hmm I personally believe that full contact training of some kind is absolutely necessary. In a fight, the emotional shock of being struck is...
thank god Thank God you posted CKava... You summed up everything I was going to type out so I didn't have to.
goatnipples2002 I agree with much of what you said... I think that if I had to pick between two guys to have my back in a fight on the street, one...
I put "Other" because none of the Poll options really cover training for "self defense" on the street. Not as a professional like a police...
CKava, that was a very interesting article... a good read. I have never met Sifu Boztepe, but I would certainly like to. I have met Grandmaster...
I now stand "face on" to allow me to use both my hands in WC stance. I used to unconciously shift into a side stance when sparring or a real...
Sometimes I feel like "Wow, I really have something here... I have really progressed!" ... then sometimes I feel like "I'm so far from ever...
Most MA traditional weapons are not going to be effective in a street fight simply because you won't be carrying them. A katana for example is a...
Eightfold Path, yeah... bipolar disorder is widely misunderstood, and a difficult thing to live with, but my training has helped me out a ton. My...
I liked your post so much Maximicus that I stole it for my sig. :D
Wing Chun ...not violent? Sounds like someone lied to you. WC is one of the most brutal fighting styles I have seen. Crippling low kicks, elbow...
"JKD-ish vision that Bruce Lee had so strongly advocated so long ago?" Wing Chun is not techniques set in stone... it is a collection of...
I am bipolar (manic depressive) which a bent towards the depressive... and MA has given me a great deal of focus and emotional growth. I highly...
CKava, agreed! "because I think that in Wing Chun the principles are the be all and end all." "the principles are what make it Wing Chun-...
I think a lot of kung fu schools neglect ground fighting training... this is definitely an important thing to train for real combat. It would be...
I definitely recommend checking it out, it is extremely straightforward...with a great deal of depth also.
What is blindingly obvious to some people may not be so clear to others... you don't know who might have benefited from reading this thread for...
I think we are all basically saying the same thing, just in different words... Andy Murray, I think WingChun Lawyer means that understanding the...
WingChun Lawyer, very cool, sounds like we are spot on in agreement then. I don't care in the slightest when someone is throwing punches why my...
While I have not been in a street fight since I started my WC training, I do have a couple observations. One thing we train at the kwoon is how WC...
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