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Originally Posted by Tom Yum
Great analogy on skilled boxers vs most MA-ists. You pretty much have to be a serious master MA ist to fight off professional boxers at stand up.
Back to the topic, I think wingchun mixed with boxing would be like Lee's JKD.
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The Wing Chun would suffer from the mixing boxing (to a certain degree). there is no doubt the severity of punching and trapping would be notoriously powerful, but the principals would be conflicting. Also, wing chun's central premise is "less is more". The more you add on, the more clunky you get.
You are right on that point about Boxing vs. Wing Chun. At some point you have to be pretty damned skilled at WC to fend off a seasoned boxer. Few people train at wing chun the way boxers train to box. Train a wing chun fighter to fight the way a boxer trains rigorously, and I'd put my money on the WC fighter.
-SA