How YouTube has Destroyed Wing Chun 

Thanks for the breakdown, wing chun has definitely gotten a bad rap from the videos being shown lately! I believe it is the ignorance of someone to dis it without ever experiencing the training! Sifu Fong is the real deal, Sifu Adam is also the real deal! I am a student of Sifu Fong, he is 74 right now still teaching. I know his back ground, he is a fighter, fought on the rooftops in Hong Kong before coming to America, and has a similar story to that of Sigung Bruce Lee! Sifu Fong has full instructorship in Judo, Kali, Muy Thai, BJJ, JKD/Jun Fan and list goes on! So when these keyboard warriors start talking smack against Sifu, I know it’s just words. Every once in a while I’ll tell these keyboard warriors to go to the school and challenge him and always crickets after that! Here’s a story from the school….I started May 5th 1999 with Sifu, a friend told me there’s a school down the road that teaches Bruce Lee style martial arts and they have wooden dummies you should go check it out! So I went, best decision I’ve ever made. So In the beginning we learned the basic drills and first form you know the regular stuff then about six months in before the class started we put down the matts. I figured we are having a safer cushion for training and yes that’s true, but what really went on is how to apply Wing Chun to grappling and take downs and ground control! We did wing chun grappling and applying wing chun on the ground! For years this went on and I can honestly say it has changed the way I look at Wing Chun, it opened my eyes to more than just standing attacks, it showed me you must be a way more rounded fighter than just pak sao, lop sao, sot sao, deem jern, Wong jern. You’re not always facing a Wing Chun guy, you could be up against a grappler, wrestler, or just a person that knows nothing but could be tough as nails. Sifu is amazing, but you should have been there 20 years ago he was phenomenal! Thanks again for sharing the breakdown 🙏🏻

I’ve done bjj for many years but I respect all traditional arts because I don’t want to go on the ground on the streets.

Thanks for this video Sifu Izzo. Those that mock Wing Chun have never studied under a good teacher. It’s not for sport completion it’s for self defense in a real real-time street situation. For those of us who have studied we see the beauty and efficiency of these drills and demonstrations. One just has to take the time, learn the art, and heaven forbid if they find themselves in an altercation they’ll truly understand that Wing Chun is the truth. Great video thanks a lot. I’m glad to see you back on the tube. Please keep up the good work😊

Was curious as to why you say the only time to interact with your art is via self defense. I may be paraphrasing however that is what I heard. Glove up if you want, the rest of us are going to simply defend ourselves. So, how can that be accomplished without real application? Although not real situation, competition does provide experience, environment, confidence, etc. I get training in your own element/ school is necessary, but where is the uncomfortable reality of different individuals, actual attack, timing distance? As a competitor and street survivor, can't really relate to being able to perform without actual experience. Truly would like to hear your position on this.

Izzo,in your opinion what is the difference amongst body guards and bouncers and street fighters? Is there such a thing as body guard martial art? What would be the difference for all yhise people who start their career as special forces and fbi or cia personell and are employed as body guards for VIP..guns aside?

Adam Chan is legit.

I'm glad you used the word "showcasing" for Francis Fong's video -- that's exactly what it is. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every art -- even the hard core ones -- does that. That's how you inspire new students. That's how you demonstrate concepts. That's how you relax and enjoy the art. Francis Fong has the best hands I've ever scene and I've learned a ton from Kevin Lee's vids. If the viewer is stupid enough to villify it as an unrealistic technique or whatever, then that is on the viewer. Not everyone is going to get Wing Chun -- that's ok.

The same geniuses that see a wing chin drill and say "nobody does that in real life" are the same geniuses that for some reason don't ask a boxer why they are hitting the bag, since nobody stands still like a bag in real life.

I'm not a Wing Chun guy, and even I can see that it's a drill. Although, I get what you're saying. Normal folk would just look at this and see this as a bad rep for Wing Chun. "This isn't how you should do it, I can just punch the guy after slapping my arm, I'll just take down his legs and choke him on the ground, Pfffttt Sweep go brrr," and all that comes along with it. Wing Chun probably isn't good for the Shorts, but as stand alone videos.

I don’t train wing chun, but you are right it’s a whole lot of bullying on the internet.

