Bil_Jee101

I recently started taking wing chun, and my wrists arent flexible enough for a lot of the hand movements. I play guitar, and my fingers are extememly flexible... but I cant seem to bend my wrists far enough. Are there wrist exercises to increase flexiblity? I develop some pain sometimes during class from bending my wrists to far, also my hands get shaky. any ideas?

NickL

Here's some wrist exercises I do, and I'm a musician as well.

1) Hold arm out to sides, make loose fist, rotate wrists in one direction for several repetitions, then repeat in opposite direction. I usually do it till my arms are too heavy to hold up, though I'm sure 12 reps in both directions would be ok for beginers.

2) Hold arms out in front of you make fists, pretend like you're ringing out a wet cloth, one wrist goes up while the other goes down.

3) With arm straight,Gently stretch wrist by pulling hand backwards with other hand, then gently stretch wrist by pushing hand downwards towards inner forearm. Don't use too much pressure.

4) Hold arm out with palm up, like tan sau. Bring fingers together to a point (like a beak) and move wrist towards body with fingers pointing towards body, keeping this position, rotate wrist downwards and hold for a few seconds, rotate wrist back to starting postion and open fingers back to palm up position. Repaet several times. Can be done with one arm at a time or both if you like.

5) Keep practicing huen sau and the bil jee wrist pivoting.

Hardball

Welcome to the club, I had the same problem when I too wing chun.

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phenom

you dont need flexible wrists for wc you do need to be able to huen sao reasonably well to pull of some of the techniques.Huen sao in and out or clockwise and anti clockwise frequently to help with this as the other guy said do this while u are in tan sao posistion. you can drill this on the dummy by sticking to one of the arms and huen sao from inside the arm to outside or vice versa good luck

blitz

Grab a stick and do a rolling system from arnis/kali if you know it. Keep doing it with both hands and your wrists will be very flexible

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