Originally Posted by
Mortal1
Great post Kenton!
Thought provoking in my opinion. You really put things into perspective.
Thanks everyone for your kind words.
I think Krishnamurti said it best by telling us to really know ourselves. Know yourself and that includes your Wing Chun, because it is part of you. Nobody owns it, it's yours!
Know your abilities, your strengths, weaknesses, etc. But I think that with some strengths and weaknesses, you will never truly know yourself if you don't step out of your comfort zone.
Again, Krishnamurti said: the best way to know yourself is to study yourself in action with another person.
With regards to Wing Chun training, I think the argument wheel keeps turning because of the way we experience (or don't experience) things. And then the way we express ourselves.
I'm going to go back to what I posted earlier as a point I want to make about the "realists" vs. "traditionalists." Oh, labels are fun, aren't they? LOL
I was training in WC after a few other arts, blah, blah and was all caught up in how EASY it was to defend against this or that. Unfortunately, I never met up with anyone proficient in what ever my mouth was running about. Until I had some first-years start at my school who were very good at BJJ.
Needless to say, I got destroyed. So I guess, when you say that you will be okay because in your club: you simulate this, or that it's easy to defeat because your club does that, it's not an accurate simulation. I understand with Hendrik that sparring isn't real, etc. The only problem is that we need a way to put the skills we have together in the closest thing to going to the worst bar in town. I want to be able to drive home from sparring and so do most people. But the aliveness, the resisting opponent is key. You need someone to not let you do something you are trying to do.
So I guess what I'm saying is that you have to be honest with yourself and it's very hard to do so. Stupid ego.
Enough jibberish,
Kenton
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels