You tryin to make me look like a fool!?
I'm no expert. in fact I'm new to it. Haven't tried it out in sparring yet...
was looking for a better guard against bigger guys. Smaller or same kind of height people I can usually just whale in and get them with aggression, and that's what I usually do with bigger guys too (! ) but was having some trouble finding a safe guard with them if it didn't go my way in the first exchange.
Wing chun's guard is pretty useless. It's good enough for a fence in an SD situation, but as an active guard it has too many holes against guys with longer arms and any skill. The aiki guard is as close as you can get to having a limp wrist as a guard... and although I agree with the trad (as in hardcore, good...) aiki stance of having no stance (which again fits in with Geoff Thompson and whatever in SD and is nice in that it allows you good short-range energy issuance in your strikes with next to no telegraphing from any angle in a neutral position) again, it isn't so good if you need something after it's kicked off.
My MMA teacher was really good at teaching boxing (with it's big ass gloves, street-useless guard), Thai (I always sucked at the footwork which kind of negates the Thai guard a lot I think - and it isn't that great in the first place) and wrestling (which has a good guard for wrestling...) so that didn't really help me develop a good guard so much.
Looking forwards to trying this for real - feels nice and comfortable to use so far.