Thank you Geezer. Yes, you are correct, this drill is learned in one session (class) and has the students understanding the concept of using only the elbow to move your hand positions almost immediately. I am patient, but the only reason I continue with this is so HLF will see it is too difficult and time consumng to do it by using the internet. I know he feels he has no choice but to do it this way. However, I feel if he really wanted it that bad, he'd make the effort to find someone and train with them. It doesn't matter how often, once a week, once a month, several times a year, anything would be better than how he is going about it right now. That's how I did it, I travelled to my Sifu (and continue to do so) for private lesson, seminars he was giving (within a couple hundred miles), and just did whatever I could to get the training (investing time, money, commitment).
So HLF, if you really want this, and I mean REALLY want it, you have to make sacrifices. You have to make the time, get the money, make the commitment to find a WC Sifu and get the proper training to do this art. You don't get something for nothing and anything worth doing is worth doing right. For the time you've spent so far, you would be much, MUCH further along than where you are at right now. If you have a couple of friends who are also interested in learning Wing Chun, you could most likely chip in together (money and transportation) to visit a Sifu for a private lesson once a month (on a Saturday or something like that) or every other month, and start from scratch. You might even get to video your lessons so you could take it back and review, to refresh your memory of what you were told to do in said lessons (I did that when I first trained with my current Sifu, me and a couple firends chipped money in for lessons, rode together and visited once a month, video'ed lessons). When I started, I'm sure I wasn't much older than you, was married and had a job, a house, a child, and several other commitments, but still found the time and money and made the effort to train with my Sifu and with my gung fu brothers when we returned.
HLF, you won't get much better, skill wise, by doing it the way you are doing it now. So stop wasting your time and do something about it. Talk to your friends, talk to anyone, everyone, put the word out you want to see a Sifu on a regular basis and see if someone else would do the same. In this day and age, there are plenty of ways to make connections to find people who want to do what you want to do, train in Wing Chun, but have no one nearby to teach them. There's this forum, FaceBook, Twitter, you name it. There is bound to be a few other people living near you who would commit to travelling once a month, or whatever, for proper, serious training in this art. You just have to start searching and find them. Look at it this way, you found us. And we're scattered all over the world, are we not?
HLF, where do you live? I live in Spartanburg, SC, in the USA. I'm not sure where you live, but I know it's not local to me. And you and I have talked with other members from another part of the United States, Europe, Asia, China, Australia, Canada, you name it. So with a little effort, I'm sure you could find someone in your area who may have an interest in making an effort in receiving lessons or training in Wing Chun. At least once a month. So do it.
