Excellent Post Chop Suey. So true in the design of Wing chun...Excellent post I have not seen such a post in a long while...
Originally Posted by
Chop suey
That's not sparring, its chi sau.
To respond to the original post about wing chun not resembling wing chun during an actual fight or sparring match:
If it doesnt resemble wing chun, then why? Are they violating the basic principles? Look for elbow position, balance, use of centerline etc etc. All of these things can and do work. And if you adhere to them, guess what? It looks like wing chun.
Oh and back to the post about mike tyson. Anyone average person would be crazy to fight. Now consider we're free to kick to groin, knee, strike to eyes/ throat. No boxing gloves, no ropes confining the ring. In high school I once witnessed a 100 lb girl, drop her bully football-player boyfriend to his knees with a swift kick to the gonads in front of the lockers between classes after he started getting ruff with her. She didn't know any martial arts. Consider that wing chun was designed for someone small and weak to be able to defeat someone much more powerful. It's true. Now in addtion to the deadly array of strikes, add in being able to sense your opponents direction of energy just by simply making contact with his arms, maybe only for a fraction of an instant . A skill you've refined from countless hours of chi sau. I could go on and on.
The Flow is relentless like a raging ocean with crashing waves devasting anything in its path.
"Kick Like Thunder, Strike Like Lighting, Fist Hard as Stones."
"Wing Chun flows around overwhelming force and finds openings with its constant flow of forward energy."
"Always Attack, Be Aggressive always Attack first, Be Relentless. Continue with out ceasing. Flow Like Water, Move like the wind, Attack Like Fire. Consume and overwhelm your Adversary until he is No More"