london and uk guys...

[renketsu]

As a fair few of us will be karateka - I will add that I have also done a bit of weapons training and can show tonfa and/or nunchaku kata with applications - may need some help with people bringing the weapons though - I only have about 3 sets of each

 

Current list:

 

Renketsu - Shotokan Karate / Kobu-jitsu (Weapons - Tonfa / nunchaku)

 

Mart - Muay Thai

[Drunken Monkey]

i also figured that if we fail to find a suitable place we could just attack one of the london parks, providing the weather was good...

 

anyway.

 

i'm beginning to feel a little inferior to some of the guys here.

 

instructors, muay thai guys....

 

compared to you, i have very little experience.

 

but i'm always game for things like this.

 

means i can learn more.

 

or perhaps we can find something else to do.

 

there's a big-ish capoeria club in brixton that i've always wanted to go visit.

 

i just like the idea of some sort of "neutral ground".

 

guess the pub it is then....

 

***edit***

 

oops.

 

forgot.

 

i am a student of big talk and slapping hands.

 

also known as wing chun.

 

and i'm prepared for a beating!

[Mart]

Monkey ......what do you do?

 

I mean make up your mind is it Patty cake or way of the intercepting face?

 

But really whats your system?

 

And no cr@p about being inferior, girls can kick @* as well, you never know you might beat us all up.

 

Actually I think it might be an idea to leave training to another time and see if we all get on first. Just a thought. Pub sounds good.

[Drunken Monkey]

when i said inferior i meant in terms of training.

 

sometime i just get the impression that i don't train as hard or as much as some other styles.

 

i mean, one thing that strikes me is that at this meet, i will kinda be representing my style and we are notorious for being able to talk a good fight but very unable to prove it...

[Mart]

hmmm..... that sounds a little odd, why do they talk about something they cant do?

[Drunken Monkey]

not really unable to do.

 

just not guarenteed be able to make it work.

 

in isolation and in a controlled environment it works.

 

a lot of it is also because wing chun is based on a lot of theories.

 

some times, people concerntrate too much on the theory and forget to actually try.

 

it's also partly due to the fact many wing chun guys do not step outside of their own training hall and so do not actually test the technique.

 

as a result, while it 'works', many do not know how to make it really work.

 

make sense?

[Mart]

Yes that does, I always thought WC was highly practical though.

[Drunken Monkey]

it is.

 

but when you get presented with so many answers, you sometimes forget to see if they are correct (for you).

 

like i can receive pretty much anything with a tan sau and side shift/step

 

BUT

 

it doesn't mean that you can.

 

so it isn't the style that has the problem

 

more like some people's approach.

[Mart]

Thats a fair point. This feel for what works for you comes from sparring. I have attended a couple of WC lessons before and was impressed by the usefulness of the techniques. How long have you been doing WC for?

 

I think sometimes people can spend ages talking about well if you do this then i would do that and then you would do this etc. Spar and all becomes clear. The first thing i learnt is you cant plan.

[Drunken Monkey]

well, the things that work best are often the most basic, simple things, like the side step/shift, tan sau, pak sau and the good old straight punch.

 

that's why these are the things you see in every wing chun club done every day.

 

it's also why a lot of people give up on wing chun cos they can't get past the repetitive nature can be off-putting.

 

i was quite a hard worker in my time a few years ago but for the last two years i've been 'home-less' but generally, on and off for about 6 years now.

 

real world: two years properly.

 

have also been going to a kick-boxing thing for about 9 months.