Well said sir, drills are to teach muscle memory, in a real fight a good Wing Chun exponent would try to finish the fight with one move! ! am 69 now and started Wing Chun under Sifu Joseph Cheng in the UK as a 16 yr old, I did it for 15yrs and then trained in TKD up to 3rd dan. They say when presented with danger in a real fight you automatically return to the first art you trained in. I am blessed in the fact I have only had to defend myself once in all this time and it was 5yrs after I finished Wing Chun(The school closed in my town in northern England) For some reason a guy twice my size attacked me, he obviously was not trained as he charged at me and threw a right hook haymaker, seeing it coming I stepped forward to enable my bodyweight to work for me at the same time blocking his punch with a left arm tan sau whilst twisting my right hip punched him at the same time utilising the upward twist at the end of the punch that sifu Cheng drilled into us. I caught him on the cheekbone and I swear to god he stopped dead, took three steps back and fell down, as he tried to rise his cheekbone immediately swelled up to the size of a chickens egg and he did not come at me again, I am not proud of this as I believe I broke his cheekbone but it was something I had little choice in, My point is I had been drilled in this movement thousands of times and when I needed it, it worked, one move with several of my bodyparts involved in synchronicity, Pure Wing Chun!

To me, Wing Chun is a system, MMA is a collection of techniques. Definitely not saying MMA doesn't work, it does. But if you don't train like you are actually gonna fight, then it becomes Krav Maga. No hate on Krav Maga, I think it can be excellent. Both, being a collection of things means that one piece doesn't build on another, so you can pick and chose to a certain extent what you want. Wing Chun is a system, one part builds on another. If you don't have a good understanding, grasp and skill in siu lim tau, you will not get much out of the wooden dummy. Meaning, as Dominic says here, you gotta put in the time. Its somewhat akin to just using an app on your app, vs being able to build one. Not related but true; good luck practicing mma to a level it needs to be done at, over 60+ years old. Of course there are those who can, but not most. Whereas most could still do wing chun at that age, effectively. In some ways better than a young person, if the older person has any inkling who they are, what they can and cannot do.

Wing Chun is a beautiful and devastating art and doesn't deserve the attacks it gets by the ignorant. I think it's true that the reason for this is the show casing, in that, it doesn't appeal to the lower levels of fighting appreciation you have in the MMA fraternity. However, Wing Chun students do need to practise their skills against NON Wing Chun opponents who are trying to hit them, in order to properly hone those skills for fighting. Something is missing in modern Wing Chun training as with most Martial Arts, today.

I studied Wing Chun for 6 years under Buddy Wu. Who can fight! He studied under Ho Kam Ming. The last 5 months I started boxing. You would be amazed how Wing Chun can actually work in the boxing ring. At 50 years old I am sparring with kids half my age, and doing very well. Wing Chun is not just a great art, but a way of life. Thanks for another awesome video!

I also love Adam's videos. Been doing wing Chun for over 35 years and I still learn a lot from his academy online. Even from the basics.... I like he always demonstrates the concepts against pressure before explaining them.

Everyone has become a critic on social media. People don’t understand that Wing Chun & MMA have differences purposes. People like Joe Rogan is a total tool & a hypocrite

Francis Front has been around for decades. He’s a “gold standard” type of instructor. Great WC, second to none on understanding the use of structure, phenomenal power. Also good at FMA, Thai Boxing, and grappling. The doubters should go train with him. If he wasn’t 70 I’d say for them to go fight him, video it, and please post it for our education.

Tik Tok is even worse than RU-vid with the short videos. Everything is dumbed down and is more for entertainment value than for education purposes. I love the videos of both Francis Fong and Adam Chan, but I've been training wing chun for 7 years, not your typical outside viewer. I also agree with you that effective wing chun won't look like wing chun in an actually fight. You'll see the main concepts of the art: occupying the opponent's center, getting your opponent off-balance, keeping your elbows down, and attacking the opponent's core vs chasing hands (ie. what the wooden dummy teaches you). I think the end of the Chum Kiu form with the pivot and pressing hand is also the anti-grappling concept. The pressing hand can just as easily be a jum sau to control the opponents core/head. Sometimes you need to add footwork depending on how aggressive the shoot is.

How is Master Tu Tengyao viewed by a 'basic MMA' bro?

You nailed it, this is a huge problem in martial arts in general; most self-proclaimed martial artists these days literally don't understand the function of the more old-school development drills, if they've even learned them...and then they talk down to knowledgeable teachers and practitioners based on watching videos they didn't understand.

