I was at a seminar with Emin the other day. Believe me when I say there is lots of power in his hits. I know he was holding back, yet my body is still aching. It was a great experience training with him. 1 2 3 EBMAS Denmark :-)
I like the way he explains the stepping energy to deliver the punching power..I also like the way he teaches practical fighting techniques..good stuff. Jah Guide
I remember going to a seminar years ago with Boztepe & he was demonstrating an entrance/punch where the leg moves from a neutral stance & punch. I looked at him with the straightest face said "I've seen the videos, can I just lay on the ground and grovel in pain?" He looked at me & said "No" and punched me in the chest. I kept my hands behind my back. He said "Do you see?" and I said "Yes" and he said "Good watch again" & hit me again. He ended up hitting me 6 times. Worst pain I'd been in ever.
He's not actually hitting him. He has no idea how to properly throw a punch. If he ever got in a real fight (which he turned down 3 times in a row after claiming he was interested in fighting a gracie bjj fighter and then wussed out), he would hyperextend his elbow the first punch he threw with anger. He also has absolutely no idea what he's saying about boxing. When throwing a lead hook you put your weight on your back foot. In something that simple, that a literal child learns it in their first boxing class, he proves he is a fraud. Do not be lured in by the cult of traditional martial arts. There's a reason absolutely none of them are used in mixed martial arts.
@diegos781 To let you know, this assistant is actually another si- fu, I think his name is Sean Casey. That said, I do remember Emin sending me back 2 metres with just a simple push at one of his seminars. I don't think its disrespect to the student, the amount of force generated by Emin's body and his velocity, however fast or slow, is the principle of wing tzun. This art was designed to fend off stronger opponents, and Im sure even a beginner could harness considerable force. No pain, no gain
Well spoken here. WC is great in the Cinemas. Donnie is an MMA dude & actually would've stepped in the ring himself but he suffered a pretty bad shoulder injury that has bothered him since. These MMA guys have actually got experience already bc they've already stepped in the ring and hit someone
Hehe, Emin is funky master, greeeeTz. You guys shouldnt be in love with styles, you should be in love with yourself and what you can learn from that....watch,listen,think,practice,feel and smile. After you managed that i bet the only 3 words formed by your lips will be :"Cool ! Thank you.
His tendons do not stretch that far but the point I belive he is making is focusing on bringing his body back to the original position with tension after the punch creating a whip effect.
One should try to not be confused by what he/she perceives the instructor to be doing; I'm an Aikido student and often my instructor will do something that I think will be easy because of how I think he's moving; but when it's my turn to try it out I find that it wasn't what it looked like at all, there are many hidden, subtle movements that are the driving force behind a given technique, you have to be open to learning and not dismiss things/people before you try yourself. This guy is good.
I use to do Wing Tsun and now practice Bagua...very similarities on how to distribute power. Nevertheless...Emin is AWESOME. U can do nothing but give immediate respect.
I agree with you on pretty much all of that as it's common sense. However, the trouble with the average MMA practitioner is that they only know very little bits of lots of styles. At one time MMAers used to have a single style as their base and then add to it, nowadays MMA is morphing into its own style and tends to look the same.
Little did Emin know 15 years later, we are working from home and sitting at our jobs even MORE than we ever have before. And WC is no defense against guns!
depends on wat works 4 u no1 can tell u wats better its about who teaches u and how hard u train u can make any fighting style effective if u know how thats y they r all still about and not lost in time
@kenderesster a couple of months ago i saw a martial arts science documentary on national geographic channel. A chinese monk trained in wing chun delivered a punch on a punchbag,some scientists attached all kind of equipment to it and could not believe what they saw on their monitors,his punch equaled (in pounds measured) the punch of a heavy weight boxer though the chinese guy was not build as a heavyweight boxer and was not very muscled. Wing chun punch is proven VERY effective.
@bordereye I can't say I have personally trained with Sifu Emin, but I have trained with his students, and I can tell you, athletically inclined or not, the technique is there. Whatever your views are on what the man is teaching, it works.
@SkemeKOS Well, to be fair, I think Boztepe is able to *PUSH* relatively well with this technique. When you do what he does - drop down your sholders, flex your spine muscles to make shoulder blades parallel - then moving an arm forward is done not with the deltoids, but rather with more stronger pecs. The movement becomes something not unlike a one-handed dumbbell press. In that sense, wing chun punch is very similar biomechanically to a tsuki of karate - and not very effective as a punch.
this is very good and is probably very useful for self defence however i notice that his helper is standing with both feet beside eachother making him very unbalanced and easy to push over.
@TheTerrorUforgot I don't think he says that, he said Wing Tsun relies more on moving the body weight than boxing does, whereas boxing uses the torque of the body. The rationale is that a small, slim person will struggle to generate the same force through muscular techniques as they can through correct delivery of the body weight.
@checkingdude I am sceptical both to the effectivity of wing-chun type of punch and to the credibility of documentary series, whatever they say. And if I recall properly, Fight Science did an episode about punching and the punch of wushu master (similar to wing-chun) came last in terms of power. So there. And really, the power is not the fatal flaw of wing-chun punch. Have you considered that doing it properly - standing square and dropping shoulders - dramatically lowers reach and defense?
The amount of things you can pick up in this video to prove my point is hilarious. 1. He uses a smaller partner with short arms. 2. He gets the partner to stand square on with his feet together!!! Jesus Christ...my grandma could take me down if I stood with my feet together. 3. You don't even need to watch carefully that he does exactly what he tells you he isn't doing and that's using his shoulder. It clearly jumps out. 4. The explanation of longitudally elastic tendons is just priceless.
Danny Graham Respect for his teacher, strength of character and self-discipline. It's not very much fun getting punched by a skilled martial artist but one will have to learn to take strikes if they plan on conditioning themselves and/or competing.
+CombatFitness You missed the point, he wasn't bragging about the power, he was merely explaining that your joints are flexible. Sidenote: Any random hit can break someone's nose, the question is how efficient it is.
