Originally Posted by
kowloonboy
After reading on the thread "Why is there not a single WC fighter, anywhere". I see that we are not going anyway. As from my limited knowledge Wing Chun is not a fighting system for use in competition. It is a system for street/ self defense fighting. Anyway, I agreed with the concern of the OP of "Why is there not a single WC fighter, anywhere" So should we start training our Wing Chun students for Full Contact Competition? I know this is not what Kung Fu is supposed to be, it is for self development. But for the sake of proofing that Wing Chun can also be good for MMA, Full Contact competition, there are some students which does want to compete. So how should we develop, and adapt WC for competition without losing the core principle of Wing Chun?
I personally think that WC can be use for competition but there are a lot of work to do, since a lot of the techniques will be illegal in MMA and Full contact competition. How should we adapt to competition without losing the core principle of Wing Chun? Also I noticed that MMA glove will stop us from punching properly using WC punch due to the restriction of the movement allowed from the MMA glove.