I had to watch the clip a few times to see if there is the "potential" for power or if it's simply a very well rehearsed and choreographed demonstration. For some, it might be easy to quickly judge and say, "yah that's crap" simply because it's not your typical MMA or muay thai stuff... think of typical street brawler wailing at a heavy bag..but upon closer inspection, you can see his shoulder pops back just a slight bit upon impact of his punch - goes to show the lack of power alignment.
Others may look at the flow and see how the joints (shoulders, spine, elbow, legs) are aligned with the attacks - so that even though it's "weak" on the video - it can have great potential for damaging the attacker - think as if it's Bruce Lee demonstrating some cool moves slowly and with no power. You can still see the way his body moves, that there's something rooted and potentially powerful.
So what do you see? do you see these students as "potentially powerful" or "fairly weak"?
I watched it a few times already..and my conclusion - it's weak. Although they have the potential to tweak their structure/alignment/positioning, etc and it can be greatly improved. They got the flow down - now it's adding the power.
Your thoughts?
Until then.
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Most important thing is not how good they are/arent, but if you can actually analyse and have a logical, understandable reason for your opinion. You tube/videos etc are hard to tell what people are working on, or if they are just demo-ing etc. Unless you get hands on, it can be real hard sometimes to guess at rooting, force, angles, flowetc
My personal opinion, for what its worth, is they have good flow based on doing drills that reflect basic WT drills, but lack power. But to be honest, I am not really sure.
oh, and i quite like the focus on elbows, with the caveat that to demo those, you have to keep at the longer range they use,, which is too far away in reality
They look like they would be great training partners.
Gary - agree with your comments too. i think my opinion is in terms if they were to apply their skill in a full contact scenario as of today. i think they would make great training partners and have good foundation to keep going.
Is there any school anywhere in North Dakota that teaches Wing Chun? It is saddening that despite intense search, no result shows up. It's all Tae Kwon Do schools there. At least someone should be kind enough to start a school. :(
@ Pleasant - i can't say if there's a WC school located where you're at. IMO, better to learn any style from a good teacher than a "good" style from a crappy teacher.
hi Pleasant,
I have a blog with some video lessons on it for WT. I am no master but if you cant find any local teacher, you can try viewing this with a training parttner/friend. Any feed back is more than welcome...Gary
http://learnwingtsun.blogspot.com/
@ Grasshopper 2.0: The place is Grand Forks, ND. The only thing close to kung fu is Wu Chi self defense taught there. I am not particularly sure how close it is to Wing Chun.
@ Gary: Thank you for the link. I will try it if I can't find a local school at Grand Forks.
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