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My favorite Jackie Chan scene
I posted this very same video where I came to TSF and commenced upon my striking style investigation. My post was in response to all the constant criticism and faulting of Wing chun (whatever it is) compared to boxing,,, and how Wing chun could be applicable in MMA if only it would change and morph into boxing, whatever... What a croc.
This video offers evidence that Wing chun in the hands of a skilled practitioner could wipe the floor with what we see in the boxing ring or MMA. Of course Jackie Chan is extraordinarily gifted physically... a world renowned stunt man.... most of us could never come close.
What MMA is really scared of is a practitioner like this wiping out it's {quote} stars {quote} leaving a sport with shallow, substandard skills which don't measure up to the centuries old martial arts. I can hear the air hissing out of the punctured bag as the full contact Muay Thai & boxers & MMA make sounds like wounded sheep as their faces and bodies are beaten to a pulp.
Of course you have to understand what Wing Chun is... I certainly don't know. And it was Bruce Lee's base art... where are all the JKD killers with their wing chun base? Yeah, most of them don't know either.
What the value of the Judo experience is / has been to our class is that once you get the principles down... you are able to do things the untrained person can't, against larger, stronger, taller, opponents which you otherwise couldn't do. To do so isn't accomplished by fighting... it's accomplished by knowing the art.
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