Thread: Martial Artists opinions.

Originally Posted by punkmonk

but online everything is speculation, theory, and academics. Makes it more difficult to teach priciples of technique, and whatnot.

Okay, I'll Humor you, what Theory and principle is it you're trying to teach us?
I'm very interested in the CMA's so since you teach them, please educate me.

Is your schools style defined as internal or external?

Really Wing Chun is both. Mainly Internal working with forward force and chi. But the strikes are powerful when trained and taught correctly. Some schools short cut the training techniqe, or rely on brute strength too much and this makes it ineffective.
Check out Grand Master Jim Fung's website: http://www.wingchun.com.au
for good info. He was one of my teachers teacher.

Originally Posted by punkmonk

Really Wing Chun is both. Mainly Internal working with forward force and chi. But the strikes are powerful when trained and taught correctly. Some schools short cut the training techniqe, or rely on brute strength too much and this makes it ineffective.
Check out Grand Master Jim Fung's website: http://www.wingchun.com.au
for good info. He was one of my teachers teacher.

Okay so you teach internal principles and theory since your art contains internal components, correct?

Whats the proper way to intercept a punch according to internal theories?

Sigh. That was before Sifu Emin created the WT ground fighting.
And as for the WC guy vs. Karate. I coudn't even reconize what he was doing as anything pertaining to any art. If he was WC he didn't use it. I can give you a like to a new video we've put on our website which shows our ground fighting if your even remotely interested.
I figure It'd be a waste of time, you've already closed your mind.
Those films are ancient. Like I've said before, WC/WT is still evolving, changing. It's only a couple of hundred years old, very young for a CMA.
Check out the Systema ground videos on yahoo videos too.
But this stuff you really have to experence and feel to get a full understanding.

As for intercepting a punch, it depends on the angle of the punch. They throw a hook punch Dai Sau, and straight punch tau sau or pac sau, a gut shot, chit sau. All to be met with forward pressure and redirection of your opponents force. The Jim Fung Website goes indepth on these principles. But, again, sensitivity, and reaction drilling are crutial. You can talk about it all day and learn nothing, you can watch videos and learn basic mechanics with no practicality, you can read books and still not get it. You have to feel it, train it, drill it, spar it, and experience it.

Have you seen the videos? I just came across them this week.

Thanks for your contribution of nothing to the conversation duder. Showing me your I.Q. again. lol

Keeps me from getting punched everytime. What exactly are you trying to figure out about "intercepting fist"?

Originally Posted by punkmonk

As for intercepting a punch, it depends on the angle of the punch. They throw a hook punch Dai Sau, and straight punch tau sau or pac sau, a gut shot, chit sau. All to be met with forward pressure and redirection of your opponents force. The Jim Fung Website goes indepth on these principles. But, again, sensitivity, and reaction drilling are crutial. You can talk about it all day and learn nothing, you can watch videos and learn basic mechanics with no practicality, you can read books and still not get it. You have to feel it, train it, drill it, spar it, and experience it.

So you use external power to redirect the strikes then?