@Chrispydelic 539286 wrote:
Yeah I know but it’s a pretty cool lineage to be a part of. I have studied at a couple of different schools but the one I preferred and studied at the longest is part of the british Taijiquan and Shaolin Wushu Association under Grandmaster Lee Kam Wing (out of Hong Kong) and Sifu Derek Frearson (Uk). Unfortunately health and safety stepped in and it became a bit more wussy. We had the highest drop out rate of any class I have ever been in. If you didn’t like pain you wouldn’t last long and it was taught as traditionally as is possible. In the Mantis we trained with fully live weapons from time to time as it is a totally different experience to training with practice weapons. Ah, the good old days!
I’m always looking for a Foshan Wing Chun class but they are hard to come by (Foshan features the phoenix eye punches which are a vital point striking system).
I was half way through learning all the pressure points when I stopped taking lessons from my first teacher, I’ve still got all the maps though, and I know the punches you’re on about (at least one or two of them anyway). The one I’m thinking of is a punch with the palm up (I’ll not say where you hit on here as I wouldn’t want anyone just reading it and doing it as it literally can be lethal).
The first teacher I had learnt from at least 2-3 different wing chun lineages over the course of about 30-40 years! He gives lessons in his mums shed, his old shed when he used to live in that house before he gave it to his mum, and that’s about 5 doors down from my house :D.
My favorite of the Ip Man linage’s is Duncan Leung’s, I’m fascinated by it, as it goes into so much more depth then most others, and is purely geared on the utilization of the art, rather then just going through the motions. Ip Man was very selective in how he taught people, and often couldn’t be bothered as he didn’t want to teach, but needed the cash. It was only the really high paying students that he bothered to teach properly. That’s why the lineages are so so different from different students of his. Duncan Leung payed A LOT of money to get taught, and demonstrates the best understanding of how to actually utilize Wing Chun in a fight imo (and successfully won many street fights in his youth when he was alive). Also a load of his students that didn’t even get very far with wing chun have taught it, purely as they have the Ip Man name behind them, and people assume they must be good, when they didn’t even complete the full system.