Wonderful video, and rightly so what is being said about Wing Chun in this context about the uneducated viewer making inaccurate judgments based solely on what they see in bits and pieces on RU-vid, can be held true with a number of different arts, in which the practitioners themselves both recognize the context of the drills or techniques being demonstrated for educational purposes, and yet know the arts work from having used them for their intended purposes. No art is immune from bad misunderstood PR. One could even do this with MMA, by taking just a short clip of any single drill they do (like punching a speed bag or shadowboxing) and then show a video of an attempted armed robbery, claiming that based upon the video clip, MMA is completely useless in self defense situations and can't teach a person how to fight (because the mugger is not going to just stand there and let you treat them like a speed bag). And while I been involved in martial arts since the late 70s, and have had the opportunities to train in various combative sports methods, when it comes to violent altercations on the street, away from a sporting environment, I will take my more extensive training in traditional battlefield oriented martia arts anyday over combative sport martial arts. No disrespect meant for those who do combative sports if that's their thing, but it's not mine and was never my main goal or focus.

I am sort of glad that traditional martial arts aren't as popular. I mean seeing a jujitsu sign on every block makes me sick. It is leaving all these people out that go to work and talk about how great they are with MMA.

Bjj People shit on chi sao and than proceed to drill for underhooks... Boxing people shit on chi sao and then proceed to hit the spees bag... Mma guys shit on chi sao and then proceed to drill underhooks and the speed bag None of these drills are sparring or real fighting🤷‍♂️

Good content Izzo. Enjoying all your videos lately. I've been training wc for over 10 years. Love it.

Is this the best, no, you tell me. I cannot invest the time in training in this art. I cannot tell you if Ving tsun is the best, only you can discover if it's the best,...For you. MMA, has rules, etc.. Gung Fu is limitless, At the end of the day there are no trophies, no fame, no ultimate fighter status. MMA is for today, Gung Fu is for life. Had many different teachers in this art, and in other arts, i practice this art everyday. I love it. Kids love UFC, this is fine, in my humble opinion it's scripted entertainment, Opsie, did i expose something.

1:54 you might know several martial artists that disagree with that statement, but maybe go listen to some actual warriors like jocko willink and see what they have to say about the topic. I'd rather listen to someone who understands about the reality of combat and fighting for your life, than someone who gets butt hurt when the thing they have chosen to dedicate a significant portion of their time to, gets shown to be suboptimal

Not YT has destroyed Wing Chun, chunners themselves have. You complain about MMA, BJJ, Muay Thai or boxing being considered the standard for functional fighting and training. Because they prove themselves under "alive" conditions. They step up and fight. All wing chun ever does is sticky hands, complain, loudmouth eath other, make threats, have silly excuses about "street fighting only" and finally get their behind kicked hard in any serious fight. MMA and pre MMA UFC or Battlecade Extreme turned Wing Chun on their head in seconds. Benetau vs Cancio, Zinoview vs Faulkner, list goes on. And here you still complain and complain. There never was anyone who could make chi sao sticky hands and spring loaded bong sao tan sao lop sao work in a real fight.

You touched on a point, but I feel like you missed it. Wing Chun fighters SHOULD compete more. That's exactly what would change people's perception of the style. BJJ drill videos get the same type of comments. But because BJJ is well represented in sports (MMA etc.), people have trust in the style's effectiveness. If the world had more dudes Qi La La putting themselves out there, Wing Chun would be right up there with all the other popular martial arts. Just stop saying 'If you see Wing Chun working, it's not good Wing Chun', because that's definitely bs.

RU-vid has ruined all the martial arts, your points are valuable and very sound . However all martial arts have taken a beating from RU-vid , why? Because it takes no time and patience to shove shit up here , however if you wish to explain a real form in real time context . No one here is going to be interested. Why because trying to learn from RU-vid means you're too lazy to go to a class for two hours every evening or morning Nosce te ipsum Tim

Standing square, flat footed, chin high linear footwork, keeps getting destroyed by boxers and mma fighters you can keep it.

The bonus footage was awesome. More words, not needed. Hands down, perfection.

My sifu used to say the same thing it's not something to be seen it's to be experienced in his answer will forever thing was I hit you a block I hit you remove I hit you try to hit me I hit you Wing Chun its core is I hit you

100 Percent! Simple, to the point. Very wing chun.

We're quoting Bruce Lee now?🤣

Anderson Silva made Wing Chun work in the UFC

i did a seminar with francis fong for one day.....for a 70 year old man his speed was fast.

