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after 7 years of karate i couldn't fight at all, then after 1 year of wing chun i had an awareness of personal space and was able to guard me space and i felt confident enough to use the pak sau. i...

i agree with this. Round and round we go with something to agree on now ;)

i couldn't disagree more. i just made a long post to continue the argument and this website lost it in some problem so i wont repeat it all. basically though, you can't replicate the awareness of the...

well that was a reasonably agreeable post. there is the need to feel what the fight is like in a bit of pressuring sparring... so long as the sporty style doesn't rub off in a real fight.

i think there's a movie clip here of one of my teachers' teachers:

http://wingchun.awardspace.com/videomovieclips.htm

tell me that this is "hard" wing chun and i will try to take you seriously...

Well I won't be worried about getting attacked by you then if you're opponents are still happily sparring after u've given them you're 80 - 90% :rolleyes:

My 100% is a finger in the eye - sparring...

Taoist quote:

Measure and pound it: it will not long survive.

at the end of the day i dont wanna get hurt in training .... i'm pretty good at avoiding fights in real life so chances are i'll never need to fight... but training whilst not getting badly hurt is...

yep, if you get all the quiet b/s then it's just as bad as the louder version...

the best teachers are the ones who don't like it when students such up to them because it's foolish on the part of...

if you're true to yourself then you will move on when you feel like it, rather than sticking at it just because some1 tells you to in a loud voice :)

I would say there's no martial art more practical for empty handed combat than wing chun.

By the way, I just noticed:

Phil Redmond; SEMPER FIDELIS; Join Date: Jan 1970
now that's what I call a...

im in brum myself. i highly recommend wing chun kung fu with shaun rawcliffe (www.wingchun.co.uk). he used to be a body guard for jackie chan :cool:

what do you think about the kung fu that...

yep - 5th dan black belt is definitely japanese :eek:

beware

having some knowledge creates fear

empty your mind properly, be passive and yielding, and natural.

well i think that magazines and celebrities usually label who they believe to be a master or not, and they usually don't deny the famous experts their label for fear of losing credibility.

who is...

good luck with your tai chi. maybe try to relax a bit more?

:p that certainly is an entertainment

i try to practice taoism myself, in fact, i've got an article called the tao and te of wing chun on my little website...


i really don't think i'm...

Everything is in some way soft and in some way hard...etc

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