Try to never mirror your opponent’s stance.
Try to never mirror your opponent’s stance (he’s in a right forward stance and you’re in a left forward stance, or the other way around), its just way to much movement while defending; you will have to do really deep pivoting in order to keep one on your outside… If you’re right-handed, fight right-handed, if your left-handed fight left–handed… But in most wing chun systems they fight dominate hand up front, so adjust accordantly…
Just as I was taught to fight left-handed, but I’m really right handed and can fight both ways very well… I can write with my left and right hand, I guess I was just born that way… I teach all of my left-handed boxers too fight by pivoting deep off the front leg, that keeps one from going to your outside (a common practice for left-handed boxers and for right-handed boxers that are fighting a lefthander)… Here’s some footage on what I’m trying too say…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feLvs4-q6tE
It’s just my opinion and some well-known facts within the fighting game, nothing more…
Ali.
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"Wing Chun is a “Mind Set”, which gives tangible meaning to "little ideal". If the mind set is weak then the ideal does not exist".
I love this guy, great post
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JPinAZ
Interesting post Ali!
(PS, great post, hopefully you do not look at my disagreement as anything more than my POV from my experiences - I respect your bringing this up as well as posting a video to support your views. I look forward to the dialog and your responses - maybe we can have a good WC discussion here for once!!)
I total agree with what you are saying, but you have too understand one with the most direct and subtle movements always take the line first, especially when this is in mind; “attacking the attack”… As one can see from the clip when defending from a mirrored stance the power shot is way over worked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feLvs4-q6tE
By the way great post…
Take care,
Ali Rahim.