Watching the Ip Man Forms Films will RUIN Your Wing Chun! 

Not sure anyone would base theirs on it tho? You must think you need to be a RN to know he is weak, fatigued, etc.? Don't really think a 20 something 30 something healthy person would take rest breaks to catch thier breath jsut because Ip Man does here? BTW, I'm an RN who works has worked on an ACE unit as well as geriatric hospice patients. Doesn't give authority nor you. I just used common sense.

well said.

He's referring the actual video tapes of ip man performing the forms not the Donnie yen movies lol

@@willtherealrustyschacklefo3812 Once I watched the entire video I worked out where I'd gone wrong by typing my comment early 🤣🙃

@@amk8411 oh okay I see lol. Was just checking

@@amk8411 but the movies are, really good movies tho Js

Watch them! They are fantastic

fantasy foo

@@IzzoWingChun is that not how you train internal power? The first skill is sinking/rooting/basic structure, the second skill is cultivate energy. The way you suggest is practicing muscle contraction. My takeway from your video is that wing chun should be external. No disrespect to anything you say. I just wanted to add my two cents.

Its an older style taught to Ip Man be Leung Bik. Leung Bik was Ip Mans second teacher. Leung Bik was an outcast of the Wing Chun World in that time. The system does work effectively especially in the modern world where everyone wants to take you to the ground.

@@deanmarshall1650 Interesting thank you.

Absolutely my friend.@@2gpowell

Which part of my acknowledgement, respecting the film only, bothers you so much

@@IzzoWingChun when the ads started i scrolled down and read some messages. I thought that this video was going to be very insulting towards Yip Man. When i finally saw the video I understand your point and see that you have shown him reverence where it's due. But for some reason everyone here, including the gentleman above, think that you are insulting him! Don't understand it..

You did not watch all the video did you.

Christ! Billy Lo!

I think you should do a lot of things

If you shadow box like Parkinson’s afflicted Ali you’re going to look very weird.

FR people don't understand that when trained like an esoteric art like at least 70 plus percent of Wing Chun schools of course it would be useless. But when trained like Boxing or Kickboxing it becomes a formidable defensive weapon. And if the practitioner is constantly building multiple defenses it's nearly impossible to beat if someone is trying to push in and engage you. It's not the best on straight forward offense however. But add stuff like Hooks, Uppercuts, and other techniques and it becomes formidable there too. Though it's a pretty straight on striking style overall like Bare Knuckle Boxing from the old days. Not the best when pushing for offense but when you need to defend yourself or someone else with someone pushing in on you. If doing it right you have over 100 defensive options many of which you can layer and stack at the same time. And these are bound to make your opponent make an opening or mistake.

It's mma, and Bruce Lee.... Bruce was like a modern day confucious or Buddha, getting to the raw facts of martial arts and philosophy... The style is < than the being ... So any one style is ineffective against the techniques that are most effective from 5 or 6 styles

I can surely help you with that question. Are ya still looking for an answer?

@@jestfullgremblim8002 sure. What’s your opinion on it?

