Could This Be the REAL Way to Use Wing Chun? | Ft. Erik Paulson 

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My god, I was in awe the entire time watching this. Seeing Coach Paulson flow so effortlessly from technique to technique and incorporating elements of Wing Chun on the ground was, quite honestly, beautiful. Thank you Kevin for grappling with Coach Paulson and allowing him to demonstrate all those techniques.

Erik Paulson is awesome. Saw him using wing chun trapping techniques on the ground back in the 90's (I saw him using them on the top, from the mount). He's a true martial artist in every sense of the word. On an possibly unrelated sidenote: I trained with him for a few days at Grappling Unlimited in Hawaii back in 1998. Some ten years later, I ran into him at Minnesota Martial Arts Academy, and he remembered who I was, my fighting style, and who I trained under. Perhaps this encyclopedic memory is also why he is such at talented martial artist.

This guy is exactly how one of my long-time teachers is. An encyclopedia of techniques. Once you learn to love to lose, you become an animal with a teacher like this. Oss 👊

as someone who has trained wing chun for the last 15 years and bjj now for the last 2 years, i do strongly believe the two arts can work very very nice together. this was a FANTASTIC video

Fair play, Kevin keeps smiling even whilst he's being folded up like a piece of origami 😄

I still can't understand just how little energy he seems to be using. No wasted movement. Really amazing

He's a straight-up grappling genius!!! I see sambo, catch wrestling, judo, dumog, shoot wrestling, and bjj tied into one motion. Pretty effective combination, very creative in technical application, and execution.

Watching Erik Paulson work is always a massively entertaining info dump. The way he applies traditional concepts to very modern combatives, all while somehow getting his unfortunate partners to laugh thru the pain, is pure genius.

One thing I realised about sticky hands is that western martial arts has it too. It's called "the bind" in swordfighting when two swords clash and touch. Both fighters use this point of contact to feel where the opponent is and how hard or soft they are to then manoeuvre the swords around each other called "the wind" (like winding a clockwork spring). Would be wonderful if you tried your hand at HEMA and applied your knowledge there!

Major dad wrestling with his kid energy lol. Coach Paulson seems awesome.

I love how he barely had to say anything, yet the video is still packed full of information. This guy is next level.

Simply incredible. So much skilled integration, good god there are levels to the levels of levels he just leveled. 😮

It's amazing that Paulson almost never even looked at you! He was just feeling his way.

Amazing video. Paulson is obviously very skilled and not someone to mess with. Kudos to you Kevin for being his prince of pain. Every teacher has a favorite student. Looks you are have been the favorite of a number of great teachers. That's how the students become masters themselves over time.

The amount of pain you go through for us is nice to watch. 😂 Thanks Kevin!

I thought there was some really good stuff here. I would love to see more of Paulson, guy seems ultra talented and knowledgeable. Great teaching style too.

I always thought Wing Chun practitioners should train in Shuai Jiao. Use Wing Chun to break through defense for a take down. A traditional Chinese martial artists would benefit if they start with a foundation in Shuai Jiao. It’s the oldest martial art. I think most arts were created under the assumption you’ll be fighting someone who knows the basics of grappling. Also Shuai Jiao emphasize athleticism and the spirit of competition, which benefits all practitioners of every background.

I always said, Kung Fu and Wrestling blend so well together. No wonder those two ancient and vast martial arts stood so well to the test of time. They are like the grandparents of every martial arts. Even then, they were one at the begining of humanity when it was simply "fighting", before people spread out to the four corners of the world. I encourage training with sticky hands and pummeling as ONE drill. I'm very happy to see this. People need to know. Thanks Kevin for sharing those things that were nowhere to be seen on the internet before recently. The world of martial arts will be a better one the more we share instead of keeping things for ourselves forever. Even with a competitive mindset, it is a sane thing to do for our own sake too. So that our craft improves. This is gold content.

