futsaowingchun
Black Belt
Politics and ego in Wing Chun? who woulda thunk it?
it happens..but if you can get past it you will learn alot.
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Politics and ego in Wing Chun? who woulda thunk it?
it happens..but if you can get past it you will learn alot.
Not only politics and ego. There is the thing about time management and having a wife claiming she wants some hours of your time as well.
Otherwise I would spend a lot of time now learning what sets WSLVT apart from my own lineage. Granted of course I could cut some hours from my own training at this point but that is a very tough thing to do. I do not want to miss any training, addicted as I am to training itself.
What lineage do you come from? No matter what lineage all have the same basic foundation.
What lineage do you come from? No matter what lineage all have the same basic foundation.
years ago i saw a video of german wing chun or ving tsun guys that really crashed a school of the other style. just got in, smaller people there ran around like scared up chickens and the big guy who came in began to slap people there. wtf? why? because an other style? to show that the big guy is a hero at b*tch slapping? i don't get such stuff and the hating between wing chun styles. just idiotic and embarrassing and dragging the whole art through the mire.
Don't get it? The simple answer is ego and money.
These attitudes were encouraged by self-interested instructors trying to build a rep and make money by promoting their particular brand or flavor of WC. Their students often buy into this brainwashing and actually believe that they have the one "true and authentic" system. Then they go out on the internet and bad-mouth everybody else. And rarely somebody actually mounts a challenge, ...but that's pretty uncommon in today's world.
Nowadays, we have other venues for actually testing your stuff, and most of the true-believer types don't fare so well there.
What lineage do you come from? No matter what lineage all have the same basic foundation.
Right, next month. Sometimes my mind says one thing and my hands type something else.
...and yes I meant Jake. I haven't heard from him in a long time. He should come too.
Hi Steve, it's been a few months. Any plans to go this month? I think that would be on the 20th?
Hey guys it's been a while. I'm still around and still training DTE....Technically I'm a closed door private student.. Sounds so romantic and mystical doesn't it? ..Right, next month. Sometimes my mind says one thing and my hands type something else.
...and yes I meant Jake. I haven't heard from him in a long time. He should come too.
No disrespect but..IDK they may not like the DTE chi sau I'm used to doing now? I'll probably get the whole "that's not wing chun" line?... But I'm open to just roll and take it easy until the b slapping starts. After all for us chi sau is actually used in combat and always in play...I enjoy rolling and working different "techniques". Just not a fan of chi sau point fighting. Id rather clinch grapple strike grapple strike throw. But I like meeting new people and sharing what I've learned in a respectful manner of course.No need for a PM. We met at Sifu Nick Edmond's place, "Red-light Wing Chun" at 316 W. McDowell Rd. in downtown Phoenix . Nick is of the Sam Kwok lineage. Check his webpage. He said they usually have an open practice 2-4pm on the 3rd Saturday of the month. If I'm in town, I hope to go again next week. It would be great to meet up. A friend of mine took some lessons from your Kung-fu brother Eric H. and had a lot of praise for what you guys do!
Just bringing this back up - I honestly forgot all about it. Has anyone gone since August of last year? Are they still doing it?
I wish the WC in my area was more like this. Unfortunately, there are only 3 WC instructors.
Two places are from the Leung Sheun lineage. The third is from Ip Ching lineage, where I originally trained. When one of the Leung Sheung teachers first moved here from Arizona, he visited the Ip Ching instructor and wanted to do chi sao with him. Ip Ching guy refused; he also refused to participate in any impromptu chi sao get-togethers that the Leung Sheung guy invited him to.
We may be missing context. I love it when someone reaches out to me and I have successfully done the same, but I've also gotten "I'd like to come by and see what your students can do" or "how would you like to have my come to your class and show them how we do it?" ... from basically total strangers.
There is a right way and a wrong way to build those communities and relationships.
For a WC guy to crash another WC school just doesn't make sense to me. Should a WC guy try to crash another long fist school, preying mantis school, Baji school, Taiji school, ... instead?I crashed another WC school from a different lineage ...