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Originally Posted by kobra
If you only trained 1 year in Wing Chun how can you say that you know it enough to give such a scaving attack on its effectiveness? It is you who is naive.
Wing Chun is an effective close range style well suited to self defence situations. But you have to learn it before you can use it.
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honest WT/WC teachers teach basic concepts and let you train hard, so that you can defend yourself against the average thug in 5-6 months, providing you use intelligent scenario-training. An example? Hans-J. Reimers, whose organization (The Alliance) accepts cross-training and lets its members fight in NHB. Is it just a coincidence, BTW?
Those who tell you that you have to train for years before being able to fight are either morons or thieves. Those who tell you that you can't fight without being efficent at chi-sau are also stupids. An effective SD system can't rely upon refined attributes. It should allow you to use your gross motor skills in adrenaline-packed situations. Period.
If Bri Thai felt that after 1 year of serious training he couldn't fight against a 1 year trained thai boxer, it means that what they were teaching him was flawed.
Adavanced WC practitioner can surely get useful tools through chi-sau, wooden dummy etc. etc., but it's absurd to base one's SD skills on other than simple, straight no-nonsense concepts and techniques that have been trained realistically under adrenaline stress.