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Yeah, I'm not convinced of that, but it's folk history, so it's tough for anyone to know. I had a guy visit my class before COVID who had trained at the Ving Tsun Athletic Association in Hong Kong. He told me that Ip Chun had removed all of the kicks from the system and didn't want them taught...

Being really good at a few foundational things is way better than skimming the surface on a bunch. Sit in your stance, hold a pad between your knees. Simple turning, if you don't remember the sequence your sifu taught you. Good idea working with a mirror. In addition to punching a heavy bag...

Yeah, but that wasn't the question. He asked about teachers. The teacher who has the thing that I need and a way of reaching me may not be the best teacher for someone else or someone starting out. If the student is all in on a specific lineage they may not be open to someone teaching outside...

Welcome. I started with a Moy Yat sifu before finding my way to Duncan Leung's lineage. Respect for your background, I'll look forward to hearing more from you.

I guess I'd like to hear more from the dojo about their policy. I (and most places) allow at least an observation if not a trial class, but traditional martial arts are not a modern convenience subscription. Personally, I don't sell training gear or uniforms or anything like that. Our...

...or e) calling the attacker's girlfriend to arrange dinner. 🙂

I've resumed up here in Seattle. Lost a few long term students during covid and are open to a few new ones to take their spots. But, we are back at it. I have not stayed particularly active here because Wing Chun threads get relentlessly trolled and who needs that?

My thought about most wing Chun techniques is that they start with a certain degree of ambivalence. They start as covering space, looking for a bridge, taking center. What happens next depends on what you run into. I never think about a biu jee finger strike as something to commit to from a...

Just to offer a contrasting perspective - where this goes against my training is the idea that from that unbridged position (or any position) that I want to execute a particular technique that is unavailable, so I need to do things first to change the circumstance, so that the technique will...

Fantastic.

No. You are not too old...unless of course, you believe that you are.

@Yanli I think it would help us if you plainly explained your background, then it would be easier for us to engage on where you are going with your training? Which style(s) have you formally studied? Which lineages and for how long? I'm neither for nor against what you are claiming right...

My son had a funny thought that I wanted to share here: "What if every country has Ninjas, but Japan's are really bad at it and that's why we know about them?" His logic is pretty sound!

I reccomend searching Amazon for books by Kris Wilder and see if the descriptions/reviews seem to speak to you.

Yep. It's all good, we're coming home.

We've done very early as well, but still.

We've done a bit of that, but I really don't like the attention that usually attracts. It is an option. I wish you had let me know! Would welcome you with open arms or least meet you for a pint. Lots of outdoor places for local beer here.

It's been over a year since we shared our responses to the initial news of the pandemic. I have a small group of adult students and don't do a lot of outreach and promotion. I have been blessed with a steady trickle of interest over the years which has been all that we need to keep going. But...

I don't have the "truth", but I think we look at those videos and say "this is how Yip Man did it", but we don't actually know that's how he did it his whole life. It is possible that he had more than one iteration of each form and he was just filmed doing one of them. I know a very senior sifu...

I agree with you on this. The best school is the one that you learn the best in and that is dependent on a lot of things. Some of those things will have to do with the style, some with the club, some with the teacher, and some have to do primarily with the student. There is a modern, western...

I spent several years training as a boxer and then in Muay Thai before I settled into Wing Chun (with some other things in between). I was never a prize fighter or a contender of any kind, but I put a lot of time and effort into it. One of the things that I used to do when I was a senior...

The people who we train work very hard. Impressed that we made it a page and a half before someone turned this into an MMA/BJJ discussion. That might be a new record.

I think that it's all training. When I used to look at some more, say esoteric kung fu systems' forms, I would think "that would never work in a fight!" Sometimes now I think "they did the flip (or whatever) and then landed in their stance, because they're training themselves to find that ground...

I think it's an error in logic to assume that "better" is the same as "more original". I also think that the concept of "original" is flawed and perhaps western. CMAs have forms and sometimes other things that distinguish them from other CMAs, but I don't think that whenever these systems...

He told me about the fake stuff he was going to give you in dreams, it's different. I have the exclusive real-real. With me, after that first, in person visit, it more like post-mortim Obi-Wan Knobi in the swamp.

I was the first to get the old footage. Yip Man heard of me and flew to Texas in the late 60s to personally deliver it to me when I was 3 years old and though he didn't speak English and I was in the yard playing with Tonka trucks, he bestowed upon me the real secrets with his eyes.

I have been invited to display my rank when visiting other clubs, but I have never once done it. It's a personal decision and agreement between the involved parties. But it does make a statement either way. You can guess where I come down, but as long and everyone involved agrees, I see no issues.

Yeah, there are lineages that are just ... different ... for sure. And you're right about the Baat Cham Do. The staff forms I've seen all have the same basic stuff, but the sequence is different. I see different expressions in everything, but if I'm being honest, I express things differently...

Interestingly enough, I feel like the biggest differences are in Chim Kiu. I don't know why.

I'd say that this fairly normal in a certain segment of TCMA, anyway. It is build more around IRL relationships with other teachers and I wouldn't say it happens at scales, but I've arranged for a senior student to spend time with another teacher, sometimes in another system and I've hosted...