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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.

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

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 👊

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

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

Some people take 5 minutes to explain why their moves will work... and this guy instead decided to kill you 792 times in 14 minutes.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I love Erik. He doesn’t give you a full speech about a martial arts history, which I love hearing but at times I wanna see more than just talk. Eric is that man. He just jumps in and starts giving you what you want and has fun doing it.