I dont think kevin lee can use wing chun to fight yet. the punch is still isnt strong at all

Desgraciadamente, las artes marciales tradicionales no sirven para defenderse de una pelea callejera

Good stuff!! It's exactly what I tell all "un -trained" people...stay simple, don't cower, go in(!) and strike the "soft" spots...eyes...throat...equipment locker!!!

YES - BRUCE LEE was correct... and you are talking about what I call- and others call MATRIXING the art-- throw out the TRASH and go for the MOST efficient of each art... and it WORKS.. GREAT!!! I have high ranking black belts in 5 arts- one of which is WING CHUN... plus kenpo, hapkido, aikido- etc.. and YOU"RE RIGHT-- exactly!!!!!

Ok Nice explanation now how can you know that wing chun works in real life ?

I'm seeing a disturbing trend amongst guys who've moved in the "combatives" direction and away from the "traditional" martial arts. It's a movement that is becoming very reductive in terms of how we interpret Kung Fu forms and application. The idea that kung Fu is 90% wrestling. If people are intending add on Kung Fu techniques to their wrestling that's one thing. The problem is the impetus to retroactively view traditional martial arts through a modern combatives/MMA lens. Anyone who's experienced the chaos of an altercation and can't see the usefulness of a wing Chun or any Kung Fu technique is simply looking at sport fighting and "pressure testing"(which by the way is still in a controlled environment) simply doesn't want to understand context.

Sifu Fong and Kevin are awesome

Unfortunately, wing chun isn’t effective. Even the amazing technique shown in the video is useless. It sounds really good and scientific, but in practice it fails.

MMA guys have a point tho. Why do fighters don't apply Wing Chun if it's economical and effective? This question can be done for several martial arts, and I have not been able to insert it yet

What the un-knowing eye sees and even a high ranking skilled martial artist has never felt well let me put it this way when wing chun was invented in it's early years it wasn't perfect at some point many kung-fu masters from different fighting systems across China gathered together deconstructed the style fixed and altered it's week and lacking parts and rebuilt it this new deadly and efficient way of fighting eventually became illegal to train in unless you were police or military for some years, people that train in external arts and want to evolve their skills into internal arts or delve into a more scientific way of fighting that uses physics ergonomics and a deeper way of dealing with combat problems can eventually find something like wing chun or maybe Tai Chi Chuan and realize how much they were missing wing chun won't make you a devastating human weapon in a short period of time like boxing Muay Thai or jiu-jitsu may and without the foundation developed over years even decades under your feet Wing Chun techniques seem like they don't work I believe this is were the confusion comes from wing chun is a truly powerful and devastating way of dealing with violence but it takes time patience and dedication to perform correctly

Unfortunately there are only a few very effective fighting styles. Traditional Martial Arts...all of them, are a hobby, understand what you are doing. When people talk about a 'devastating' art I think you're missing the point. Traditional arts offer great benefits,and are beautiful, but if you intend to be a warrior and be as said here..a lot...be 'devastating'...join the army and try to make it into special forces. (not me..just to be clear. Hahaha) It's not the 'art' it's the individual. That's my perspective after 40 years of training.

I rarely like to post comments but would like to offer this observation or suggestion both opponents have to hands, elbows, knees, legs, feet and head. They get into a fight and one person is the perceived winner and someone asks what techniques did you use to win the fight that’s win the problem starts. I grew up street fighting which had boxing, tripping, sucker punching, biting, kicking wrestling you name it. I never felt a need to figure out what to call it but only glad to go home alive.

its bullshit and i am a wing chun guy

thank you for your cooperation But you are wrong with the "closing the bridge" topic (2° vídeo analyze). That doesn't work. You are not static.

It's that flow between the hard and soft.

I do a thing in class when teaching drills to new students , kind of a skit with an advanced student where we call each other names , push each other then break into Hubud or some other drill really angry like . "One of these chops is going to get through asshole!"

True Wing Chun has no techniques…

Absolute facts. Have followed Adam and yourself for quite a while. And Sifu Fong as well. This is the thing people don't understand - no stopping - when you have trained it properly.

The problem also is that you have wing Chung guys getting their asses kicked by regular fighters on you tube. Like the one mma guy from china just tearing up these wing chun fighters exposing that wing chun is not good enough for a fight by itself. You need other skills to make it effective in a street fight self defense situation. And show that to the audience.

