Fungsi Utama Berlatih dengan Mok Yan Jong / Wooden Dummy / Manusia kayu

Fungsi Utama Berlatih dengan Mok Yan Jong / Wooden Dummy / Manusia kayu 

ilustrasi wing chun menggunakan mok yan jong

Mok Yan Jong (Bahasa kanton: muk yan jong/Mandarin: mu ren zhuang) menurut arti harfiah adalah 'gelondongan kayu' yang ditancapkan di atas tanah, karena seperti itulah bentuk posisi sebenarnya sebuah mok yan jong. Ada berbagai macam bentuk mok yan jong, tetapi yang sangat dikenal luas dan populer yang berasal dari wing chun dan jeet kune do.Dahulu dalam kuil saolin terdapat 108 bentuk boneka kayu, yang kemudian digabungkan menjadi satu oleh biarawati Ng Mui, untuk membuat pelatihan lebih efisien dan efektif. Boneka kayu wing chun menggunakan konfigurasi lengan dan kaki yang dirancang untuk mengolah keterampilan berkelahi, power dan chi secara bersamaan. 

Tidak hanya Wingchun saja, yang dapat menggunakan mok yan jong sebagai alat latihannya. Berbagai aliran beladiri lainnya, seperti pencak silat, karate, dan berbagai aliran kungfu lainnya, juga sangat cocok bila memanfaatkan boneka kayu tersebut selama latihan. Mungkin selama ini anda belum begitu memahami manfaat dari latihan menggunakan wooden dummy. Nah, inilah beberapa fungsi yang bisa anda rasakan, kalau tepat dalam pemanfaatannya, dan rajin dalam melakukannya secara rutin.

mok yan jong, foto lama dan yang baru di perguruan kungfu jingwu di foshan

1. Melatih Kemampuan berkelahi dengan Refleks yang Semakin Tinggi

ketika anda menyerang yang anda butuhkan adalah kecepatan, tapi ketepatan lebih dibutuhkan ketika anda menangkis dan melakukan serangan balik, dan untuk mendapatkan kemampuat tersebut diperlukan kebiasaan melakukan tangkisan dan serangan yang benar dengan penerapan metode atau teknik beladiri yang tepat. Nah, salah satu fungsi dari latihan menggunakan wooden dummy adalah meningkatkan kemampuan tersebut. 

Mok Yan Jong / Wooden Dummy diciptakan dengan mengibaratkan lawan yang menyerang. Dua lengan atas ibarat serangan Atas (baik pukulan maupun tendangan), satu lengan tengah ibarat serangan arah tengah badan, dan satu kaki bawah Dummy ibarat gerakan kaki lawan. Standar latihan penggunaan Mok Yan Jong memicu Anda untuk melakukan tangkisan, pukulan, dan ringkusan. Dengan berlatih rutin dan tekun, maka kemampuatn Anda dalam menangkis, memukul atau menyerang, serta melakukan ringkusan, akan keluar secara reflek. dan ini sangat membantu pada sebuah pertarungan.

Grand master ip man
menggunakan mok yan jong palang 
yang ditempelkan pada dinding

2. Melatih Power, Kekuatan Tulang & Otot

Kenapa mok yan jong / Wooden Dummy ditancapkan di atas tanah, atau menenpel di dinding pada mok yan jong frame, karena posisi tersebut akan meningkatkan power, serta kekuatan tulang dan otot anda. Tangan dan kaki anda akan berbenturan dengan kayu, yang bisa jadi lebih kuat dari tubuh manusia. Oleh karena itu, dengan pola latihan yang teratur, akan membuat tubuh terbiasa dengan berbagai benturan tersebut. Gerakan-gerakan tangkisan, pukulan, maupun ringkusan yang berulang-ulang akan melatih otot-otot Anda, yang secara otomatis tulang dan otot akan berkembang semakin kuat. Kekuatan yang kamu miliki itu, tentunya sangat bermanfaat dalam pertarungan yang sebenarnya.

donnie yen, dalam film ip man yang pertama

3. Melatih intuisi dan Imajinasi dalam Membela Diri

Belajar beladiri berarti anda belajar seni, dan belajar seni berarti anda harus melatih intuisi atau perasaan anda, karena dalam perkelahian yang sebenarnya bukan pandangan mata yang bisa mengantisipasi serangang lawan, tetapi perasaan atau intuisi, kapan lawan menyerang dan kapan melakuan serangan balik, harus dilakukakan dengan ketajaman perasaan. 

berlatih dengan Mok Yan Jong, anda bisa berimajinasi membayangkan serangan apa yang akan muncul dari lawan ketika anda melakukan tangkisan tertentu. Kemudian Anda juga harus berimajinasi serangan balik  apa yang akan anda terapkan. Jika dilakukan berulang-ulang dalam bentuk latihan yang benar, maka reflek Anda akan terbentuk ketika anda menghadapi pertarungan yang sesungguhnya.

bruce lee menggunakan mok yan jong yang sudah dimodifikasi
untuk beladiri kreasinya Jeet Kune Do

Pada umumnya, penggunaan wodden dummy diajarkan pada tingkatan tertentu, setelah anda sudah menguasai berbagai teknik dasar beladiri yang benar. Nah, setelah itu anda bisa melatihnya dengan benar dan rutin. Dengan begitu, anda benar-benar bisa mendapatkan fungsi yang luar biasa dari penggunaan wooden dummy tersebut.

