In a nutshell I am the guy that will be using it to prevent getting his ass handed to him.
SO MUCH LOGIC, SO LITTLE {TRAINING} TIME.
Every Wing Chun teacher has to decide what to take from the pot that is
Wing Chun Concepts, interpret them and find a way to communicate them to others, this is why there is so much difference between teachers, as humans we do not see things as they are but in fact as reflections of ourselves.
What we all teach is what we already know by way of our personal experiences served up in the manner of Wing Chun.
My own experience contains quite a bit of fighting, so for me everything is inevitably looked at through the filter of Fist Logic.
This does not mean that I am right and Body Logic or Mind Logic teachers are wrong, but it does explain a lot about where my teaching is headed and what it can offer, and by inference a lot about what other teachers teach and what they offer.
Fist Logic is less interested with the process and far, far more interested in the results, this is why some people find my views challenging, often bringing into doubt the advice of even the most respected Gurus.
I have been asked what gives me the right to question the teaching of our Wing Chun predecessors?
In a nutshell I am the guy that will be using it to prevent getting his ass handed to him.
A case in point, around about 2 years ago I was invited to a workshop at a friends school, the guest teachers were 2 of the most respected teachers from Hong Kong, on one occasion they were teaching something that really did not make any sense to me so I asked its purpose, I was told that it had no real purpose that it was only an exercise, when I asked what was the value in spending training time doing something without purpose I was again told that it was just an exercise.
Out of respect for my friends I left it at that, to prosecute the argument of practicality, one of the pillars of Wing Chun, would of done nothing but upset the other students present that valued that type of training.
I have significant fighting and sports experience, winning and loosing, something I know intimately is that violence and aggression when they are up in our faces is mind numbing.
Injuries and debilitating knocks are part and parcel of any clash in any environment, no ones body is ever operating optimally if we cannot do something well enough when we physically do it wrong we are screwed.
Is Mind Logic worth the time spent training it?
Is Body Logic worth the time spent training it?
If there is a balance then absolutely shit yeah they are, but there needs to be balance.
Mind Logic develops the thought to do work, Body Logic develops the body to do work, but only Fist Logic does the work, this is the way of all disciplines, of all encounters, even in the workplace, as a Chef there have been many times when the orders just keep pouring in, so much work, looking around I could see my staff shell shocked and semi paralysed just by the thought of the work to be done and the short amount of time we had to do it in.
Mind numb, Body offline, the answer was to buckle in and make a Fist of it.