That was pure Wing Chun and an absolute lesson in pain! All respect given to Erik Paulson, a true example of what we should aspire to as martial artists. *bow*

Erik is the master Yoda of eclectic grappling arts. He's skilled in Judo, Jiujitsu, Sambo, Catch As Catch Can Submission Wrestling, American Folk Wrestling, French Wrestling, as well as Wing Tsun, Filipino Martial Arts, Jeet Kun Do and Silat.

Erik is such a gem of a person. Heart of gold and super skilled.

I couldn’t peel away I learned so much from the speed you two were moving great camera angles as well!

Now, that is some high-level groundwork! Awesome video Kevin 👍

Wow, You can tell he's got so much knowledge and experience from so many different styles of martial art, and he's flowing it all into grappling. Just incredible

Back in maybe 1995 I was a Wing Chun student in Australia, who excitedly went along to a Dan Inosanto seminar. During that seminar I saw a skinny young blonde guy, virtually my age, who demonstrated grappling flow where he moved from lock to lock to lock, and dominant position to position so easily and fluidly, I was amazed. I actually thought it was impossible to even remember so many locks! A few years later I eventually left Wing Chun and moved into MMA, to learn the ground game as I knew I had a big hole in my game. I've never forgotten that day, as I credit Mr Paulson with truly opening my eyes to the ground work that was possible. He's still amazing - and most likely even more so now!

lol Kevin just got ragdolled for 15 minutes. size def plays a factor let alone the vast experience that Erik has over you, true master living legend. great demonstration.

The most constant, efficient stream of information i have ever seen. I feel like i could come back to this video every couple of months and learn something more every time

This guy is a master

I can see how combining this with Priit Mihkelson's Defensive BJJ could evolve the system. A lot of the positions that are happening mirror the ones he focuses on.

I love how sensei Erik shows the concepts and applies it. Rolling with sensei Erik looks Painful enlightening and Fun😂 great video🔥

He’s simply one of the best instructors in the World without a doubt.

I'm really glad you're posting more Kevin. Your videos have really helped my striking and grappling!

This is an instant classic! Worthy of someone's Reaction video! EP is a legend. Imagine having rolled that much, just having metabolised so many positions and responses..

Kevin, man, you got packed up over 15 minutes just to teach us one of best lesson. Thank you! Both of you! It was great lesson!

This is a much neglected aspect of grappling in most of the BJJ I've trained. Some of these techniques are used in traditional Gracie Combative self defense curriculum, but there is so much more to explore and integrate. I watched a brand new BJJ white belt frustrate more experienced grapplers with his hand fighting and pummeling that he learned training Aikido. He didn't submit or dominate anyone, but he survived and moved quite well for a noob. Prior to training BJJ I had some experience with hubud-lubud drills, and it comes in handy at times.

From all the youtube " martial artist" i have the most respect for Kevin Lee because hé is honest and humble. Kevin Lee go on with your channel and life. Greetings from the Netherlands 🥋 OSU 🥋

This man is a flow-artist!!!!

Thanks to the both of you! I'd love to see more of this.

17 minutes of pure awesomeness. Thank you! Reminds me of one of the best instructors I ever had. These kind of guys are the best - you learn so much so fast ...

I think Paulson is one of the best on the planet. He’s well versed in so many arts and his proficiency is top notch. Love watching him work/play. Thanks for posting.

I got to train with Mr. Paulson back in '99. He was the guest partner at an Dan Inosanto weekend seminar that I attended in Minneapolis.

This guy is fantastic. Ex Wing Chun teacher here 4 years MMA still a beginner watching this is an inspiration!

Best.video.ever! many thanks! Coach Paulson brings so much to this session, it is gold. So much learning potential, thank you! Kevin, I am always impressed by your humble demeanor and attitude. Once things started to get sticky I knew you would end up being squashed 😂. You are an exceptional martial artist and content creator.

Amazing content Kevin! So many levels of wing chun applications in this video that I can recognize beng used in ways I havent thought off. ❤

Very generous video by Coach Paulson -- no b.s., start to finish nonstop teaching. TY sir.

