Quote:
Originally posted by begins
For the past 3 months i have been looking for a art to study and recently decided upon Wing Chun Kung Fu for a few reasons. Yesterday I found a teacher who has classes about 40 mins away form me and through this week im going to be making my final decision in joining.
One of the main reasons i joined this site was for ( what for the rhyme...) insite. so does anyone here have suggestions if this art is good... think of it as a wedding cerimonie.. when the priest say " any last words??" type fo thing.
any info on if u study it or comments at all, please feel free
thanks
love n'peace
|
This guy is asking for comments, so don't complain when he gets them. Yes, I have studied Wing Chun. I spent a year on it, and came to the conclusion that it was NOT worth the effort. Sometimes (often) martial artists take their brains out when considering the effectiveness of their arts. Sometimes they reckon that the longer it takes to become a good fighter in an art, the better the art is. Well, it isn't. The shorter time = the better art.
3 forms. And what a load of nonsense. Just because the three forms contains the syllabus, that doesn't mean that standing knock-kneed, jabbing at thin air, helps you fight better. It doesn't, and is a waste of valuable training time.
It makes me laugh when numerous arts now claim to have "groundwork" in their syllabus. They didn't before the Gracies kicked everyones butt, and now they're just trying to cash in. Pathetic. "Maintaining their base"? Whats that supposed to mean? You maintain your base when a BJJ guy takes you to the floor. Easier said than done.
"sure you can round kick a leg off or knee a head off but in wc you stomp the knee,block the punch with a throat strike and cave in the side of the rib cage with a palm strike all in the one move at the same time and it has hundreds of combinations of simultanious triple strikes..if you can think of some other style that can offer that id love to hear it..."
I'd love to see any style that can do this. Wing Chum certainly does NOT. People say that WC is "structurally fast", meaning that the economical motion in the style makes for fast movement. And I agree, it is. But, by the same token, it is structurally weak.
Every block is a strike? So Bon Sau is gonna hurt is it? Methinks you don't even understand your own art. One of the good things about WC is the ability to deflect energy, not meet it head on. That is supposedly how a smaller person can overcome a bigger one.
1 and 3 inch punch? Bullshit. They are pushes. Always have been, even when the Great One pushed some guy over a chair all those years ago. Ever seen one used in an NHB fight? No. And whys that? Is it because they take too long to master? Is it because those philistine NHB types are not capable of understanding such a move? Or is it because they are less than useless in a real go.
Wing Chun has all kinds of theories about how great it is. But it never seems to come up with anything in practice, beyond unverified yarns about street fights in Hong Kong.
Puh-Lease.