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DokterVet: Yeah, that seems like the only option. But we are taught to look over the principles and theories real well before we decide to do something that kind of goes against them. TJS: I never said it was impossible. I said if you try and nlock a real boxing hook wrist to wrist you are still going to get punched somewhere in the head.

Yes. Girls love my super speed nunchaku skills, as well as flexible abilities.

Gung Fu is the cantonese pronunciation of Kung Fu. Kung Fu is generally an american term. If you were to go to china and ask for a kung fu school people would most likely look at you funny. The general term for martial arts in china is Wu Shu. Wu Shu however is also a name for a type of form competition in china. The difference between Wing Chun and wushu? Depends what you mean by wu shu. The real meaning doesn't make sense, it's like asking, "What's the difference between Wing Chuns and martial arts?" However, Sport Wu Shu is only forms and is used for display. Wing Chun is strictly a form of pugilism.

That's true, but the main argument there is that all tournaments have rules. Rules that restrict certain precision strikes because of the long term problems they can cause, and tend to favor massive strength pounding. Even the UFC has a huge list of no no's.

.....It was stated in the the first post that size matters, the question is how much....

Eh, if you try and meet a real boxing hook wrist to wrist, even if you do meet him you will still get punched somewhere in the head.

More specifically, the boxing hook. Any of you that have ever seen a Wing Chun practitioner fight a boxer in a ring, chances are they were wearing boxing gloves, and chances are they lost. Boxing gloves, or any thick gloves for that matter, work against Wing Chun. Anyways, onto the point. I practice wing chun, and have no real problem dealing with and countering MOST boxing techniques. However, there is one that always gets me. And that is the boxing hook. For those of you that don't know, in wing chun they divide the area around your body into gates. Head is in the high gate, chest is in the high middle, abdomen the middle and waist down is the low gate(some styles have an extra gate for the bottom of the abdomen.) The gates extend laterally to your shoulder's width and stop there. Vertically they extend a little ways above your head. Pretty much all fighting and hand movement is done within your gate and your opponents. Now the problem with the boxing hook. I don't believe wing chun principles were designed to deal with it, but I could be wrong, please correct me. A good boxing hook will never pass through the front section of your gates to the target, instead it will come around and strike you laterally from the side of your top gate. The only part of your opponents arm that enters the top gate before the strike is their fist, and ontop of that it enters laterally, which makes it very difficult to block effectively without throwing an arm outside of your gate's to block it at the elbow. I have been taught that leaving your gates with your arms is usually a bad idea, but I would like some other people's opinions on it.

That would depend on your style, goat. Some instructors insists that having a bounce is lunacy unless you are boxing due to the clinch and takedown methods of today.

Alright, it's obvious that size DOES indeed matter in a fight. All things being equal, the bigger man wins. How much do you think size really matters? We all have BASICALLY the same vital spots and anatomy. Now the only things that seperates fighters are skill, conditioning, reach and perhaps build. Maybe height as well?

The closest you will see to grappling is probably a lop sao into a rear naked choke. Which means you shouldn't learn wing chun alone, mix it with a ground art.

You want a GREAT way to do it? Put on pads and have the attacker REALLY ATTACK YOU!

Man, I absolutely *love* fighting guys that try to be all show off flashy during the match. I don't want to come off as malicious or mean, but I enjoy emberassing them. It teaches them a bit of a lesson--And for those of you that think he may not be taking it seriously...I'd find that kind of offensive if someone were sparring me and not taking me seriously.... Anyways...Just put a hand, or a shove, or a kick into the middle of one of their fancy moves and watch them fall. ^________^

You people sure do value your belts...What does a belt prove? That you know a form? That you can spar in a controlled environment? Focus on the person, not the belt... Not to offend, it just seems kind of silly to me now, coming from a style with no belts.

I have studied Wing Chun and instructed Tae Kwon Do. I can tell you right now that some of their theories and principles will conflict. I still use some of my TKD techs, but really only the side kick. Even the roundhouse pales in comparison to a muay thau style shin kick. Now someone will pop up and argue that the TKD Roundhouse takes .19 seconds to reach target once it leaves the ground and measures at an impact of 1012n, which is the world's strongest kicking tech. Good, now lets see you consistently hit an actively resisting fighter with it. When TKD sparring rules aren't in play, that is.

When you see the kick coming immediately raise the front leg (I am assuming that's the target) off the ground. Not too much, but enough so that the knee isn't going to be struck and so your leg can give. If it was a fake the fighter will almost certainly enter with a punch. If it wasn't, do not wait for him to lower his kicking leg. Step forward with the leg you had just raised and take the battle into close range, outside of thai kick range. The silly bastards shouldn't try to kick at this range, but if they do, just giving them a solid well timed push should floor them. Or you could just step back.

This is a link to three short lectures that describes some of the science behind Wing Chun very well. Definately a good read. Principles found in wing chun are apparent in many other fighting arts, and learning them can help you greatly in pugilism. http://wcats.com/CR-Lesson1.html

https://www.shaolins.com There it is right there. If you have the money and the time, or just want to see china, you can attend. I contemplated going for a while...But the idea of memorizing countless forms and learning a little bit of San Shou isn't that appealing after all.