3 year Wing Chun student beaten by man who knows nothing!!!

[JiuKaiMan]

How do I know?
It was me......seven years ago!
Unfortunatly I was learning Wing Chun from people who didn't know much about real fights or how to apply Wing Chun to a real fight.
That is the importance of keeping a reality base in your training!
Teach your students the quadrant drill, but be sure and tell them that is not how you would actualy use the parry's in a real fight.
Show them practical applications, and most important of all.......train full contact and include sparring in the regiment!

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[mun hung]

Happens all the time. People train for awhile without any kind of sparring or heavy contact, think they can fight...and get beat up. Like my SiFu always says "I'd rather see you get beat up in the class than out in the street".

Let me tell you - when you have a bunch of guys throwing hard punches and kicks at you all night long - a punch or two out on the street is a breeze.

Practice fighting, because that's what it is.

[Super-Fist]

Amen to that mun hung. (LOL)

[mysteri]

u fight like u train! it's not always the instructor though. some people jus train half-@$$ and get the **** knocked out of them on the street. then these smae guys turn around and want to wonder why their x amount of years in (their martial art) failed them? what audacity! "fear not the man who trains 1,000 techniques; fear the man who trains 1 technique a thousand times!"

In a fight you should never stick to principles; they should stick to you!

[JiuKaiMan]

In my case, I was being taught by guys who knew the Wing Chun and were talented....but they had never been in a real fight or used their Wing Chun in a real fight....guys with no street experience.
So when the taught me to do the quadrant drill, I stood in one place and pivoted and parried the incoming strikes.
Now, when I got in a real fight, I tried that and was eaten alive by wild haymakers I couldn't parry.

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[Sec]

I think what you have to remember is that, it's all well knowing the moves, but if you don't understand how to use them, then you might as well be learning dancing. If you know what I'm saying ;)

- There are two ways to fail during your life. The first is to fail "invisibly" by leaving on the guilt of a wasted life the second is to fail "visibly" by not obtaining materials and wealth. -

[martialdoulos]

Yes, I know what you mean. I have a good friend that is a wing chun man, and his teachers saw to it that he DID train realistically, and that makes a difference. He was sturdy in a fight. Whereas, I have also been a thrasher of wing chun men -- the "B" type -- that did not have any good training. I can tell you that the difference is night and day. Full contact training leaves no one deceiving themselves.

[old jong]

Bezoomny?... :D