I would say that there is a major 'weakness' in wing chun training that is overly missed. What could this be?
You're probably making the mistake as you trained last week in class.
It's your training partner.
Does your training routine account for the lack of skill of your training partner? I'm not talking about chi-sao. I'm talking about drills or exercises you work with another training partnet. You see, typically when you're training, you ask your partner to throw a right punch or a low roundhouse or a tackle, right?
But chances are pretty good that your training partner is like everyone else - learning a martial art because they have no martial art skill. So the jabs you're defending from are 'lame' and the kicks you're defending from are fake and the tackle you're neutralizing is unlike anything a real grappler would do.
So what good is your training?
Until then.
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"So the jabs you're defending from are 'lame' and the kicks you're defending from are fake and the tackle you're neutralizing is unlike anything a real grappler would do."
But then again, so is the defender learning how to defend against such attacks. There would be no point if the attacks were impossible to defend against in lower levels, first they need to know how to move how to defend before things become more "real". As you get better defending attacks, your partners are learning to attack better at the same time. So in theory you will actually get better at defending and attacking as you evolve, unless of course you train with newbies only, is that what you mean?
What good is any training in any traditional martial art?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGg_F7s7xg
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