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Great Masters of the Past, HUO YUAN JIA

Huo Yuanjia (January 18, 1868 – August 9, 1910) was a Chinese martial artist and co-founder of the Chin Woo Athletic Association, a martial arts school in Shanghai. A practitioner of the martial art Mizongyi, Huo is considered a hero in China for defeating foreign fighters in highly publicized matches at a time when Chinese sovereignty was being eroded by colonization, foreign concessions, and spheres of influence. Due to his heroic status, legends and myths about events in his life are difficult to discern from facts.

Huo was born in Xiaonanhe Village in Jinghai County, Tianjin, as the fourth of Huo Endi's ten children. The family's main source of income was from agriculture, but Huo Endi also made a living by escorting merchant caravans to Manchuria and back. Although he was from a family of traditional wushu practitioners, Huo Yuanjia was born weak and susceptible to illness (he had asthma and at an early age he contracted jaundice, that would recur periodically for the rest of his life), so his father discouraged him from learning traditional Wushu.

Huo Endi hired a tutor named Chen Seng-ho (aka Chiang Ho) from Japan to teach his son academics and the values of humility and perseverance. In return, Chen was taught the Huo family's style of martial arts, Mizongyi. Against his father's wishes, Huo still wanted to learn Wushu. He secretly observed his father teaching students martial arts during the day and practiced them at night with his tutor.

In 1890, a martial artist from Henan visited the Huo family and had a fight with Huo's older brother. Huo's brother was defeated and to the surprise of the family, Huo fought against his brother's opponent and defeated him. Because Huo proved that he was physically able to practice wushu, his father accepted him as a disciple. In later years, Huo went on to challenge martial artists from neighboring lands and his fame grew as he defeated more and more opponents in bouts.

Huo joined his father at work as a caravan guard. One day, while escorting a group of monks, Huo was confronted by an aggressive bandit leader who threatened to attack the monks with his bandit followers. Huo fought against the bandit leader and defeated him. News of his feat spread and added on to his growing fame. In 1896, Huo went to Tianjin and made a living there by working as a porter in the Huaiqing pharmacy there and by selling firewood.

In 1901, Huo responded to a challenge advertised by a wrestler from Russia in Xiyuan Park, Tianjin. The wrestler openly called the Chinese "weak men of the East" as no one accepted his challenge to a fight. The Russian forfeited when Huo accepted his challenge. The Russian told Huo that he was merely putting on a performance in order to make a living and made an apology for his earlier remark in the newspaper.

Between 1909 and 1910, Huo traveled to Shanghai twice to accept an open challenge posed by a British boxer Hercules O'Brien. The two of them had arguments over the rules governing such boxing matches and eventually agreed that whoever knocked down his opponent would be the victor. O'Brien fought Huo and lost. Huo's victory was a great inspiration to the Chinese people and had them questioning the basis of imperialistic dominance. There is a lot of controversy denying that the fight ever took place however. Even recently an article stated the same, that O'Brien opted to leave town instead.

Between 1909 and 1910, Huo founded the Chin Woo Physical Training Center (later known as Chin Woo Athletic Association) with his close friend Nong Jinsun as president of the association. Huo was encouraged by close friends and sponsored by Sun Yat-sen and Song Jiaoren who were living in Tokyo, Japan. The center was meant to be a school for learning the art of self-defense, improvement of health and mind.

Huo Yuanjia suffered from jaundice and tuberculosis and started seeing a Japanese doctor for medication and treatment. The doctor, a member of the Japanese Judo Association based in Shanghai invited him to a competition upon hearing of his fame. Huo's student Liu Zhensheng competed with a judo practitioner. Although there were disputes over who won the match, both sides generally agreed that the disagreement culminated in a brawl and members of the judo team were injured, some with broken fingers and hands, including the head instructor.

Huo died on August 9, 1910, at 42 years of age. In 1989, the tomb of Huo and his wife was relocated. Black spots were discovered in the pelvic bones, and Tianjin Municipality Police Laboratory confirmed that they contained arsenic.[citation needed] Consequently, it is difficult to ascertain whether his death was caused by malicious poisoning or the prescription of medicine. This was because arsenic trioxide has been used therapeutically for approximately 2,400 years as a part of traditional Chinese medicine.

