Teapot
Orange Belt
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I have zero experience in Wing Chun. I have a few questions:
Does Wing Chun have “Hooks”? I’m broadly just asking if it has a strike that has a rounded trajectory. I ask this because my understanding is that Wing Chun has a philosophy that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line – hence their iconic straight punches.
If the answer is yes, my follow-up questions would be:
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But then I see...
I have seen videos where the practitioner demonstrates a "hook"... but it's unclear to me that came from their curriculum or if they just added it in from an external source such as Boxing.
Does Wing Chun have “Hooks”? I’m broadly just asking if it has a strike that has a rounded trajectory. I ask this because my understanding is that Wing Chun has a philosophy that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line – hence their iconic straight punches.
If the answer is yes, my follow-up questions would be:
- Is this practiced in the form? Can you locate it for me in which form it’s in?
- And how do you reconcile having this toolkit while also emphasizing the philosophy of the shortest distance being a straight line?
But then I see...
I have seen videos where the practitioner demonstrates a "hook"... but it's unclear to me that came from their curriculum or if they just added it in from an external source such as Boxing.