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Thanks for posting it. I don't ahve any comments since I'm just trying to take it all in and am a beginner to boot. But it's like getting a private lesson for free. Keep it coming :)

Isn't the paradox that it takes ground skills to avoid going to the ground?(and especially if you do go down and want to get up QUICK)?

BTW I don't think it's faked. If it is the girl is a very...

I like how one guy's pants started falling off.

That video made me very happy. That looked like the start of a mugging, and they got punished in perfect proportion to what they did.

I doubt I...

Where did you see this? I wonder because where I train they tell us to never lock out the elbow. When punching in the air we always stop short of extending the arm fully. They say the elbow risks...

wcisformen,

I'm your "younger brother" in WC having not quite trained a whole year. So all I can describe is my similar experience and how I am trying to approach it. I put out these thoughts...

I really like the way you're thinking here. Lot's of interesting and informative ideas have come out of this thread, thanks.

At the same time, I don't see why this anti-horseman theory has to rule...

Thanks for the full answer. It makes a lot of sense:). I was just wondering right now and don't have Sifu handy. I'll ask someone at the club the same question and compare, it could be interesting.

Very enlightening thread, thanks to y'all. :)

I've got a really stupid bong sao question, about the low bong sao (like if you do a double block with tan and low bong.) Does the low bong ideally...

This may seem boring but I like to just multiply two two-digit numbers in my head a few times a day. Like type 37x76 into the calculator and then figure it out before hitting = to check. Maybe it's...

Actually yeah. Lot of people at boxing clubs who are mostly in it for the workout and friendly/fun sparring.

Back to the original question, I'm a civilian. As much as possible I leave the fighting...

Nice article, thanks. I might try building one next summer.

Well yeah, this is precisely the issue that my school is about, developing a constructive relationship between sport fighting and self defense fighting. It's this interaction that is the focus of...

About sanshou and open hand techniques, here's how I kind of see it and I wonder if people think it makes sense.

Where I train we learn open hand techniques, practice knees and elbows and all...

LOL as in coffee all over monitor funny:D

He sounds like a weird kind of hippy though. I mean I'm not a big fan of hippies but the ones I remember meeting really did have that mellow thing going...

If I've understood right, then one of the kicks we train would be an example of what you're describing. It's a straight forward kick to the stomach, and the important thing is that you don't swing...

I've got a question about that. Because of the anatomy of our arms and legs it seems to me that sometimes a straight line is curved. Like an orbiting satellite, or hitting a tetherball. It goes as...

If I ever found myself in that situation I would consider myself a total failure in life, lay down the knife, hug the man and face my doom with the last drop of self respect I possess.

I would think that would depend on the range of the encounter. From 200 meters out, on flat, open ground I'd rather go against (read run away from) the shotgun. From 5 meters out I'd rather go...

Wing Chun. Why?

Like what I think a few others here have described, I was taught that the main point of practicing chain punching – apart from just developing a beginner's speed, arm/shoulder strength and...

Emergency room doctors in another European capitol, (PM me if you want more details of where) who have said that the level of brutality in assaults has been steadily increasing. This includes bladed...

Thanks for all the advice everyone. It makes sense and I'm taking all of it on board.:)

BoulderDawg, thanks for the tips. I really appreciate feedback. The nosebleed was from a hit. It wasn't especially hard, but I got really smacked there (an accident) a few weeks back, so it's...

Just wondering if this is normal... we've finally started some lighter sparring and a few days ago I did my first pass where we increased the tempo some. It was fun as hell but I got hit a lot more...

Even if there is such a Wing Chun why is that more "pure"? It was just as much of an innovation at some point when someone took away a bunch of kicks as it would be to reinclude some later.