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Aleem
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I didn't know where to post first. I thought I'd post here with fellow WingTsun practitioners. I have an unbelievable amount of questions regarding WingTsun, self-defense, etc. I hope I don't ask overly-confused or stupid questions. I've only been doing WingTsun at University for 2 months. That's 16 lessons so far I think.
I'm willing to be patient with it, but with only 3 years at University, I don't know how far I could take my training for WingTsun (with respects to improving my self-defense). Could anyone please give me a general time-frame for what can potentially be achieved in 45 lessons per year (over 3 years)? I spend 28 weeks at home during holidays from university, which means I lose out critically on constant training (there are no WingTsun lessons for atleast 150 miles here). I guess what I'm trying to ask is, that with respects to competence in ability to defend myself in a street-situation against 1 assailent, how much can WingTsun potentially help me?
So far the lessons have been really disparate. The only thing I'm doing at the moment is the Siu Nim Tao. I've got 4 weeks of holidays with no teacher or partners. Any pointers as to what I could do to make the most of this time?
Like I said, apologies for very confused questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
p.s. I'm Aleem, 19, very thin (and physically quite weak) - WingTsun is my first ever experience of any martial arts.
p.p.s. I might as well ask this now. My primary motive for learning WingTsun is for self-defense. However, I realise that for me to be able to use it well, it might take very long; is there any disadvantage to me also taking up something like KickBoxing on the side, to maybe condition myself against blows, etc? The university also runs Kickboxing, Jujutsu and WuShuKwan (chinese kickboxing I think???) classes. Could these help me with self-defense? Would it be advisable to do something like Kickboxing in parallel to something like WingTsun?
Thank you very much!
I'm willing to be patient with it, but with only 3 years at University, I don't know how far I could take my training for WingTsun (with respects to improving my self-defense). Could anyone please give me a general time-frame for what can potentially be achieved in 45 lessons per year (over 3 years)? I spend 28 weeks at home during holidays from university, which means I lose out critically on constant training (there are no WingTsun lessons for atleast 150 miles here). I guess what I'm trying to ask is, that with respects to competence in ability to defend myself in a street-situation against 1 assailent, how much can WingTsun potentially help me?
So far the lessons have been really disparate. The only thing I'm doing at the moment is the Siu Nim Tao. I've got 4 weeks of holidays with no teacher or partners. Any pointers as to what I could do to make the most of this time?
Like I said, apologies for very confused questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
p.s. I'm Aleem, 19, very thin (and physically quite weak) - WingTsun is my first ever experience of any martial arts.
p.p.s. I might as well ask this now. My primary motive for learning WingTsun is for self-defense. However, I realise that for me to be able to use it well, it might take very long; is there any disadvantage to me also taking up something like KickBoxing on the side, to maybe condition myself against blows, etc? The university also runs Kickboxing, Jujutsu and WuShuKwan (chinese kickboxing I think???) classes. Could these help me with self-defense? Would it be advisable to do something like Kickboxing in parallel to something like WingTsun?
Thank you very much!