Originally Posted by
Graham H
Yip Man is not alive. Words can be minced as I have seen time and time again in Wing Chun. My own Sigung is long gone as well so I have trust my head coach to relay the message. What Yip Man did and said is in a lot of cases pure speculation and it annoys me when people try and hang of his legacy.
We all know there was a lot of cloak and dagger stuff going on. Yip Man said things to lead people up the garden path so why take an interview written by somebody else as gospel?
1000's of schools around the world claim to be teaching Yip Man Wing Chun and yet most differ from one to the next.
Better to take things with a pinch of salt.
Sure, Yip Man is no longer alive. And you can read the interview and choose not to accept what he was saying. Totally up to you.
But just because something he said in an interview doesn't tally with what you learn, it is a mistake (in my opinion) for you to dismiss it as wrong (or to simply say it might be YM leading someone up the garden path).
In this very thread you said how blind-folded CS was useless, but then you sought clarification and PB told you it had a purpose (in particular circumstances) in training.
I would also argue that what YM said in an interview is not really speculation. He said it.
If I told you a story of my teacher interpreting something he was told YM had allegedly said to someone, that would be speculation.
YM said many interesting things in that interview - there's not really much to speculate on.
No mocking, tongue-in-cheek signature here... move on.