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Originally Posted by freefighter2010
First of all i am delighted to join this amazing forum where people from different backgrounds and share thier experiences and become better people as a result.
I have read several threads on Wing chun and i am sorry to say that I studied wing chun for a year.I was told about wing chun by a former ji-jutsu guy who claimed that he had a fight with his wing chun instructor and his instructor beat him in a fight he was so impressed that he decided to do WC.
The JJ guy got me to enrol in WC classes at the time i was impressed by all the moves bongsa, pakso and it was like a new world to me. Until the day i ended in a fight and had the crap beaten into me by some drunken.
I have since left WC and moved onto study other systems. I am sorry but wing chun is developed for small chinese people who fought 1000s of years ago and not for the 21st century. So please be aware of why u are studing for a particular system. My instructor made me spend hours standing in one position just to do chain punching this was useless to me in a real fight as the stances was not stable.
Do disrespect to WC instructors..
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Could I ask who your instructor was?
I have seen this in many schools and wing chun as a stand alone system is not good enough
There are situations that arise where your wing chun will be the best thing to use and other times where it won't be. If you train boxing all your life and are suddenly faced witha larger or quicker opponent, you might do okay but chances are you won't
Too many chunners believe that one art alone will save them. It won't. Neither will BJJ on its own or boxing or any other style. It is important to at least understand different methods of fighting
Wing chun schools do differ greatly (ie I get tired of people putting wing chun into one box). Kamon is an aggressive full contact federation designed to train fighting. There are a couple of other schools that train like this but a lot of them focus too much on forms or drilling in chain punches
If you look at people like Alan Orr, Kevin Chan, James Sinclair etc, they show very clearly that wing chun is an extremely useful system to have under your belt....