Once we change Wing Chun it is no longer Wing Chun.
At the heart of my own training is the practice of ‘Deconstruct – Reconstruct’.
During ‘Lockdown’ this has been elevated to a much higher level.
Instead of being a weekly practice, it is now more often daily.
Whenever I deconstruct what I know and then reconstruct the components there are always a few bits that I realise are not needed, so they get discarded, and my training becomes streamlined, more compact, more concise.
Occam’s Razor.
I am at a very different place than where I was before COVID 19.
Something that I have always known is that training is training and nothing more.
Nothing we do in training will be usable in an environment that is different than the one we train in.
A violent encounter is a ‘VERY’ different environment than our training environment.
The usual response to this statement by most people is that when needed we will just adapt our training to the new environment.
Really?
Are we to become some kind of Kung Fu Flying Fish.
To adapt means to change from one state of being to another.
Once we change Wing Chun it is no longer Wing Chun.
If what we depend on to get us out of a dangerous situation is not Wing Chun why are we training Wing Chun?
The most obvious example of this is Chi Sau.
Chi Sau has no connection to reality, in fact, Chi Sau only works when playing Chi Sau.
Chi Sau is a game.
Surviving violence is not a game.
to be continued…
WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESS’
PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTH.
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