Originally Posted by
guy b.
Why is it that other southern chinese MA like SPM, Bak Mei, Lung Ying, CLF make great use of things like phoenix, ginger and leopard fists as force multipliers to increase damage inflicted, while wing chun tends not to? Many of these fist shapes are in biu ji, but it is not given a great deal of emphasis in my experience, whereas in these other MA from the same area these shapes are taught from the start and there is a lot of emphasis on doing real damage to the opponent like hitting eyes, throats, temple, sternum.
I have a bit of SPM experience and always wondered about this. What do you think is the reason? Or do I just not have the real wing chun? I know wing chun does have the seal air seal blood formula that these others use, usually with a chop to the neck, but it just doesn't seem to be as nasty for some reason.
Thoughts?