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Pffft. If you haven't learned superpowers in the first three lessons, leave. Obviously the Sifu is stringing you along to keep you paying fees hoping to lean superpowers.

Depends on a) the type of Wing Chun you do, and b) how advanced you are at it. Head movement, slipping punches and so on is all a part of Sum Nung wing chun; but you only get it when you are ready, before that you are told not to do it. And in terms of structure, structure is nothing without...

I think you meant Log.

Yes it does exist in the empty hand forms, though to a large degree I suspect it will probably depend on the style of wing chun you do. It is a feature of the Yip Man wing chun I learned; and It is most certainly a central component of Sum Nung wing chun I learn. That said it doesn't appear...

"The spear has small circular moves used for defense" What makes you think wing chun doesn't have it?

Everything you just said there, barring the floating elbow stuff, is well within the capabilities of any wing chun practitioner who has learned up to Chum Kue, assuming they know how to use it. It's all already built into the system, including this body movements stuff you keep recommending we...

It does that anyway with or without needing to hold onto the opponent's arm. As soon as you have contact , i,e, connection, you should have the intention and forward force required to move in as necessary. When the other guy pulls back he will pull your attack in. That's the entire point.

fair enough.

Well you are throwing out quite a few possibilities, and I'm not really following what you point is, but I'm guessing that its to do with footwork. I guess, yeah, you move in and stick where it is appropriate, if that means you advance with footwork then so be it.

In wckf92's defense chasing hands is definitely a thing, and usually a bad thing to do, but how one defines it might differ from one group the the next. I've seen some people argue that if you do anything other than attempt to hit a person (often you will hear "attack the centre") even if that...

Fair enough. "centerline Theory is very specific and does not have anything to do with C.P.T" I think this is where I'd deviate in agreement with you. Certainly I can see how they can and possibly should be separated earlier-intermediately, and indeed its easier to learn the elements of both...

If I am understanding what you wrote here correctly- are you are advocating CPT as taking control of the opponent's balance, rather than simply controlling their centreline? So to elucidate what I think you are meaning I can relate what I have felt from my Sifu quite often: When he deals with...

I think the Man Dow section of the knife form is further evidence that it was developed by and for women ;)

My sifu says exactly the same thing. One of the biggest things lacking in wing chun he sees is power in their punches. One of the reasons I personally don't see a lack of sparring as THE problem with wing chun, lack of a decent punch (or solid stance, or stability through the body, or limited...

When I started learning the knife form I noticed that the stance is much wider than the typical wing chun stance and has about a 60/40 distribution with the majority of weight on the back leg. I asked my sifu "is there a danger in someone sweeping your leg with 40% on the front and the stance...

Pfffftttt. you can keep your Bavarian Jiu Jitsu; I got a 10 degree blackbelt in Bavarian Cheesecake (the more cheesecake I eat the more degrees I need to ad to my belt).

Yeah exactly. I wasn't saying its hipserism to not want to use a belt system. After all, when I learn Yuen Kay San wing chun privately from my Sifu we don't have a belt system, or grading system for that matter, we just learn it as he teaches it. But in his class when he had it, and in mine, we...

That actually seems similar to how we do it. 4 levels represented by a coloured sash, 3 of those 4 levels divided into 4 sub levels. Each of the 3 levels corresponds roughly to 2 of the 6 forms. 1= Sui Lum Tao and Chum Kue, 2= Bui Ji and Wooden Dummy, 3= Pole and Knives 4= You have learned the...

Well true, we do use coloured sashes rather than a belt like karate, but calling it a belt or sash, same same as far as purpose for this discussion.

As a person who runs a wing chun school I can tell you (as someone above has already) that a belt makes it really easy for me to look at what's hanging around someone's waist and it immediately remind me where a person is, roughly, in terms of learning the system. So they are great when you have...

I have learned Yuen Kay San wing chun from a disciple of Sum Nung for the last 20 years. I would not dare call myself a high level practitioner though. I would be happy to chat about it if you like however I might be limited in just how much detail I can go into.

Have you ever watched Pin Choi from Guangzhou wing chun?

To an outside observer they would probably lock quite similar but when you know them they might as well be different martial arts.

I have learned both Yip Man Wing Chun and Yuen Kay San Wing Chun.

I thought Jim Henson was the King of Talking Hands.

Well, again I suspect all martial arts are conceptual arts, I don't think wing chun is special in that regard, but lets say I teach a student to do what we call single centreline punches. I first get them to simply throw the punch while pulling their retreating arm up to the resting arm...

Well, maybe there are people like that out there but I'm not sure wing chun really works in such a 1 to 1 manner as Technique X is countered by Technique Z so I won't show you Z. This is where we get all these people going on about wing chun being a "conceptual art". I suspect any martial art...

Why are you assuming that a teacher withholds "secrets" from students? When I teach my students I withhold a lot from them, but none of it is a secret. I withhold stuff that they are not ready for. Its not withholding secrets, its teaching at a level appropriate to the student's needs. My sifu...

I think that's it. When one takes a student they also take the responsibility to teach them properly. Anyone who is an outsider however, they get what they are given. If they become an "insider" as it were, then they will be taught properly. But there are also other considerations re teaching...

I don't know what you think you are reading in that thing you quoted from me earlier but that isn't about coercion and there is not a word about anyone tricking anyone of being sneaky and having ulterior motives. It's a comment on the social situation in which politeness dictates a particular...