Great vid Sifu, I was wondering, would you maybe have a look at Master Emin Bozstepes ground work, and his Wing Chun, in general, really beautiful.

I’ve trained with Sifu Fong in seminars. He’s astounding and lethal.

1:52 MMA is competition. Fighting for self defense is different. 💯🙏

We go through the same "MMA will kill you" nonsense in Choy Li Fut too.

You can solve this issue by open challenge like gracies did, its the only way to prove your point. Call out all world class wrestlers, jiu jitsu, muay thai, duch kickboxing, judo and mma in general against world top wing chun and jkd masters. Im sicking tired of this bullshit. Sancioned open bare knuckle challenge to getting over with this once for all.

A wing chun practitioner's idea of "fast hands" is a little different from an inexperienced person's.

Wing Chun is grappling & trapping - just done standing up !

when sifu fong threw that spinning back elbow kevin's face is in genuine surprise and fear its hilarious lol. BTW these guys are fkn great fighters as u say. 100%

I'm not a wing Chun practitioner but, I never disrespect any art, Wing Chun was actually created by a Woman. Since ladies would get grabbed and assaulted by men, she created the art to help women. That's why it's a close-quarter combat art. Men using wing Chun maybe not be as effective as MMA, but a woman who is skilled using wing Chun, is a woman not to be messed with in close quarters. No disrespect at all.

I've been practicing martial arts for 45 years. I've practiced kung fu for thirty years, taught Wing Chun kung fu and worked as a bouncer for six years. I don't care what's said online, and I respectfully suggest that no-one else should care either.

Have you critiqued Master Wong channel. It’s huge for years. Just wondering your opinion

For some one that hates Bruce Lee, looks like you complimented on his theory of simplicity.

My sifu's favorite advice from his sifu, and this speaks to I believe the core of your argument, is that all we want out of life is a fist sized hole in our opponent's defense. That's it. Once that's found, capitalize. Nothing more is required.

Adam Chan is my favorite Wing Chun RU-vid instructor. I pretty much just stick to his videos. My Wing Chun Si Hings promote the Francis Fong videos a lot and I have tried to watch a few but it is typical just minutes of super fast flippity / floppity chi sao which isn't of interest to me. I am kind of the anti-Chi Sao. But I love the way that Adam Chan expresses Wing Chun.

I would love to see more wing chun vs other styles in youtube videos. Some youtube channels show fighting footage like fighting commentary which is great but I would like to see some more demonstration videos of sparring wing chun vs boxing or kickboxing from the bigger wing chun youtube channels as I feel this is more realistic of what you would experience in a real fight.

The wisdom of yraditional maryial arts is aleays given. All techniques are nothing else,as you also say,than the mere alphabet of the sustem,in order to make words....verbs,adjectives,adverbs and sentences...and maybe short essays... All 1,2,3 steps to a defence are nothing else than possibile answers to a A..to B...to C scenario...like answers to "what if ..i am faced with a...b..or c situation".. All martial arts strive for the shortest and quickest stopping , neutralizing technique... Any bad student....iss a good student showing us things to cover next time out of our arsenal.... A bad medical doctor doesnt do away with the science of medicine.... So any bad expinent kf any martial arts system doesnt do away with the martial art itself. A reall fight is not a mma...cause mma is still a ruled agreement. The martial arts...the body self defence arts came out of chaotic situations..where its either you or the other . We only het a glimpse....of what were the martial arts before the humanity...international courts and humane fair treatment rose in the civilised world ...civil being the Rule of Justice of the governing elite and their servants in the name of people....

Seems nowday's some want to skip the years of hard work to gain the grace and skill of wing Chun masters. Yes we see it, feel it and understand what is going on and unfortunately those untrained in Wing Chun are unjustly critical.

Knowledge is power.

Also there is a ton of kevin lee's sparring footage online, you literally never see anything that looks remotely similar to what you see in the wing chun training videos.

Nahh... you just can't win with ignoramuses, Izzo... "Yeah,... but how many MMA championships has Adam Chan won ?..." 😄

Adam Chan is the Guv'nor, would loved to have been taught by him.

Wow thank you so much for explaining this concept in detail and great way possible I am wing chun practitioner in NYC under a great Sifu and this is way this art form should be Thanks 😊

This Adam Chan video is demonstrating drilling fist from Hsing I! Hsing I is Wing Chun perfection?

