I am really curious what the current Kung Fu instructors say about MMA or just Muay Thai when a student questions its effectiveness due to all the matches you seen online in the last couple years? I dabbled in some traditional arts such as Kung Fu and Karate in my youngers years. As I got older I moved on to the MMA arts and majority of my martial arts experiences are in those arts instead. What I find really funny across spending time in Boxing Gym, Muay Thai Gyms and Bjj is that all of the instructors DO NOT discuss self defense, they are all competition focused and teach for competition. However, I favor the MMA instructors over many of the tradition martial arts instructors in a 1 on 1 fight scenario (no gloves) base on my personal experiences. Just in Muay Thai my instructor along with some of the top students have extensive backgrounds in traditional arts such as Karate and Kung Fu. They all speak fairly high of their traditional art experiences; what stands out is that they do NOT have this traditional arts vs MMA/modern arts attitude that you see very often on the internet. I also have ran into a few students that automatically assume that traditional martial arts is not the same level of intensity and conditioning as Muay Thai. What I am curious is whether or not there are people that done MMA type arts for multiple years and abandoning to switch into a traditional arts like Kung Fu? I am sure it exist but my guess is that is it not common?
You are a gentleman. You are saying in a very polite way that kung fu can't fight. However, it is people not kung fu or MMA that fight. It is not the kung fu styles but the people, their training and attitude. Kung fu sifu's and practitioners generally do not emphasize basic training, i.e., stretching, weight lifting, endurance training in the form of jogging or skipping ropes, or punching bags. Sifu themselves lack fighting experience and they just want to pass on their number of sets and do not push students to get in the ring for practical training. Students are basically learning how to swim in a classroom. Students do not have the opportunity to try out what work best for them. At the end kung fu students can't fight, but MMA fighters copied so many hand or kicking techniques from kung fu and put them to use. In Hong Kong parents do not want their kids do sparring for fear of injuries. In the 50's to early 70's there were well known fighting schools in Hong Kong, especially Wing Chun, Choy Lei Fut, and Pak Mei, but unfortunately they were frequently related to the mob. It had to be. Many good fighters were gaining practical experience in real fights. In those corrupted days it was not infrequent for a couple hundred gangsters fighting at midnight for turfs. I learned Pak Mei, and I have sparred more than a couple hundred times with friends and friends of friends. To get more practical experience I attended a boxing club at the university town during college, owned by the boxing PE teacher, and boxed Golden Gloves. Sifu Gong here is very impressive. My impression of Wing Chun? I found Wing Chun very complicated with three options for defense, fuk, bong, and tan. Search RU-vid, when Wing Chun fighters entered the ring did they really put these techniques to use? Pak Mei is more simple minded, only variants of the tan and fok, no bong. May be a half bong with one of their elbow techniques. Like computing, if not 0 then use 1, be quick, then try to be good. Even simpler, with Pak Mei one could just use the tan, tan to the left or tan to the right, and fight like a boxer. That is already complicated enough as there are already 4 options to choose from with two hands. I found that in real fighting situations it is three dimensional, the less options allows one to respond faster and more appropriately. In boxing there are no hand techniques for defense if you don't count upper arm and elbow movements in front of the head, as if doing Pak Mei. For defense boxing has just footwork, plus ducking, rolling, and bobbing/weaving, and that is complicated enough to master. Do I sound too dumb? Yes I do, just a professional with a 130 IQ. A major deficiency of all standing styles is the lack of floor techniques.
This is one of the Best Videos on Wing Chun /Ving Tsun.. and the techniques are broken down into variations of each.. like all the variations of Bong Sao.. Sifu Chi Keung Kong reminds me of my Sifu Eddie Chong. There are lots of short training forms of each tool that are interesting that I have not seen before, they look really good i will have to study them. Some of these variations of Wing Chun tools, ive had to discover on my own since I was not taught them. Great Vid! Everyone that took part in filming this short vid was Awesome with their Ving Tsun...
This is incredible detailed wing chun I have ever seen I'm very much DESIRE to study wing chun from your school I'm greatly thankful to sifu in video and rest for knowledge ,details of art I thank you for this outstanding ,detailed meaning ,as well interpretation of wing chun sincerely thank you
I have trained this art for 40 odd years and it is really refreshing to see your perspective, unfortunately don’t speak your language but your expressive style leads me to fill in the gaps; wish you strength and health
My Sifu tried to teach something similar and implementing similar if not same principles. He called it Gong Sau or talking hands. However, I learned right away the lessons and understanding are very deep. It requires a lot of practice and patience. I hope I can reach the level of understanding like what I see in this video.
Really good video on Wing Chun. I started Wing Chun in 1976 but knew of it in 1969. I learned various styles before Wing Chun (Karate, Hung Gar, Tai Chi, Wrestling etc.)
Unmatched in pitch dark and close quarters. In daylight and open space target weak spots: poke the eyes out, kick groin, target throat etc. then do whatever you want as speed of wingchun hands can penetrate most defenses. After clinch 99% grab thus maul your way out, dont wrestle and play the mma jujitsu etc. It hardly works in the ring because of rules.
Bong sau is transitional and should not be used as a literal block. It does not work as such a tool due to the type of energy involved in its use. One does not simply make a bong sau shape and thrust it forward to block an attack. It will not work in this context.
you can't have horizontal bong sau, it is impossible to support the weight of the punch. Why do you think the wooden dummy bong sau is on an angle, because that is the way the bong sau supposed to work. You practice many hours of wooden dummy, it is the core training. The result is you will use spontaneously bong sau on an angle
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Exelente Desde VENEZUELA. Namasté 🙏. Primero ves q veo q hacen ataques diferente en el wing Chun. Lo único q los ataques en posiciones de caballo no me gustan yo los hago con el pie más adelantado .. 👍👍👍👍👍
