What is wing chun? training and application look different.
You fight the way you train. Why waste time with training that has nothing to do with how you will fight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOeFy36W8pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_MJyOd2SE
Good clips!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpcM2Rywv0
Now without a tag line identifying it, I doubt anyone would recognize this video as Wing Chun.
We train skills then we punch and kick people. The skill of when, why and how is in the training. The training is not fighting.
This is true. But if when you are fighting you are going to look like a boxer (as in the clip above), why not just train boxing? If the delivery system for your punches and kicks when fighting doesn't look much like the delivery system you used when training for punching and kicking, then one has to wonder about the training. You fight the way you train. If you are going to use a boxing structure when sparring and call it Wing Chun, then we should be seeing the same structure when you do your drills or Wing Chun forms. Shouldn't we? Why train one way and fight another?
Now don't get me wrong Alan. There is nothing wrong with what you guys are doing. But I would call it MMA with Wing Chun concepts, not Wing Chun.