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Originally Posted by Jujujason
Some of the fastest, most powerful athletes in the world are also the biggest and strongest. Football players and Olympic sprinters/hurdlers can run incredibly fast and are amazingly agile in spite of having huge, muscular legs. High/Long/Triple jumpers display a lot of explosive power in their events and all are avid weight lifters. Basketball players lift weights so that they can take off from the free throw line and slam dunk a basketball. Only traditional martial artists adhere to the philosophy that weight training somehow makes one slow.
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Absolutely so.
The earlier statement that said "Squats build different muscles than you need for wing chun" or whatever it said had me laughing.
What on earth? Wing Chun uses special "Wing Chun" muscles? Oh. Too bad. I only have "human muscles." You know, the kind that benefit from hard physical exercise - like squats!
You go on and use your "wing chun" muscles. I'll use my thicker, stronger muscles.
I guess that's where all the kata come in - they give a person "wing chun" muscles. I had
no idea.