Re: Yongchunquan - 咏春拳
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:28 am
My only student right now has done WC for a while. I showed him some footwork that enters on an angle recently, but unfortunately he found that to be so counter-intuitive from his training (along w/ a bunch of muscle activation problems) that he was having a hard time getting it to flow. I explained to him it's similar to the Biu Ji move he showed me before and he instantly got it. Turns out his teacher was really old school and wouldn't move you on to the 2nd form until you got the 1st form down pat, so he hadn't really learned Biu Ji (3rd form) but only knows what it looks like (if I interpreted what he told me correctly). I obviously don't know jack about WC but he showed me a few Biu Ji moves before and I could map it to similar Bagua moves, that's why I could see the correlation when he couldn't. This makes me think that a good amount of people think their system is missing X or Y simply don't understand their system well enough. I haven't seen any impressive WC footwork online but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist (it might actually be lacking, beats me). It's not that I believe any system is "complete", but it's easy to misjudge whether a system contains something because CMA tends to be secretive, expansive (so many people don't actually get the full picture) and taught in an inefficient manner.