AJG wrote:Now don't get me wrong I've nothing against rudimentary techniques that work but I do question practicing technique that the subconscious mind doesn't necessarily want to accept for one reason or another. To be honest the movement by wing chun was probably smoother and more dynamic that had he done wing chun. And we all fall over Marvin, its probably because we have two legs and not four.
I do recall a post long ago by Chris McKinley on this. I think he called it contextualisation or something like that and he proposed an approach to helping ingrain the movements one wanted which i vaguely remember being interesting.
I described what Rahsun did. I did not criticize how he handled the situation nor say anything about "fall over."
As far as Wing Chun, Rahsun did what
Qi La La (an experienced Wing Chun fighter) did in his fight: missed with his trapping, punched, got head control (or underhook) and threw his opponent to the ground.
In Wing Chun's sweet spot (range), Waldo (JKD) could have extended his left arm (long guard) and followed Rahsun's missed left downward grab with a right hand punch:
As to why compound trapping may not work,
in his video, Wang Guan Nan says modern strikers (e.g., boxing, MMA) retract their punches and move, older MA styles may not have. Even if one makes contact, it doesn't mean one has control.