Great video. I remember Erik Paulson from Bloodsport III, Steelio. I remember thinking, that guy knows a whole new world of fighting that the rest of us have never seen. I recognized him years later in MMA. Good to see he is still teaching

It's so cool to me watching this, in the wing chun i train which is european based, this is how we've done ground fighting ever since the start. I don't know if Erik has gone to the european side of things, but if he hasn't its amazing to me how great minds seem to think alike and come to the same effective conclusions based of pressure testing as my Grandmaster has. It's awesome to see this, i have barely seen any other people do this at all applying wing chun to grappling like this. And it really works very well and catches most grapples by surprise when you're good at it too. As Master Hans Remmel says: "Chi sao is not practical, but chi sao can make you be practical"

@Kevin I don't think I have laughed so hard watching a RU-vid martial arts video. That was just fun to watch. Erik is just smooth as glass and makes BJJ look like overly stiff Japanese karate. His moves are truly fluid. That is experience so he is having fun not teaching or training in the traditional sense. Well that's how you learn, spare with someone better than you. It reminded me of wrestling with my father as a teen, he was just too experienced. You learned something every time you got rolled. He would smile ,laugh then escape when I used something on him he did to me before. He didn't teach he did the technique on you and you had to figure out how to use it later. Very enjoyable video.

Fun to see Erik having fun and all those Catches most don't even know. Cheers

I'll be studying this video everyday for the next few months! Thank you SO much for posting.

What’s most amazing about Erik is the sheer amount of techniques he can show in a short amount of time dude is a serious encyclopedia of martial arts techniques

The incorporation of wing Chun concepts into the grappling and the floor fighting was eye opening. Thank you both.

WOW ! Great fun watching you both. Thanks for sharing.

Sensei Paulson, I felt it the first time I saw your instructionals, 20 years ago, you are a gem. I love the love and positivity you have in everything to do, Kevin was a good sport too, he gets it

Big thank you to you and Sensei Erik for this VERY instructive video!

Paulson is a beast. Classic Wing Chun has a whole branch dedicated to chin na (joint locking, and pressure point activation) where you learn how to apply specific pressure to specific vectors that force the opponent to move or have their joint hyper-extended and the more rarely used side is pushing in on specific soft tissue locations around the joint that will force the opponent to reflexively let go of your other appendage - this technique is not legal in competition BJJ so it is not as well known - for instance if someone has you in a darce or front headlock, knowing where to press with your thumb on the inside of the elbow joint makes it so you don't have to fight the strangle, you just get ready to pummel when the opponent reflexively loosens or jerks back in pain. There is a whole sport / art dedicated to developing energetic awareness within touch called "Tou Shui" that looks very similar to what Paulson was doing with the student at the beginning, pummeling the hands around to find the place where the opponent is already heading, and using the vector to your advantage.

I would love to see the "Wing Tsun isn't practical" dudes spend some time getting tied into a pretzel by Paulson. He has dozens of ways he can hurt you and you can tell he's barely expending any effort. It's easier with a smaller opponent but still, absolute masterclass. When you realise that slapping your chest or your limbs serves a very practical purpose in the art.

I think we are in a golden age of martial arts. Sharing and rediscovering so much

This was super fun to watch, nice work mate!

He has created a whole ground system using wing chun. It’s great.

I love this so much. This is how I used to interpret sensitivity training in wing chun. This just makes me so very happy!

Loved.. absolutely loved every minute of this.❤❤❤

Great training sesion! Great to see how you give respect to people that are whole life in martial arts.

So calm. Amazing

Coach Erik is the man! Amazing martial artist and human! Thanks for making this! Wish i had more access to him and you but im over here in the UK!

