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Originally Posted by bodhisattva
Why not, instead, train a martial art that will make you very proficient within a year? Why train one that promises proficiency in ten years and even that is in question - as they never really prove their proficiency in contest, or competition? Why train an art like that? It promises "spiritual growth" but if it is a martial art that doesn't even teach you to fight well until you have studied for a decade, perhaps it doesn't have much to offer in the area of spiritual growth, either?
Just some thoughts.
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Again, Bod, you are generalizing wing chun and shaolin arts under one flag.
I could show you some very poor grappling schools that have no clue about streetfighting and state that all grappling is rubbish.
But as most SENSIBLE people know, you can't judge an art by 1 club!
I have been to numerous wing chun schools and yeah there have been a few that fought by slapping hands away etc
Yet there are a few good schools around that emphasise techniques that work and make students aware that horse stances are not fighting stances but training stances, designed to help build up leg power