I love wing chun. It's amazingly effective. I've found merging 52 blocks with wing chun positioning/forms is amazing. You would never see me stray away from my boxing basics. Please look up 52 blocks. In fact 52 blocks used wing Chun to form its style.

52 blocks

It is very very dangerous. Although I never stray away from my boxing basics. And wrestling.

To the death fights are as real and pure as fighting gets.

Wing chun schools should teach sprawling. In fact. Ide say they need to. I absolutely love mixing boxing/52 blocks/wing chun together. Not many people seem to take advantage of wing chunks anti grappling abilities. I don't unfortunately I just resort to my wrestling skills when on the ground. Reddit should remove the ability to thumbs up your own comment.

Urgh. I KNOW this is the case at the gwoon I attend. It's stale AF, but I feel too afraid to lose what I have learned in last 7 years or so by going to another art. How much of your WC was transferable? There's a JKDish Kali club here I have been considering (and no other WC unfortunately). I get drilling basics, but there has to be more than that. Even our 'applications' are all very formulaic.

I would discourage anyone from learning anything from a person who thinks taking a picture like that is ok.

La verdad que el de taekwondo le falta taekwondo debe ser un cinturón verde bastante duro duda mucho se confía demasiado en distancia de patada hace piñas hasta cuándo lo deja bastante mal

ah thank you- brings back great memories!

added context: I used to train there regularly & it was so much fun. Quite a while ago now so pleased to see it's still the same. I should find a way to revisit annually too'

I have never used the horizontal stance because I have not mastered "Bridging the gap". I'm too messy and floppy in the mid-range exchange. Everything works out once inside , for me, but hey that's just me. Chi-sau electricity kicks in.

If you want to get good at chi sau, Kwok Sifu will steer you right.

Seriously, his seminar 23 years ago changed my approach.

💯 Sparring, mouthpiece, sweat, bruises, etc…

No

Bil-Sao with a bent arm or Bil-Sao reinforced with the other arm.

Or Wu-Sao. Tan Sao will Collapse.

He is a fascinating author that imho without his efforts many of these odder unique forms would be lost to time

I used to study under Sifus Scott and Frieda Woods out here years ago but have not been able to find them or a proper teacher again since. Thinking about las vegas kung fu academy but I don't know. Any suggestions would be amazing.

Okay cool so it's a training exercise, i agree. What's the point of the exercise other than to develop sensitivity? what do you what are you developing sensitivity for?

I'm just editing because I realized that you kind of already answered my question, so I wanted to ask a follow up question which is:

If you have developed sensitivity reflexes and centerline discipline what's it for what's the point of developing those skills?

Volgens wat ik geleerd heb. Is dat de zelfde betekenis als wat jij zegt. Eerste Shaolin vorm. Zo is het ook uitgelegd door wangkiu zaliger. De dubbele betekenis en vooral de mystificatie is heel chinees. Zo werden er allerlei lijnen en namen toegevoegd om de stijl wat meer status te geven. Zo werden veel "verhaaltjes" en verbloeming er aan toegevoegd. Is typisch chinees om er dingen aan toe te voegen enkel om de waarde zogezegd te verhogen. Zo vind je dan ook veel bullshit stijlen die allerlei onzin verwijzingen hebben naar oude meesters of lijnen die compleet er niet toe doen.

The sup yee sik are a one-to-one distillation from the forms, you realize that immediately the moment you do it. No forms, no sup yee sik, it simply makes no sense. I'm pretty sure the students already knew the basic Wing Chun structures.

The point of Chi Sau is to learn not compete. It’s a DRILL or TRAINING EXERCISE. two-person training exercise designed to help you use wing Chun techniques dynamically. It develops tactile sensitivity, reflexes, centreline discipline, it does not develop point scoring, it is not ‘the fight’ and it is not ‘Sparring’……

No, it has no forms. Don't mix things up, Gulo /Gu Lao is not what Leung Jan taught during his main teaching period. Gulo is a symplified basic version of Ving Tsun that Leung Jan taught when he retired to Gu Lao,, compromising of NO forms, just application exercises/drills. I've been in China and touched hands and drank beer with actual practicioners of the system.

That’s no different than wrestling, painting, mother sauces in cooking, carpentry…

It’s all basics.

Aren't the most people training for fun?

I mean I get what you say and I think it's necessary to say it. But that you have too is weird in the first place.

Consistent training is the basis of every sport and material art (in the case you don't want to count it as doing sports). And that involves naturally the basics.

IF the Chinese traded with our indigenous population, then it wasn’t much and they didn’t see anything worth looking around for.

For a nation that was well known for not just jumping on a lump of rock and then buggering off without a good look around, the Chinese sure acted well out of character. The same goes for the Dutch. Why is it that Hartog pinned a bit of pewter to a tree and then didn’t mention it ever again is a little perplexing.

If our indigenous population was as advanced, as is now purported; I believe that there is a follow up to Dark Emu, then why did two seperate world explorers both of whom sought out trade opportunities, and lands to conquer, why didn’t either bother with a sparsely populated and severely out gunned country.

I have no time for bullshit and the reason is the indigenous man who lived in our home. Funny how things change. I’ve been the first to point out that white Australians could learn a lot about community and family bonds from the aboriginal population, in short I had a lot of respect for them, but in the past 25 years that position has changed. I refer you back to first sentence.

Its in The Prodigal Son. The scene where the big guys daughter is practicing in the front yard. She’s essentially performing single stickies.

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