When advancing or when advanced, how should the weight be distributed - 100% of the weight on the back leg? front leg? or 50/50 on both? Does it matter? Yes!
WingTsun teaches the student to learn how to deal with bridging (closing in on the opponent), attacks and defense with all weight on the back leg. It's incredibly difficult. On the surface, it adds the benefit of being able to use your front leg at any time, without having to shift weight from the front leg to the back leg. Unfortunately, it's also incredibly uncomfortable, awkward and unnatural. Combine that with your standard techniques of the WingTsun system, and you have yourself a funny looking kung fu art.
Functional Wing Tsun's focus does not care about where/how the weight's distributed. With years of training on sitting on the back leg, the concept of using your front leg for attack/defense is ingrained into your muscle memory. You should have this natural awareness in your front leg (similar to mun sao) without actually having to distribute all the weight to the back leg. What does this mean?
Well, to all those that say WT stepping is slow - that's not true now. To all those that say that there's no weight behind the punches - that's not true now either. Just imagine - if you can fight with 100% weight on your back leg, just imagine the damage you can do with the more "natural" 50/50 weighting?
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