Historian Chen Gongzhe, who was also one of Huo's students, believed that the cause of his teacher's death was hemoptysis disease. Chen wrote that Huo was introduced to a Japanese doctor by the judo instructor as his health declined. The doctor prescribed some medicine for his condition, but Huo's health continued to deteriorate. Huo was admitted to Shanghai Red Cross Hospital, where he died two weeks later. Although Chen did not mention that the medicine prescribed by the Japanese doctor contained arsenic or any other poison, some leaders of the Chin Woo Athletic Association speculate that Huo was poisoned around the time of his death.

Huo died only months after helping to found the Chin Woo Athletic Association. Before his death, he invited Zhao Lianhe of Shaolin Mizong Style to teach in Chin Woo and Zhao agreed. Subsequently, a number of other martial arts masters agreed to teach at the school. They included Eagle Claw master Chen Zizheng, Seven Star Praying Mantis master Luo Guangyu, Xingyi master Geng Xiaguang, and Wu Chien Chuan, the founder of Wu style Taijiquan. In June 1910, the Eastern Times announced the establishment of the Chin Woo association in Huo's name. It was the first civil kungfu organization in China that was not associated with a particular school or style.

During the period of the Japanese sphere of influence, the Twenty-One Demands sent to the Chinese government resulted in two treaties with Japan on May 25, 1915. This prevented the Manchurian ruling class from exercising full control over the Han Chinese. With their new freedom, Huo's students purchased a new building as headquarters for the organisation and renamed it Chin Woo Athletic Association. Re-organization, publications of books and magazines, and new styles of martial arts other than what Huo taught, were accepted under the mantle of the new association. In 1918, Chin Woo opened a branch at Nathan Road in Hong Kong.

In July 1919, the Chin Woo Association sent five representatives to Southeast Asia to perform a missionary program to expand activities overseas. They were Chen Gongzhe, Li Huisheng, Luo Xiaoao, Chen Shizhao and Ye Shutian. They made their first stop in Saigon, Vietnam where they opened the first Chin Woo school outside of China. Later, they opened schools in Malaysia and Singapore as well. By 1923, these five masters had opened schools all over Southeast Asia and visited nine different countries.

In 1966, Shanghai's Chin Woo school was forced to discontinue its activities by the Communists due to the Cultural Revolution plan, whose goal was to destroy old ideas, culture, customs in order to modernize China. Those restrictions were later lifted in 1976 and activities were continued in Shanghai's Chin Woo.

Currently, Chin Woo is one of the largest wushu organizations in the world with branches in Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Poland, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and Switzerland.

Huo was survived by three sons and two daughters, and now has seven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.See more
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wing cun and yim wing cun

Yim Wing-chun is a historical character, often cited in Wing Chun legends as the first Wing Chun master
Wing-Chun, though a person's name in Chinese, literally means "spring chant" or alternatively "forever spring", or substituted with the character for "eternal springtime"

During the Ching Dynasty, the Shaolin Temple was a refuge for the loyalists of the prior Ming Dynasty who sought to “overthrow the Ching and restore the Ming”. The Shaolin Temple also took in lay-disciples and taught them the temple's martial art systems in a bid to aid the loyalists' cause.

Concerned by this, the Imperial Court dispatched agents to infiltrate the Shaolin Temple and learn its martial arts systems. When these agents attained mastery, they poisoned the monks and burnt down the Shaolin Temple. In the resulting carnage, only a handful escaped. The Abbess Ng Mui was one of 5 elders who escaped.

Ng Mui knew that the traitors of the Shaolin Temple had mastered its arts and that despite her own skill and mastery, she also knew that she would be no match for their youth, strength and speed. In order to counter these traitors, Ng Mui created a new martial art that would be effective against stronger opponents. To aid the rebel cause, she also designed it so that it could be learnt in a relatively short period of time.

Legend has it that Ng Mui's first disciple of this fighting system was a woman named Yim Wing Chun who used it to fight and defeat the local bully who tried to force Wing Chun to marry him. She eventually taught this fighting system to her husband Leung Bok Chau who named the art after her.

The system was eventually passed down to 2 performers belonging to the Red Boat opera troupe; Wong Wa Bo and Leung Yee Tai. These 2 masters had very different body shapes and temperaments. As such their manifestation of this art was very different. Their student, a skilled physician named Leung Jan benefited from this and became known as a skilled fighter in Foshan, Guangdong.

One of Leung Jan's top students was Chan Wah Soon who had many students. In his seventies, he taught a young man named Yip Man, who continued training with Chan Wah Soon until his passing.

Yip Man moved from to Hong Kong to study where he was involved in many fights with his European schoolmates. One day, he challenged an older man, reputed to be a skilled fighter, and was soundly defeated. This man was Leung Jan’s son, Leung Bik.

Yip Man continued his training with and learned the entire system from Leung Bik. Yip Man returned to Foshan but eventually went back to Hong Kong after the Second World War. In 1949, Yip Man started teaching Wing Chun to the public and taught many students until he passed on in 1972.

History continues to be created as Yip Man’s martial-art descendants and practitioners forming lineages from China make their mark in the Wing Chun community.