Its funny that people say chunners are blindfolded (pardon the pun 
). I used to study Wing Chun (For about 6 years) before our teacher did a runner (Sad, Irritating subject). Once every 3 months our sifu brought in one of the instructors from the grapping class downstairs to train us for the entire class with the idea of giving us a very basic grounding of what happens when we get caught on the ground. Opens the eyes very quickly to a weakness, esp as an only child with a 70kg frame (i.e no prior sibling fighting experience and no size advantage). He also used to cover very basic Karate and Boxing for the purposes of us understanding what we could come up against (He also trained several boxers as well as a Kenpo class)
Now training in Hapkido and dabbling in BJJ. Its amazing how well im finding all 3 styles link together. Our Hapkido class has students from many diff previous styles, Being able to spar going from Wing Chun style attack then finding a stray limb to use a Hapkido lock or throw to take it to the ground before trying to finish it with either a Roll Punch or Submission has by far improved my ability from just pure Wing Chun (albiet i dont feel i got as much out of my Wing Chun training as i would have liked, but thats a different thread)
To anyone (any style) with the blinkers on. I have to recommend cross training at least to a degree. Every style has a weakness (hence a reason why so many diff systems still exist today), and if your too stubborn to take up a new style on the side, you should at least have enough knowledge of other systems to recognise their techniques and strategy to learn how to counter them.
). I used to study Wing Chun (For about 6 years) before our teacher did a runner (Sad, Irritating subject). Once every 3 months our sifu brought in one of the instructors from the grapping class downstairs to train us for the entire class with the idea of giving us a very basic grounding of what happens when we get caught on the ground. Opens the eyes very quickly to a weakness, esp as an only child with a 70kg frame (i.e no prior sibling fighting experience and no size advantage). He also used to cover very basic Karate and Boxing for the purposes of us understanding what we could come up against (He also trained several boxers as well as a Kenpo class)Now training in Hapkido and dabbling in BJJ. Its amazing how well im finding all 3 styles link together. Our Hapkido class has students from many diff previous styles, Being able to spar going from Wing Chun style attack then finding a stray limb to use a Hapkido lock or throw to take it to the ground before trying to finish it with either a Roll Punch or Submission has by far improved my ability from just pure Wing Chun (albiet i dont feel i got as much out of my Wing Chun training as i would have liked, but thats a different thread)
To anyone (any style) with the blinkers on. I have to recommend cross training at least to a degree. Every style has a weakness (hence a reason why so many diff systems still exist today), and if your too stubborn to take up a new style on the side, you should at least have enough knowledge of other systems to recognise their techniques and strategy to learn how to counter them.
