It has been mentioned many times that Wing Tsun looks like tai chi or aikido, or kick boxing and karate, or anything except wing chun. I find it interesting that many those who make that observation also say it like it's weird, or surprising, or pleasant.
To me it's not surprising at all. It demonstrates that effective fighters fight similarly and that, we as humans, are bound to the laws that govern us all - gravity, our 4 limbs and their associated joints, strengths and limitations of our body, etc. The end result is that our bodies can only move in so many limited ways to create a desired effect. Yes, there are some variations, but in the end we are all working off of the same platform.
So good karate looks very much like good wing tsun which looks very much like good boxing.
Perhaps this suggests that styles that deviate too much from what binds all good fighters/martial artists together are not good?
You know, like capoeira. ;)
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at the risk of nitpicking, since i do agree with this post, here is a video of boxer emanuel augustus, performing at a pro level, looking like he has a capoeria background,,,, i would assume he got boxing skills, timing etc, and took his natural physical abiiities enhanced by 'capoeira' to move just enough and on differnt timing to frustrate pro fighters.. he is accessing unusual angles of attack and defense that most boxers would have trouble being familiar with, and therfore maybe susceptable to, if you were phsyical enough to make it work.And he is kind of proof of that in my opinion anyways. That being said, i dont really know if he studied capoeira, but he seems to move somewhat like them,, as in your statement that we all have to move within certain limitations.. Maybe we are less limited than we realise.
video link didnt go through, dont know how i managed that,, here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G8f11o5K9I
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