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personally I don't find WSL top students to be any better or worse than any of Ip Man's other senior second generation disciples (ie those taught by Ip Man's other students other long periods). I see good and bad individuals in all lineages but unfortunately the further from the source you get the more diluted the knowledge becomes in all lineages.
Diluted? The further you get from the source, the more the system changes. Often for the worse, but not always. Was Yip Man's WC a dilution of Chan Wah Shun's? Was Leung Jan's art a dilution of the WC of earlier masters such as Wong Wah Bo? Was Ng Mui's art a dilution of Shaolin? Do you have to go back to Master Ugh who defeated Ogh in the caves of Igh back in 78,000 BCE to get the real thing?
In the study of kung-fu, as in many fields, there is a tendency to believe that there was an original, authentic version that represents some kind of "perfection" or "true knowledge" and that each following generation loses some of that original knowledge. Yet every few generations a great master emerges, often improving on what came before. Today's WC is a mixed bag, but I know there is some very good stuff out there. However, with no challenges or "pressure testing" to separate what is real from what is fantasy, there is no conclusive way to separate the wheat from the chaff. This, more than the passage of time or generations is what contributes to the decline of combat effectiveness in the martial arts.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some of the videos here might help you,perhaps you checked them already.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceFighting
It's Phillip Bayer's Wing Chun channel. There are alot of old videos of Wong,not the best quality,but then again,it's treasure. Mostly are done by Phillip Bayer himself i reckon. I think in Europe,he was Wong's closest student.
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Barry Lee is an ex brother in law of WSL and used to live in germany at one time. He now continues to teach in Australia. WSL used to call him e "The Machine" because of the regularity and intensity
of his wing chun practice and teaching.
joy chaudhuri
They pay much attention to Chi Sao because it is the method in which you can develop most tools of Wing Chun:At a seminar I attended year before last, the WSL students dominated in Chi Sau. There were lots of lineages there and I could see they were inpressed. It wasn't a case of lots of crap people like me and some of them were just better, 99% of them were instructor or very long term practiconers.
I did wonder why at the time and asked on here, no one could/would explain. Although I couldnt explain and still can't, how exactly they were dominating and why. I suppose I would need a video of it and a deeper understanding myself to know. An old member on here was there and I haven't had the chance to meet and train with him yet..I will...when I do I will ask him what he thinks.
I still love the Science of In fighting documentry and although it is dated and a bit funny in parts. It still explains our art to layman and shows WSL himself doing Wing Chun. At the end it said he was going to make another about Mook, Knives and pole....as I can't find anything I am assuming it never happened??