Sihing,
I've been reading over our conversation and I have some other questions.
When Master Lewadny was with his previous school, sil lum pai, how many of his students from that time period followed with him to present? It was before your time and it says that he taught the "hard" wc, so I'm wondering if his students from that school transfered over to the association in 88' to the "soft" system, when you were there? You had said that Master Lewadny had been promoted to head master of the association in N.A., but declined, so why does it say that he has this postion in his profile, is it just a typo? In your last post you were talking about techniques, how you would side step rather than stepping in. I'm not sure how you determine "hard" in a technique, if it's easier then is it "hard", while doing more stepping is refered to as "soft"? When you bring the elbow out in the SLT, does this action not expose your ribs for attacks?
In regards to the BJJ/GJJ, "since the BJJ,GJJ explosion people have been curious how WC would deal with them, so we have those techniques taught now too."
does this mean that your system just show stuff as 'whatever system to watch out for' dictates? Would you add stick fighting/trapping into your system as arnis or escrima does, since they are very skilled with those weapons. You also said, "then he explained how some masters from the past tried to seperate themselves by developing new techniques or concentrating only on certain techniques and ignoring others" isn't this what he has somewhat done by devoloping new techniques in his evolution of wc, while ignoring other techniques. Because what he teaches now isn't what he learned from his sifu's right? It's a blend of both of them, so everything from both the "hard" and "soft" are combined in what he teaches now.
"If I were to learn hard style WC I probably wouldn't have many questions for my Sifu, as I already have enough experience in WC to figure it out myself" I'm sorry, I was implying that you first learned "hard" wc from someone else and then came to the association, I think that you would have questions as to why they do the things they do.
"As for chi-sao and close range vision, what happens when in a fight and while in trapping range the opponent pulls both arms back"
According to your "water in a dam" analogy wouldn't the force would just rush though your opponent?
I do agree with you that each person who learns WC changes it for himself and applies it their own special way, but I think the way a person learns it though should be the way the instructor learned it. In your system all students do things the way Master Lewadny does it, but he doesn't teach it the way he learned it from Master Wong or Master Cheung. Do you think it would be right if you were to take what you have learned from Master Lewadny and added some other system and then teach things different from Master Lewadny? The tradition of passing on the Wc skill has changed from each practitioner, if things were to progress this way it would become something like Jeet Kune Do. Does your school allow full contact sparring at a certain time in a persons training?
That's it for now, Thanks
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