@@GBlues1 alright then, i will start saying that i have practiced and studied all four of the arts you mentioned (Karate, Wing Chun, Aikido and MMA) along with others; but that is irrelevant as what i have done should really give me credibility, things should make sense by themselves, right? I just answered this before somebody asked me "how do you know x thing?" Anyways here we go! The first thing is that many of the traditional arts are actually NOT taught traditionally! Take for example Karate, basically no modern style of Karate uses the training methods of the Okinawan people, plus, "American Karate" was usually taught as just punching and kicking, not like the Japanese Karate which is often practiced today in America. So if training methods and techniques can change, many other things can change as well. For example, the explanation of the moves! Many moves in Karate, Wing Chun, Aikido amd other arts are explained in weird ways that make no sense: "Yes so in Karate we pull the opposite hand back when punching to create a flow of power that allows us to not be pushed" or "Yes, in Wing Chun we do Chi Sao to serve us as sparring and Chi Sao is a representation of how we fight" etc Today, we misinterpret moves, Izzo himself has mentioned how people do not understand Tan Sao, Fuk Sao or Bong Sao, which are literally the three main techniques of Wing Chun 😭 So how do you expect people to actually use the art? People do not understand what is supposed to be a concept/training tool and what is a literal move/technique: take for example the Shaolin Horse Stance and all of the flips and acrobatics they practice. Those are not supposed to be used in a fight, they know it, we know it; but if you blindly teach that to people and people keep relaying it for hundreds of years, they might misunderstand it. So yeah, we usually fail to understand the context of many martial arts. For example, Aikido (along with a Chinese martial art called Baguazhang) were originally taught to people that already were accomplished martial artists! So you already had to know how to fight and control your body in order to be accepted, so of course this people could use these arts, but if Aikido is your first art, you will fail greatly because you do not understand how a fight actually goes and Aikido lacks the tools to teach that to you (sparring!) Talking about context, both Karate and Wing Chun were originally weapon martial arts that also included empty hand techniques, did you know that?? And further more, these empty hand techniques were mostly grappling!!! If you were an Okinawan Karate practitioner, then you were a weapon user that was also an accomplished grappler and knew *some* striking (yeah, Karate wasn't so much about striking) and as we know today, grappling is very, very dominant! So of course that the old Okinawan masters were some monsters when fighting! Wing Chun people too, as many of them were skilled grapplers while their main concern was weapon work. So yeah, that Wing Chun stance that you see all the time was originally supposed to be used either with the Long Staff (called Luk dim bun gwan) or with the Butterfly swords (usually known as baat jaam do). We you see it like that, EVERY Wing Chun concept makes sense, and i mean all of them, you can investigate further about that, or you can ask me whatever you want to know about it. Furthermore, propaganda. Many used propaganda to make their styles look better. For example, Aikido people have never been really known for making their art work, only some of the very first students have (and like i told you, they already were skilled martial artists), and btw, Aikido is ALSO a weapon martial art 🤣🤣🤣 yeah, it's funny how almost every Martial art that "doesn't work", usually is a martial art made for something but that people want to use for something else, usually for grappling/weapons into striking. That list would include martial arts like Silat, Tajiquan (Taichi), Xing Yi Quan, Bajiquan, the Animal Kung Fu Styles, etc. All of those are either a weapon or grappling (or both) martial art that included some striking, because you have to remember that those arts were not made for sport. What i mean by this is that you can refrain from teaching kicks in Boxing because kicks are not allowed in Boxing matches. But if you make a martial arts that is made for war or just defending yourself/general fighting; then you cannot let anything unchecked, you have to teach punching, kicking, grappling, joint locks, weapon stuff, etc. You have to do that even if your expertise is something else! (Similar to how many Taichi masters started teaching striking even tho their strenght was grappling and weapons) so yeah i think that i really made this too long, i apologize. Ask me anything else, i have studied a LOT about martial arts, i love talking about them. I can also answer about other topics, i'll be here for ya

@@GBlues1 i really went overboard with my answer, didn't it? 😭😭

I study Hop Ga under Sifu Dennis Apeles, he inherited the Hop Gar /White crane school of Cheuk Tse, one of the most respected men in San Francisco in the past 100 years. I also studied under Bucksam Kong’s Siu lum pai Kung fu association in the 90s and we’d hear a lot of stories of Gung Fu instructors capitalizing on Americas fascination with wing chun and teaching them bullshit fighting applications.

Anyone who uses "hidden" in their teachings is a fruad.

@@IzzoWingChun oh in that case, if I'm not mistaken, they don't use the word hidden. That's just me saying it. But you also have the ability to see for yourself instead of just telling me that...

I wish you could comprehend that this has nothing to do with pace or intent, but mimicking him.

did you watch the video?

Ithink what izzo means is that ip man is weaker in that state because of his disease and he can't do a faster with slower pace of wing chun in stance, strikes, and positioning. What he means is don't do wing Chun in slower just like ip man do in this video. because it never works in real life, the only reason why ip man do that slower pace is for people to practice it's stance positioning and strikes defense. But also if you observer ip man is extremely weak in that point that he's trying hard to do the form without enough energy left to his movements.

​@@IzzoWingChuncorrect me if I'm wrong

There are a lot of schools who change the sequences or even the movements a bit differently. But as long as the concepts are there, it matters.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

You should try it at all different speeds and tensions..."fixed" stance, rising and falling stance...etc. You paid your money, you learned it, explore it because its now yours

@@derek3136 1,000,000%!

Only one section is to be performed slow. When you get to the biu jee you will be able to understand. Ask sifu Izzo.

Not to my understanding.... 1st section is building up energy, 2nd section is releasing it!, 3rd section is a mix of the two...........so it's not all supposed to be completely slow. To my understanding this is about training muscle memory to deliver power and speed when it's needed. SLT is a tool for a purpose and like any tool it needs to be understood to gain any benefit.