Originally Posted by
Hardwork108
If you know that the elbow strikes work, then why doesn't your system train it as a part of its regular Wing Chun arsenal?
Why do people keep simplifying Wing Chun, further and further? How long before we have "lineages" that only teach people to chase each other in the kwoon, with chain punches?
IMHO, despite popular belief Wing Chun is not a "simple" art. It is a d@mn complicated one, but when mastered, then its simplicity comes out. So, people who further "simplify" the art by cutting bits and pieces out, are not keeping up with the art's essence. Instead they are going against this.
Wing Chun in its original form is a very rich art and covers all ranges of fighting and provides its practitioners with the necessary arsenal (hand, elbow, feet and knee strikes, as well as Chin.na techniques) to be used in these ranges, using its PRINCIPLES and CONCEPTS.
People who are trimming this art in order to achieve some imagined level effectiveness or to standardize it for easier teaching purposes are not only doing dis-service to their Wing Chun students, but also are disrespecting the style's ancestors!