Nick_UKWC

I think I might like to do it, in a few years if I'm ready and able. I find Wing Chun very rewarding and helping new people even more so, even though I've only been doing it for 14 months or so. Would you recommend it? What are the best and worst things about it? As a job how does it compare to your expectations?

You could say that about Wing Chun but we still spar...you just have to use the techniques that are not as dangerous.

"JKD is the most controversial Martial art. However, it is also the most popular martial art." Don't think I'd agree with that.

Should be a good laugh make sure you learn something during your beating

We've covered this kind of punch for the last 2 weeks in class. For a fast jab either the slap away or cover with bong to redirect. Bong does a good job of redirecting a jab and if they follow the punch through you can collapse it, take laap and then follow up from the outside gate however you're able.

Yeah I'd love to, but 30 hours of flight time and £950 for flights means this is just out of the question. A crying shame really. Put me down for a UK meet though, in the south or midlands (south preferably )

I have this show. Always wished they'd put a Wing Chun chain punch on the pressure pad thing

My Dad is very interested in World War 2, he's been building scale models and reading on the subject for 40 years. Now for most of us we watch a war film and thats a tank or a plane or a boat, job done. Gets the point across. If he watches a World War 2 film he's out of his seat every 5 minutes saying this is wrong, that's wrong, that's impossible they were never their etc etc etc. What I'm trying to say is that as much as the martial arts matter to us, they just don't matter to the general public and probably never will - just like my Dads specialist area probably doesn't matter to anyone here.

Wing Chun Other than that I'm most interested in San Soo and CLF.

Thanks, there is a quite a lot of reading material online, seems fairly high level to try and grasp without instruction though. One of those things where you can understand what they're saying, but not really understand what that means. If that makes sense.

How is it ineffective, and why would it be unfair? I've never done San Soo so I'm afraid I can't help with your question about hints and tips.

8. The silk reeling force should be present through the body. hmm?

*looks for part where I said you trained like that* Thanks for the link though. Only thing he did with his feet, everytime, was move into a Wing Chun forward stance lol.

The old dog thread is here

We already have this thread somewhere...

I don't know how the phrase came to pass, probably something to do with McNuggets pretending to be something to do with chicken and McDojos pretending to be something to do with martial arts...or McDonalds taking your money and giving you junk? But anyway, it just means a very poor Dojo, the kind that take thousands of dollars from their students and dishes out black belts regardless of talent. [Edit] Thread about McDojos

The idea of the Character 2 stance is to lock the lower body for the training af the upper body. It is also a good point of reference for footwork training and drilling in my experience but I've never heard of anyone actually fighting from/in this stance. Who do you train under?

Woo! thought I was the only person thinking this.

I have the film and I think it's quite a good laugh Can't beleive you had to ask if a style that makes people explode or that cuts people up from about 10 feet away using swirly lines coming from your fingers is real though lol

Bet that would be sweaty as hell lol

Everything I've read says the same - that it takes a very long time to get good at.

Anon, there are some people where the ethos you subscribe to holds true, and it makes me just as mad as it clearly makes you. People suing McDonalds for instance...you went through the door and you bought the Supersize BigMac meal, what did you expect to happen? However, to say that all people respond to diet in the same way or to say that all people who are over weight are just 'lazy' is out right wrong, as I suspect you know. You also seem to think the only type of eating disorder is to be overweight - another gross misjudgement. Perhaps you're not mentioning anything else (like the topic of the thread) because you don't have an easy formula to explain it away with. Infact I doubt having read your first post that you even saw what this thread was about before you launched into auto pilot and lambasted a whole host of people in situations you clearly don't understand.

I posted my thoughts on this subject in reply to your first question here

My girlfriend picked up a book on Wing Chun she saw in a sale for £1 because she thought I might be interested. She said the things I'd shown her made sense from the book but other things were not so clear. Once I'd had a look through myself I had to agree. It's not that the book gets it wrong, it's just that without someone there to correct you you'll never be sure you've got it right. Imagine if you spent 2 years perfecting something from a book and then an instructor told you the thing you'd been perfecting was actually not quite there. You would probably have a harder time correcting yourself than you had learning it in the first place.

I doubt he means the pigeon toed 'Character 2' stance which is what you're talking about. I mean, noone could fight like that, you can't balance, move, kick...