Drunken Monkey Posted August 19, 2004 Posted August 19, 2004 i'm gonna' check out the local wing chun place on saturday ....hehehe..... prepare for sore shoulders post count is directly related to how much free time you have, not how intelligent you are."When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
battousai16 Posted August 19, 2004 Posted August 19, 2004 ...sore in a good way, right? not like, sore because they'll all be punching me in the shoulders for being a korean stylist with quite a bit of flashy, worthless, innefficient moves...? "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
Drunken Monkey Posted August 19, 2004 Posted August 19, 2004 ...they wouldn't be punching at your shoulders. we like to aim for the head.... sore cos of movements. IF you're doing it 'wrong' it will absolutely knacker your shoulders. post count is directly related to how much free time you have, not how intelligent you are."When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
WC-Strayder Posted August 20, 2004 Posted August 20, 2004 Ohh, no, I forgot, it's a big secret! Ohh dear, I'm in for it now! My sifu gonne skin me alive for this...... No really, Wing Chun is, despite it's chinese orgin, very strait forward and simple. (Don't mind Drunken Monkey here, he is just fooling around with - .....and well, it's not easy. i never realised there were so many.... - But do not listen to him, he really IS drunken you know...) And wing chun is lightning fast! Muscle memory is the key word, so say my sifu. We train reps (I'm a yellow sash) to we react to movement as it was our second natur (We call "reps" Chi Sao, sticky hands) and then we train the main Wing Chun weapon, the chain punch. (This is where your shoulders will be sore for the first times, believe me, if you don't lower them when you do those chain punch reps, begining from one single punch up to ten in reps of ten!!!) Wing Chun IS simple and very easy to learn, (totally free for "fancy and flowerly" techniques), but despite that you still learn some new things every day you train( It iIS after all Chinese ) . Like the old saying, easy to learn, hard to master! (The secret of wing chun is: master your basic and never forget what your basic is then your "gong fu" will be great!) Ohh, no! I'll done it again, telling those secrets! Sorry drunken monkey, but from now on I'll be sober, I promize!!! (Hey Sifu, I'll like to explain....AHHRGGH!) And the best of it all is that Wing Chun is fun, fun and more fun to learn I'm sure you will love it battousai16! If the first lesson was a failure, then you know that skydiving isn't for you!
Drunken Monkey Posted August 20, 2004 Posted August 20, 2004 ....hehehe..... actually, i didn't mean that it is a secret. it's just a lot of kids who don't actually train ONLY see a kick to the knee as something you do to damage the knee. they have no idea that kicking can also be a controlling technique. y'know, they see a kick as being a technique by and in itself. where-as in wing chun, it is sometimes a device to aid control of your opponent's movement/direction/mobility..... y'see? and about the principles and theories.... they are there and there are many. the problem is i) they are all in chinese and a bit hard to collect, organise and translate. ii) most of the time they are not taught in words but shown in the class by actions. i mean, even in the two posts you have here, you have already mentioned (the actions of) two principles.... post count is directly related to how much free time you have, not how intelligent you are."When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
battousai16 Posted August 21, 2004 Posted August 21, 2004 i didn't get to go ahead on in today; there was to much commotion with my sister moving out and what not. i called and the guy says it's Pien San Wing Chun, and that the guy (he told me to call him Ben, but i suppose that would change if i were to train under him. or would it? my tai chi guy is still Terry...) at any rate, he says he trained under Austin Goh and Juerg Ziegler. does this mean anything to anyone? "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
Drunken Monkey Posted August 22, 2004 Posted August 22, 2004 i know austin goh (on a purely 'profssional' basis). my cousin trains with one his kung fu brothers (who trained with goh sifu under lee shing) it might interest you to know that lee shing was the student that yip man chose to present his own pair of butterfly knives to. that kinda says a lot about his abilities. so i can 'vouch' for the guys up to austion goh's level but anything after him, i have no idea about cos they would still be relatively 'young' in the system/family. post count is directly related to how much free time you have, not how intelligent you are."When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
battousai16 Posted August 22, 2004 Posted August 22, 2004 i gotta' say, you guys have a much neater history than we do. at least yours is legitimately traceable... "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
47MartialMan Posted August 28, 2004 Posted August 28, 2004 I did not know Ving Tsun had colored levels of achievement? The one instructor I've met, stated this isn't so.
battousai16 Posted August 28, 2004 Posted August 28, 2004 i wouldn't imagine so traditionally, but one could certainly insert them. it dosen't even seem as though it would be difficult; just give them a sash after every form. y'know, not that i would, it's just that it could be done, and probably has been. "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
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