That’s high level knowledge with a ton of experience there from Erik. Thank you Kevin Lee for your work in collecting all this knowledge. 💫

This excellent teacher is one of the few that has deciphered the inner core of the wing chun lineages and showing to the public the mma applications....provided you have the wing chun MMA training before you enter a ring..provided you are using the heritage in your own lab...investigating the completeness of the system...so martial arts universals are here explained deliberately cleared from someone what has used the tools!!Admiration to both of you for bringing it up to our awareness .Greetings from Greece/Hellas

Erik is a living treasure.

That was brilliant. Thank you 🙏🏽

thanks kevin this video and the one with with greg nelson are absolute gold and it shows it's basically all the same but you won't see it if focus strictly on shapes rather than principles that are ALWAYS present.

I hope Kevin enjoyed the Chiropractic Session

First you know Wing Chun, then you don't. Poor Kevin, thanks for having Coach Paulson onboard to let you fold you like a pocket cloth. Very insightful and good ground ground fighting.

This was so fun to watch. The knowledge inside Paulson is amazing I hope more people do videos like this. (Ps just watched Sensei Seth last week)

I used to mix Wing Chun and Aikido similarly. Glad to see grappling applications getting some play. Erik Paulson is so damn good. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this amazing video. It's very interesting and expresses excellent the fun part of practicing martial art together 😊❤🙏.

Erik Paulson is an absolulte treasure in the martial arts community!!!

Man, he was doing so many submissions I've never even seen... AND every single move was a transition to another one. Bananas.

This is your best video. Coach Paulson has more knowledge than I ever be able to acquire in a lifetime.

Lots of nuggets there! Thanx for the great content

Very practical indeed .Brilliant .

Wow! Great techniques. Good video. I wish there was more like this.

This was my a joy to watch. I think I'll be watching this one several times and studying

Coach Erik Paulson is my favorite RU-vid coach. I love this man. He’s a hero to me.

Absolute legend!!! Coach Paulson is amazing!!!

This was something I had to learn for myself. Now i can wrestle blindfolded lol. I was taught chisao and push hands for the purpose of learning eskrido from my eskrima teacher. and all of these energy sensitivity drills have definitely sharpened my ability to read chi through touch (pushing force sensitivity). I'm very philosophical and somehow I learned how to incorporate my eskrima lessons into my grappling training. It's like the instincts just came in. I'm a wrestling coach and I've been trying to teach this for the past year to my folkstyle wrestlers without a set curriculum or system to build them up to it. What sucks tho is when you feel like you're onto something, it's hard to put it into words. It's like, you learned it for yourself and now you gotta learn how to teach it by yourself

When I see Wing Chun like this? It honestly makes the standing portion of the Wing Chun hand system make more sense, it probably combines really well with other martial arts practices.

Paulson is so impressive with his transitions.. endless book of knowledge but he always brings it back to core principles. This guy is is a western version of a " master".

This was brilliant to watch😊

Been Following Sifu Lee quite a but now. And seen Many but not all the vids.. this is habds down one of the best collabs / coaching I have aeen well done Sifus Lee and Paulson !!

this is good stuff! more videos of wing chun application, please.

The fluidity in the movements is absolutely insane. That’s why it’s called martial ARTS! Amazing

This is awesome! Erik Paulson has such a wealth of knowledge. My BJJ coach has a kung fu background and incorporates the hand fighting techniques as well.

It's weird. I am kind of jealous of Kevin for having the opportunity to roll with Eric Paulson and also... kind of not.

Awesome stuff as usual!

This cheered me up so much ! GO WC ! Legend's !!

He reminds me of my old judo/jacket wrestling coach John Holm. He mixes his American sense of humor, devious techniques, amazing innovations, and picks on you like you're an 8 year old kid fighting his uncle. Love it!

Good stuff!!!! I've always dissed WC until I started do security work in clubs. One of the boys was hard core into his WC and did an amazing job crowd controlling using WC chi sao techniques. Eric's catch wrestling is brutal hahaha

This is probably the best grappling video on youtube

Poor Kevin ! Tapping out did not seem to save him. Paulson is clearly a Master. I love how he uses, in this video, techniques that do not focus on strength or striking.