Wing Chun vs Fitness
Most people who do WC only do apart of it...meaning they only have shell of the WC....
Every fighting system needs more than air work and partner work...
Air Work
1.Forms
2.Punches in the air
3.Kicks
4.Weapon forms
5.Chi gung
Partner Work
1.San Shou Drills
2.Chi Sau drills
3.Free Sparring
4.Take Downs
5.Form Application
But you also need power and strenth building along with other stuff...
The Skill of person Fighting is not only in how accuracte and precise you can perform a technique. Nor is how superior your timing is to your opponent.
Having superior timing and accuracy and percision can definitely make your techniques work for you an win against opponent who is equal to you in strenght and power. But what about opponent who has more power than you.
for instance most WC people simply develop skill in techniques and principles but not so much in phyiscal conditioning outside of air work...
Now I will mention Practicing the weapons in the air can give you some conditioning and also doing the wooden man form and various drills can give you more power. But most WC schools Only practiced the Mook Yan Jong slowly with no power. One should practice the MYJ two ways.
1.With out power and force
2.With power and force
So you can see what the technique feels like in real fighting and practice with real intent and power as well as refine your techniques and develop correct alignment and posistioning by going slow. Same with the forms. They should be practiced fast and hard as well as slow and soft. But few people do this...
In addition to pole work and maybe hitting the wall bag and Wooden Man...You should do other stuff to develop your skill...
Such stretching to so you can become more agile and flexible.
Lifting weights, push ups, sit ups, pull ups, and other strength building exercises.
Hitting a heavy bag along with a wall bag.
Kicking a wooden post or wall.
Doing squats, leg lifts and other things to develop your legs.
Also work on stamina and endurance as well as speed.
If you have the greatest techniques in the world but your opponent is alot stronger than you and too fast for you defend against how will you be able to utilize your skill in percision and accuracy and perfect timing?
Someone who is stronger and more powerful usually can defeat a weaker opponent!
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"