Teaching method
I look at it this way, my Wing Chun is mine......it's what I have taken from a large group of techniques and principles. I use what works for me and my strengths and weaknesses. I guess you could call it my shortcut version of the whole system (I know this sounds bad, but isn't meant as it may sound). I hope this make sense to all.
When I teach my students, I give them everything, the whole system as it was given to me, plus anything I have figured out along the way. Then it is up to them, to shortcut the system and make it their own. Again, I know the term 'shortcut' sounds bad and as if they are leaving some of the system out, but it isn't meant that way at all.
Hopefully in the end, the forms will be the same, the training will be the same...but their usage should or better be completely different based on their builds, strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise, they are just doing my Wing Chun and not their's.
I also explain, that it is human nature to shortcut things, if I show them my shortcut version of Wing Chun, then when they learn it they will try to shortcut it even more, and this will continue down the line of student's students. So, they must teach the long version as it is taught to them and then allow their students to explore what works for them.
John Widener
'Understand your limits, but never limit your understanding'.
" I may disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
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