretty short book with large print and pictures, so made me feel like I was reading a kids short story book. That's the only reason I'm giving 4 stars. For the price, there might be more thorough books.

Instructions are good just wanted more

Too brief,lack of real photo,Art of chi sao, is a kind of borrowing force, however, the method in this book depends on much hand force to finish the attackNot my ideal book

Good product good price

I love this ebook because it brought back memories of doing chi sao with my sifu. It has been along time but I still remember how to do chi sao.

Gifted by my husband to learn Chi Sao. Great book to learn self defense. Methods are illustrated with simple and easy words. Loved this book. Must have one.

Thank you.

It was all that I expected it to be.

If anything, why not real pictures. You learn Chi Sao by "feel" not cartoons. Good try but it falls short.

It's is just fine, nothing spectacular.

Very explanatory of techniques. A very good book