This clip was forwarded to me last week or so. it's a boxer versus a wing chun guy.
What are your thoughts on this?
There are so many things one could say and so many interpretations of what should have or could have happened....especially in terms of either the boxer or wing chun fighter's skill level..or lack thereof if that's what you see.
What do I see?
i see a lot of space for both fighters to move back.
There's a lot of room to retreat, to circle, to side-step. All annoying to the wing chun fighter who likes to get in close.
Of course, there are tactics to help minimize the attacker moving away, but at the same time, that's very very difficult to make happen especially at someone at my average skill level.
At one point, I thought the wing chun guy could've had a chance if only he committed fully and since the boxer was going quite easy (hands down, didn't really take wing chun guy too seriously). If the WC guy just ran right through him once, I think that would've set the tone.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?
Until then.
1 comments:
I think that, as pointed out in the comments, there's a real range disadvantage here for the wing chun guy: his opponent has a significantly longer range with his arms. That, combined with the fact that, like you said, there was a lot of room for backtracking, gives the wing chun a real handicap. Things might have faired better if they were about the same size and they had a smaller fighting field, but we can't be sure of that ofcourse. Wing Tsun only works when you're really, really close, so what I think he should've tried is to get so as to make things really uncomfortable for the boxer, at a range where he wouldn't be able to generate force easily. That being said, this is far from an easy thing to do. Also, I think he might have benefited more from using kicks to control the distance, break the opponents structure up a bit.
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