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Ultimatewingchun
"PS_Wing chun is not just a close quarters system." (Joy)
***I really have to smile every time I read or hear this. The following is how this very website FORUMS define it:
WING CHUN
The world's most popular form of Southern Kung Fu, Wing Chun is characterized by short range power, center-line strategy and sticking and deflecting techniques.
***Huum...short range power?! So one is not at short range when applying short range power? Not at short range when sticking or deflecting?
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Then again, some people's boxing is pretty much short range as well. Some people like long slapping jabs, and long hooks, and long, overreaching straights. Some people prefer close-in "dirty boxing" or peekaboo styles. Couldn't some people's wing chun also be more extended than others?
At the same time though....I'd agree fully that wing chun as I know it is moreso a close combat system, and one that best used at it's most effective range. Classifying wing chun as a "long range" art is (no pun intended) reaching a bit.
"I don't know if anyone is known with the art of "sitting on your couch" here, but in my eyes it is also to be a martial art.
It is the art of avoiding dangerous situations. It helps you to avoid a dangerous situation by not actually being there. So lets say there is a dangerous situation going on somewhere other than your couch. You are safely seated on your couch so you have in a nutshell "difused" the situation."