Thing is I have been in Wing Chun for many years now and really I have a year or 2 before I can grade for instructor level. Each Sifu does things a bit differently even with gradings things are sometimes done differently depending on who is grading you. I have made it a point to only be graded by my Sifu's Jerry and Ronda Bolding. My teachers don't always talk about what a movement is called over the last year I have been learning more of these techniques by name. I have seen various conversations online where someone uses a term and feel a bit embarrassed that I have no clue what they are talking about yet then I see the movement and know exactly what it is and how it is used. Because of the situation I am in I don't get much time with my Sifu anymore. We lost our school due to lack of students and he and his wife are busy and tired of doing so much. They would like one of their students to take over but no one really has. My friend and I are levels 8 and 9 we took on responsibility to keep this going. Depending on how familiar you are with our grading structure I will say 10 is the beginning of instructor level. We started teaching with no support from anyone then after some time trying to talk to others from the old school we got things rolling again. I would like very much to learn all I can from Master Jerry and to teach everything I learn to others but it's sort of stupid in my view to teach only bits of a system. Eventually over time things get lost and then it's no longer what it should be. This bothers me I would like to understand more about the terms and such to pass it on as well not just the movements.
At the end of classes we sometimes line everyone up hold out our arm using a technique and ask everyone what is this and what does the name mean. Unlike many I train with I am the only one who gets online and looks at Wing Chun as a whole and questions why we do things as we do. I do train with some that refer to our system as Traditional that William Cheung trained as a live in student with Ip Man and learned the true system as taught to him by Leung Bik. However I don't blindly follow. I question even Ip Man but the man is dead so I am left looking at other branches not so connected to Ip Man. Around here there are no other Wing Chun schools I can't even find another Chinese art here. I think Cheung's system works better than many I have seen but I will never say it's the true art above any other Wing Chun system. I do argue with people over how they practice Wing Chun because I see some major issues with some things people do because it looks bad from my experience actually fighting. Just for example shifting without picking up your feet. I see many do this but we don't and just like my father my Sifu scolded me for not picking up my feet as I shifted and moved. Depending on a surface it can hider movement. Another example is how many Wing Chun people lean back. It seems to me they are off balance and putting to much weight on one leg. To me this makes it hard to move quickly and effectively.