Hi hobbs.. Ive see vids from your school. Good stuff . You guys have structure, but my point about structure is it cant be seen but can be felt. Some people think stucture is the way you hold a tan sao a certain way, but its not. Structure can look like anything. Because its noy in the way iy looks.
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There is no REAL secrets in Wing Chun, but because the forms are conceptual you have to know how to decipher the information..That's the secret..
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kev for gods sake!
here you go some proper ving tsun
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jim
Bruce lee playing table tennis, got to check this out. This was filmed before special effects & is the real deal so they say
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You guys do make me laugh
You do know and understand that Wing Chun as a system in itself actually existed BEFORE IP Man don't you??
I know he had a great impact on how us westerners train, but I have an appreciation for most things pre-1970's too and the Vietnam/Malayasian/Singapore schools all have this flavour... different but never wrong IMHO
Ti Fei
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Well for example if im doing some kind of hand drill lets say chi sau my hands are always trying to control my partners centre and look for openings to attack all the time. Some of the examples above are just rolling round and mixing soup! Now before you jump on me I know chi sau is not fighting but it is the bridge between forms and fighting and to gain sensitivity in a practical way rather than creating rounded movements when linear ones are far more efficient.
Jim.
So is this comment suggesting that you haven't had any experience of Vietnam-type Wing Chun, and so you have not been taught why the 'exercises' they are practising ARE of practical use??
Or are you simply dismissing it for the 'look' rather than the 'feel'??
Now I appreciate the evolutions Ip Man made to a pretty 'old fashioned' system but to be so dismissive with no practical experience of what you are looking at makes no sense to me... but no biggie, you sound like you train hard and train well for what you want so respects to ya
Ti Fei
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