A lot of WC videos and courses out there are they any good, if you have a practice partner can you learn from videos?
A lot of WC videos and courses out there are they any good, if you have a practice partner can you learn from videos?
addendum: there's a reason why learning from video is generally taboo and frowned upon in this community.
It's one thing to buy a tape and learn for the fun of it. It's another to buy it and think that you're really learning the art. It just doesn't work like that.
if you cant find a good teacher can you start with dvds and then when you find one then he can fix you and make the adjustments? Like you said you must be very lucky to find a good teacher. If not a good teacher then its wasting a lot of time and money. Im leaning to wing chun now. Id love to find a wing chun group close by. Maybe I can get started with a dvd while Im trying to get lucky.
You can learn from a DVD.
How much, How well all depends on you AND the person on the DVD.
I've seen DVD's that the info being put out was info that took me years to realize WITH a teacher.
Some instructors are just that good.
That is NOT always the case.
I will say this:
If you are learning from a DVD then partner work is even MORE crucial.
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He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
ok thanks everyone. One reason I like wing chun is they say it is the most popular a lot of people doing it. Im sure there are some really good WC people in my town somewhere, finding them and inviting me to their group is another matter. If its so popular there should be a lot of people pretty much everywhere doing it. Its not like Im looking for some exotic kf style which actually exists near me but Im not that interested in investing my soul into something of unknown efficacy. Also I dont know if they would even let me in.
Last edited by KungFubar; 06-06-2013 at 10:59 AM.
There are at least two good schools near you.
But for anyone else.............. eh.............. I kinda want to say no. I taught a friend of mine a form he was doing for an open-forms competition for a Kempo school he was attending. I figured I would teach him the form first and then worry about fixing it later. Bad move. It was a nightmare trying to correct all the bad habbits and mistakes he got acustomed to. I learned my lesson: always make sure it's right the first time.
In theory, it will work. But in actual practice, it won't. Think about it. If you're both making the same mistake, you'll do the drills and there will be no one to correct you. And since you're both doing it, it will fell right. Things like leaning back, crossing your centerline, or having your elbows out. You may think you're doing it right. But a sifu will spot things that you can't. Without someone senior to you to pressure test you, you may make the same mistake for months. Then when you finally realize it, you'll have to undo all that incorrect training. Videos can be useful if you're already training under a good sifu. You can learn some tips from them or use them as a reference. I've bought dvds where I've learned drills from them and they've been very helpful. But you simply can't learn just from videos. You need a sifu.
You can definitely learn something from a video, but an actual teacher is always the best.
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wing chun videos usually aren't high enough quality to learn from because they aren't intended as teaching aids or they were not very well made.
There are certainly MA dvds you can lean a lot from, for example some grappling stuff. It depends on how the video was made really