Chi Sau is not an agreement between gentlemen
But Chi Sau is not an
agreement between gentlemen, much less an invitation to dance. Chi Sau is the
opportunity that the system provides for the practitioner to experience the
condition of being someone who, first, can be hurt, and then hurt. At a high
level, it is the opportunity to experience the possibility of dying or killing.
In this order.
However, no one needs
to be hurt, hurt someone, die or kill to experience the human development that
vulnerability and lethality offer. Like babies and children, who feel helpless
in the face of a world full of unpredictability and other threatening living
beings, the first times we do Chi Sau we feel fragile. The human body remains
fragile, but after a while, we realize that we can also hurt and kill others,
who are just as fragile. I believe that this perception is a turning point, and
that is when many practitioners of Ving Tsun move away from Mo Gun: as soon as
they realize that Chi Sau is not an agreement between gentlemen.