Check out this clip by Alan Orr.
If you don't know who he is, he's a British Wing Chun guy who has adapted his system to train competitive fighters. Outwardly, what he trains looks less like WC and more like what most everyone else does who come to MMA competition with a striking background in Western boxing. Some traditionalists reject what he's doing. Others are intrigued. At any rate it brings up some good questions such as,
What is WC? Does it have to look a certain way, or is WC more conceptual?
Is Alan Orr's approach an inevitable response to the dominant fighting methods of our times? Or is "undiluted" old school WC more effective, at least outside of the ring when applied as a method of self-defense?
What do you guys think?
If you don't know who he is, he's a British Wing Chun guy who has adapted his system to train competitive fighters. Outwardly, what he trains looks less like WC and more like what most everyone else does who come to MMA competition with a striking background in Western boxing. Some traditionalists reject what he's doing. Others are intrigued. At any rate it brings up some good questions such as,
What is WC? Does it have to look a certain way, or is WC more conceptual?
Is Alan Orr's approach an inevitable response to the dominant fighting methods of our times? Or is "undiluted" old school WC more effective, at least outside of the ring when applied as a method of self-defense?
What do you guys think?
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