Wing-Chun's Tin-Wan-Huen

The Tin-Wan-Huen “Iron linked circle” was used to strengthen and develop the coordination of the bridge arms in conjunction with the Yee-Jee-Kim-Yeung-Ma stance and footwork. Because of its heavy weight the practitioner’s elbows sink down while training, and thus are stabilized by gravity (through relaxed trapezius and deltoid muscles) and manifest what the Chinese call Jang-Dai-Lik (Elbow sinking power).

Once the practitioner’s movements were smoothly integrated, training would progress to the Jook-Wan-Huen “Bamboo linked circle” (the lighter of the two versions) where the training of pliable isometric spring strength, individual rotation of the forearms, and vorticular rotation between the bridge arms culminated in an explosive expansion and con¬traction of Bau-Ja-Ging “Exploding power” and Cheun-Ging “Drilling power”.