That's because youtube is full of "professionals" who think they can fight because they watched a guy lunge at another guy's legs in a ufc fight 😂

I think the martial arts community and other martial artists did more to hurt certain arts than arm chairs. The fake RU-vid experts or MMA fighters trashing an art saying it’s never been used in the octagon. Many MMA fighters and coaches like Erik Paulson, Gene Lebell, Gokor, Greg Nelson, Roy Nelson, etc train and trained in various arts not just boxing, kickboxing, etc

The ancient Gung Fu technique known as the Purple Nurple is the perfect defense against BJJ cuddlers. In the words of Pasta Senpai... "It hurts so bad that they have to use drugs, but they ENJOYEE IT!"

Wasn't that drilling fist Hsing I Chuan? I would love to hear your opinions on Hsing I. Only his videos though. Alot of paper Hsing I put there.

You know Adam Chan is teaching drilling fist from Hsing I, he does both. The best Wing Chun is Hsing I. Love your channel.

A lot of wing videos on RU-vid are trash , there are some real ones who show you the tip of the ice burg - I have to give a recognition to my SIFU Grand master Steve lee swift who has actually trained with both of ip man’s sons , thank you SIFU and blessing for sharing the real traditional wing chun

maybe you can do a clip about philipp bayer?

"This is just a drill!" Ok... so where are the videos of the fights?

9 - reasons Wing chun is misunderstood: 1) Few Sifu’s (running a business) want to admit the system’s limitations. Everyone who did wing chun well (namely bruce lee and a few others) figured out you have to mix it with other martial arts concepts for it to truly blossom. It’s great for a foundational martial art but no martial art is the end all be all art. 2) So you (the fighter )have to grow. This is why bruce became a mixed martial artist. The system doesn't account for distance fighting very well. What if you can't "bridge the gap" and have to fight at a distance. For instance, the opponent strikes hard and fast and is tall with long limbs like a larger tie kwando master ?? What then? Adaptation may = Other martial arts. 3) Chi Sao is an insider's game MAINLY for the purpose of cultivating a hand sensitivity attribute. Aside from a few trapping hand concepts THATS IT. It is widely misrepresented by both students and sifus for reasons beyond real fight application. Noo one can SEE your chi sao hand sinsitive attributes improving on youtube. Why would anyone ever put it on film? You can’t master it from videos. You have to have an opponent to do it with to even get it. The common viewer has no idea whats going on. 4) Too many unskilled students have tried to apply chi sao in real fight situations where it didn't work making it seem worthless to viewers. 5) trapping hands is not something done for a prolonged time periods and in multiple variations all in one go but in the movies and on film IT IS SPECTACULARIZED that way. no one is going to stand there, in a real fight, and let you mess around with their hands at a dangerously close distance where reaction time (in your case )is impossible if they were to just strike you. There is an art and science to even pulling it off. 6) Most people who were good at Wing Chun had some abnormal training advantage or insight into the art like IP man( who actually WAS the first bruce lee). He was a real living legend (without hollywood) in his town and other parts of China due to his uncommon hand speed. If you look back at his si lim toa videos and dig deep into some research on him you may find he had prolong sessions of doing the “3 prayers of budda” (an exercise which naturally enhances your reflexes and hand speed). He also had extreme training regiments. As for abnormal training advantage, that large african mma fighter guy - ongwassi (I probably spelled it wrong). He was just big and athletic and the advantage of the ‘chain punching’ (woon lan qwoon) made him a formidable fighter. 7) Wing Chun has many boxing concepts already in it. Hence, as it is known as ‘chinese boxing’. However, those concepts are still not as advanced as a professional boxer's skills. This is why bruce less adapted his art's deficiencies by mixing in some western boxing concepts. That combination made him a formidable fighter (growth). Not adapting the art makes wing chun fighters look ridiculous when they go against mma or boxing guys who use simple boxing techniques to get them out the way. However, if they were to put the boxer in the wing chun guys world like a phone both for instance , they might have a serious problem. 8) Chi Jerk is rarely taught in wing chun. WHY NOT?? 9) Different lineages teach different things. Some things are left out in one lineage that may be present in another, So, if you really want in-depth knowledge into wing chun you may have to study it from multiple lineages. Who has that type of time? In Summ, Proper Understanding of Wing Chun’s advantages and disadvantages may lead to effective Wing Chun Training. Take Care

Could you make a video on practical wing chun from Sifu Wan kam leung. Gives your thoughts on the style.

