Do you strive to make your Wing Chun ability as close to your forms and what is considered "perfect" and "correct" Wing Chun for your lineage?
Do you work to make your fighting ability completely adaptable but what many would consider sloppy or bad technique?
Or maybe a mixture of both influences. <--middle road very WC-like.
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What is the main focus in your training? To make your fighting energy and positions as close to your relaxed energy and positions from Siu Nim Tao? Or maybe to use the Wing Chun and adapt it with other techniques because "it works"?
Most would probably say both but what which is most important?
Why, and is this your view or one shared by your Sifu and school?
Last edited by Vyvial; 10-12-2003 at 02:51 PM.
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If it isn't practical, then it sure as h3ll can't be perfect.
Performance overrides precision.
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Maybe precision becomes perfection?
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I put my "X" on "A"
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I did not mark an x- because there several other very good choices not listed.
Strive for perfection in form. Strive for excellence in chi sao. Strive for learning best applications of those two to circumstances.
Strictly speaking that goes beyond those three choices. Hence i pass!
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The question relates to applied Wing Chun. Wing Chun in realistic application, not in practice or in training (i.e. Chi Sau) <-- that's a whole other disagreement in itself we could have.
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Thanks, as a mac user that is even more funny to me.
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I agree with Joy here. No hard fast rules, just principles to be your compass.
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I agree with that agreement!
Technique doesnt have any value. Its whats behind it that counts.
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Originally posted by Vyvial
Thanks, as a mac user that is even more funny to me.
-Michel.
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All training has to be precise!
We practice perfect then we shake it out with hard Chi Sao and Gor Sao sparring.
What works stays, what doesn't work goes, what causes us to falter needs more work.
Precision, Adaptation and Hard Training
David
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I choose middle of the road.
However, since the Ideal of Wing Chun is protection and Martial skill(combat ability) If it fails you in reality then obviously somewhere your form is bad.
Just because you thought it was precise doesnt mean it was so, not if it failed the "acid test".
As we all agree the principles are sound, success lays in proper appilication and failure lays in improper application.
Perfection is Eaternal, The Maxim is Persistence.
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I try to be as brutally strict to the system as I can.
With that in mind, let me say that our system has Fau Kiu, or wandering stages in every aspect of our learning, where we try to cover as best as we can the random factors and limitations that come from our human experience in an imperfect realitiy.
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