If you have this kind of attitude, all your life you may be a good "copy machine", no more and no less. Is that what you want to be?
90% of Wing Chun styles out there are robotic with no body movement, I'm all about expressing and adapting yourself to new styles but that doesn't mean mix it up with your own style and then try teaching everyone else it as if it's your own style. I've always been taught to use the body and be free with expression. Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kun Do because it suited him personally but that doesn't mean everyone can use it. Learn a style then adjust it for yourself, don't try changing the style for everyone.
How so? In what ways?
Can you go into deeper detail as to what is meant by 'changing the style' and 'teach the new way'.
I mean like if you master Wing Chun and then decide to master Taekwondo then feel free to combine it but if your gunna teach Wing Chun then by all means teach Wing Chun as the combination wouldn't suit everyone and if someone wants to learn wing chun then that's all they wanna learn.
You have assumed that the ancient material is better than the modern material.
WC doesn't have roundhouse kick. If you add roundhouse kick into WC, that will be a plus.
No doubt about it but it's not wing chun if your gunna change it all the time, if your teaching Wing Chun then teach pure Wing Chun.
That's fine if you just want to learn history but if you want it for fighting who gives a damm what's pure and what's not pure if I'm learning I want to learn what works to protect myself. So you'd rather stay learning something less just because it's "pure"?
Feel free to change it but I just find it of putting when someone advertises or decides to start teaching Wing Chun with a bit of Muay Thai or Taekwondo or anything but by all means learn it for yourself just don't try making your own Wing Chun and teaching it as if it's your own new style.
Ok you find it off putting then dont train with those people then. Doesn't mean they shouldn't do it just because you don't like it. Some may prefer that. Also if they mix wing chun with Muay Thai or taekwondo then that is their own style simple as that. Nothing wrong with it at all
I'm not saying it's bad just don't teach someone that people aren't after. Like my teacher, one of his black belts teaches and he spent one month in China and did Shoulin so now he tries to mix it with Wing Chun and even watches videos on YouTube of it to learn more. Personally I don't think he should be using or teaching a move he's never been taught.
Good for him he's becoming a better martial artist because of it. Like I said just because /you/ don't want it why would that mean no else wants it. If someone's filling wing chuns holes that can only be a good thing. Maybe you should try learning new stuff instead of having a closed mind it may help you improve
I got nothing against doing other styles with Wing Chun and I've tried doing other style but nothing else has the same feeling as Wing Chun not even other wing chun schools and I haven't seen any of them use the body from feet to head. But only from the knees or elbows.
Well fine that's up to you but it doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. You do what you want and let everyone else do what they want
First Yeh Men's WC was not pure to start with. He added the staff form into his WC. If he added a sword form into his WC instead, how will you be able to know the difference?
Very true and it's a shame that we can't go back to pure origins, my school doesn't teach the authentic Wing Chun guard so I've wanted to know why Wing Chun use or and how. My Sui Lim Tai, Chum Kui and Bill Jee is different to everyone else's and even though we come from William Cheung even in his videos it's still different to what I know.....
