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    Can you learn from videos ?

    Quote Originally Posted by KungFubar View Post
    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.
    KungFubar , you know you want to learn wing chun right ? So now you have to figure out who you want as your WC Sifu , and instead of buying DVDs that may waste your money , you have to do your own research as to see who you want to learn WC from ? Go on youtube and everythingwingchun.com . And either go to a WC seminar or organize a seminar in your area , or visit the WC school of the sifu of your choice .
    Goodluck in search for a WC Sifu . You can learn from DVDs you just need to know waht to look for in a DVD . I ' ve got Sifu Wong Shun Leungs' DVDs so as Sifu Gary Lam and David Peterson , and they ' re all good . Take Care .


    Lance

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlackEChan View Post
    You can definitely learn something from a video, but an actual teacher is always the best.
    "Knowledge is knowledge, it doesn't matter where it comes from, it matters how you use it."
    Don't you remember Dr Wu used to show videos as a reference so it is good to see how others teach and show stuff and it also serves as a reminder, in case one forgets.

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    Yes, you can learn a great deal from videos. As Wang Xiang Zhai's student Kenichi Sawai said once, you can even learn from a photograph. I would go much further - you can learn from statements, stories, movies, random ambient events, dance, watching other people and most of all, from thinking. You can learn a lot, as well, just from listening to hoaxers.

    The only real Quan is the Quan that unfolds from intuitive development. It is not possible for anything else to be the real Quan because it has to be a symbiosis with you, and your natural and trained skill. And that can be improved literally overnight just by having an "a ha!" moment. So intuitive unfolding is a key tutor.

    People with a lot invested in being a teacher or having what they like to call, bizarrely, "a lineage", always want to lie and say you can't learn from videos. You work out why. A video fo yourself is probably the most useful video of all - followed by a video of those guys who say you can't learn from a video, ha ha.

    Having said that, it is difficult to progress without a good coach, at least at first. And for top level, is there any top sports person who doesn't have a coach? Or, in fact, any who doesn't use videos as well??

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