Chin na (Seize and Control)

Chin na is the art and practice of seizing and controlling. Chin na applications are dispersed throughout the sets and gaining an understanding of these applications will enhance the students level of comprehension, leading to mastery of the forms.

There are hundreds of Chin na applications but we have narrowed the teaching down to those applications that are recognizable in the forms or can be put to practical use.

The Chin na techniques are broken out into four catagories:

Finger Chin na

Wrist Chin na

Elbow Chin na

Neck Chin na

Quote of the Week

"Second is mindfulness of feelings, it is at this stage that we work with the chi or fine material energy. The chi is most easily perceived through feelings and this path of practice helps one to bypass the common pitfall of relying on imagination and visualization of the internal energy as this can quickly become a fabricated fantasy rather than a direct knowing of reality in the present."

~Sifu Adam Mizner