Take Karatah, and why the hell did you spill McCafe HOT COFFEE at the drive-thru counter ON ME, buddy!,, ! And then take Wing Chun we lets drink Tea like kind with Yipman Mst.

Basic kung-fu method is 1 move direct and hit and kill. No fancy 1 2 3 4 techniques and limp opponents. Bang, down, next, keep going. 5, 10 people. Ppl get hung up and dancing or circling hands for ages.

If I may put WC on the back burner for a sec(no disrespect intended) and offer an opinion about the larger issue of the UFC. Isn't it unfortunate that the top brass who make the UFC don't allow the top level martial marts sifus(regardless of style) to allow their FULL repertoire of techniques? 🤔 And the majority of these "masters" are really just low level practitioners? 🤔

I actually agree with a lot of the criticism simply because it's very common for schools to teach drilling as fighting. That wing chun doesn't work, but it's unfortunately probably the most commonly taught way.

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So studied in boxing, karate and wing-chun. Out of the three WC is the least effective by itself. Meaning if I could only learn 1 martial art WC would not be my choice. Now, if you are looking to teach a discipline to someone for self-defense, who knows no other martial art, like a extreme green person, WC would be the fastest/simplest to teach, and I dont mean that in a bad way. It has technique that is built in "dummy proof" meaning it takes less athleticism or less of a fighting talent to make it useful to the average joe. Once again, it's not a bad thing. Now that being said, the individual who I study WC under was just super dangerous, but he was suuuuuper athletic and new other disciplines and would used them at will.

It would be so interesting for you and Nima King to exchange knowledge. Seems like he might challenge your view of Wing Chun quite a bit and I'm curious about your opinion on what he shares of the teachings of his sifu.

There's tons of crap Wing Chun out there and much of it doesn't abide by the concepts of the art.. I don't personally think Izzo knows the difference.. No good Wing Chun drills should be doing stupid moves that will never and could never happen in a fight.. The techniques trained can and should be used in a fight.. If you're saying no they shouldn't then you're ignorant of basic sport science.. The basic tools and techniques in the art were intended to be used and that's why they are trained in addition to attribute development... I have seen Izzo playing around with low level Wing Chun people with little experience and he can NOT hold his own let alone blow them away as I have seen many other good people do... Adam Chan is good, there are many who are good and there are many who suck, like Mike Lee... There are good basics and there are crap basics.. If you don't have the basics, understand how to use WIng Chun tools and break and control structure and balance you don't have good Wing Chun and that's that.. Sorry not sorry... Mike Lee has said many times that classical wing chun is not useful in modern fighting as is and must be adapted into conventional grappling or boxing... If you can't use your art in fighting then do another art... If you don't have good basics and can't blow away a low level Wing Chun guy as a 20+ year teacher you suck -- go find another teacher or do another art and STFU.... Adam knows his shit, Mike Doesn't... Another guy you can check out is Keith Mazza, he does drills that are a mile away and uses 5 moves while the other guy stands there with his hand extended -- it's slap happy long range pattycake which is exactly what Wing Chun is not... it's nonsense and no decent drill operates that way.. Classical wing chun drills emphasize instant attack/defense and control while breaking structure and if you are not doing that you are not doing the art...and you probably suck....

I think the real issue is the viewer (like any of us) NOT being able to distinguish someone marketing their Wing Chun school on youtube from somepne showing wing chun in real fight. It’s not really a complex issue. All these sifus are obviously marketing their schools when they show these unrealistic drills. You can't let the comments get to you bro. People who aren’t in it are not going to get it especially when most who are in it do it wrong or don’t understand its limitations. Because of THAT Wing chun has always had a bad rap for execution because the common practitioner simply doesn't do it very well NOR understand it well. Even before youtube this was always an issue. Plus, Bruce lee's execution gave wing chun a reputation that is seldomly lived up to by the average practitioner. So, its like to opposite images of wing chun on film and by the average practitioner that is one reason for confusing everyone.

I think boxing is getting into same problem... 20sec videos of guys doing flashy drills on pads

I'm member of the Francis Fong Academy awesome school, great instructors and Sifu Fong is awesome!.

Best vid explaining Wing Chun so far. Thanks Izzo for the solid info as always.