Our Strange Wing Chun Training Secret
It has been a while
since we released an article expressing our views about Wing Chun. When
we first started working on Wing Chun Geeks, we made a huge discovery.
The solution to most of your Wing Chun training needs is right in your
pocket and 95% of the people that read this article will never do
anything about it We have discovered that filming yourself while
training will bring your training to a whole new level of analysation.
What is the secret again?…..
It is a camera. A simple handheld device many of us carry around in our pocket.
I’m A Youtube Grandmaster
Many people leave a comment
on videos, saying how they dislike them or how their Sifu is better.
Which is fine, it is an open forum that welcomes discussion. What
most people overlook is that they are not necessarily the ones
benefiting from the videos. In reality, the person being filmed in the
video is the one that benefits the most.
What we mean is, imagine
yourself training in front of a mirror. You see the mistakes you make
and you do your best to correct them. What about the mistakes you miss?
If you film yourself with your iPhone or another simple camera, it will
open your eyes to a whole new world of problems. As intelligent Wing
Chun people, it is our duty to seek our problems and correct them. You
will be shocked at the minor mistakes you make and the things that need
to be tuned up.
Professional fighters do It
Many people in the Wing Chun
community are under a spell, believing that just because we do Wing Chun
we are somehow better than the rest. Just because Ip Man and Bruce Lee
did WC, it does not mean the “magic” was passed from their hands to
yours. If professional fighters, such as MMA fighters and boxers, watch
videos of themselves training and fighting, why should we be any
different?
"Just because Ip Man and Bruce Lee did WC, it does not mean the “magic” was passed from their hands to yours."
ReplyDeleteHa! Judging from the zealous comments about Lee and Ip that can be found on youtube, I'd say this quote is very much needed.
That's one of the reasons that "lineage" is such a tricky thing. Just because you have a certain lineage, doesn't mean you've picked up the skill and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. In academia you almost never hear someone say, "Oh yeah? Well I studied under prof XYZ!", as proof of their educational pedigree. This is because we recognize that just because I attend a class, doesn't mean I learned anything.
ReplyDeleteSo why should we accept that in martial arts?
indeed, dancers trained in front of mirror. A mirror is important for the "simple" exercise of zhan zhang.
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