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Originally Posted by Red Rum
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
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If horse stances aren't fighting stances, I'm going to spend exactly
zero minutes in one.
There are so many better ways to build up leg power that I won't even bother writing them all - cause most all of them are
better than standing in some horse stance, throwing punches form the hip and shouting a Kiai on every punch. but if you want real leg power, I'd suggest you work some Squats and some Deadlifts - after first having a qualified individual teach you to do them correctly.
I'm not judging an art by 1 club. As most SENSIBLE people know, you shouldn't assume things about people you don't know - as you are doing with me. I gave more time (and lost $$$ to a fraudulent "self defense" system) than I care to mention to various traditional martial arts schools. They are crap. I am sorry if that upsets people, but I am only speaking the truth. If you enjoy doing kata and eagle claws and dragon beaks and crane weiner strikes, then COOL.
Just don't tell people it's "self defense" or "martial art" because it is neither, and you'll be a lying, stealing fraud. And you'll get people hurt.
I have never seen a grappling school that sucked - truly. I'm sure one exists, but really, grappling is of a nature that you are working against LIVE OPPONENTS every day you train. And people simply don't suck when they train against LIVE OPPONENTS that totaly resist them, every day they train.
That is the nature of live training - training in alive environments.
I would put any Freshman wrestler, even the 110 pounder, up against any 150 pound "shaolin guy." any day.