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or is it purely a fighting art?
Originally posted by Sharp Phil
"Don't fight force with force" is probably a pretty good philosophy for life. To expand on that, one of the guiding philosophies of Wing Chun is,
Lui lao hui soong. Lut sao jik chung.
That translates roughly to,
Receive what comes, accompany what leaves. Charge straight when free.
dmax999 said:How about:
Fight smarter, not harder.
yipman_sifu said:NO, this is absloutely wrong my friend. Wing chun is not fighting smart, because Wing Chun has no brain. Wing Chun beauty comes from its simplicity and effectiveness. There are some other arts masters are very proud saying: hey, look we have more than 10000 stances and moves in our style.
Hearing such a phrase is like you said:''fighting smart'', but why I need all of these silly stances when I can punch straight and effective and it's game over.
Tell you something, I am really proud to train in little moves that produces maximum results than to train fancy moves, because in a real fight, you will not be smart to use a certain block against an attack, there is no time, you must let your reflexes guides you and that's comes by Wing Chun simple moves.
ed-swckf said:The simplicity is where the intelegence lies, the clever training that trains you to react instinctivly to movement, the smart design of the simple system with its contact sensitivity work. the forsight to see that a system made up of a less forms and less shapes, using only enough to complete the job in hand, the shapes the system is based upon, the way the movement works in relation to yourself and your oponent. The wing chun training does indeed get you to remove the brain from the way you react and fight and that in itself is a really smart way to fight. I'm pretty sure thats what dmax999 was alluding to.
yipman_sifu said:Hearing such a phrase is like you said:''fighting smart'', but why I need all of these silly stances when I can punch straight and effective and it's game over.
Tell you something, I am really proud to train in little moves that produces maximum results than to train fancy moves, because in a real fight, you will not be smart to use a certain block against an attack, there is no time, you must let your reflexes guides you and that's comes by Wing Chun simple moves.