In summary:
You guys arm chase. You try to manipulate the arms blocking your path in front of you by "striking" them. You arm chase and whether your dense mind can wrap around this concept or not. You arm chase!
My Opinion:
I've always tried to be open minded to other lineages and look at the big picture of what they're doing. I.e. positioning, distance, balance, etc within the WC context. You know, attributes. Every lineage has at least a few decent ones.
In contrary, however, despite my loathing of the PB crowds annoying robotic insistency, I still have not found the WSL/VT lineage impressive, really, in any way. To me, regardless of WC, they epitomize the training regimen of a desperate young zit faced kid trying desperately to be seen by the professionals in the gym. Being 'aggressive' in ALL of your drills does not mean anything to developing skill!
You guys don't understand timing for the life of you even though PB has decent timing, at least against you guys!
PB, in and of himself, is not impressive to me
WSL in action, in forms, and technique is not that impressive to me, although I do have respect for him.
Your rocking back and forth in poon sau is a joke and even further shows the ineptitude of timing with structure.
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While you guys go on pronouncing your arm chasing to the world, people "talk" about redirecting force because they're talking about chi sao. The development tool of WC. What you hard harded fellas don't seem to grasp is that what approaching it this way does, if correctly, is far more useful in developing attributes without contact, then you guys attacking arms!
Think about it numbskulls. If I always train to TRY to "redirect" as I attack, I will be in a much more balanced POSITION in a real fight even without contact. All legitimate fighting systems develop balancing to the opponent. Whether it's "side foward", "mirror facing", "footwork", etc. If you hit left, I hit right, you hit right, I hit left. You cross, I hit forward, I cross, you hit forward. Chi Sao is a DRILL!!!! If you want to develop your "one-armed" cr@p where you attack the opponents arms. By all means, but you're alone on that one, and don't be surprised when someone with actual skill knocks you out!
my two cents...