continuation of my liberal wing chun thread...terrence, please reply first

[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1012099]You know, what T is basically saying is that, regardless of style or teacher, you pretty much have to tailor a MA to yourself and you do it by pressure testing.
Nothing crazy about that.[/QUOTE]

And he is also saying you have to go where there are people who fight to test it. I think far too many schools pressure test only within their walls, or their linage, or within their style. In those cases there is not enough pressure in the testing. It becomes a steady downward spiral. Just look at the chi sao competitions.

Everyone in the school doesn’t need to compete but the school needs to compete. San Da, Kickboxing or MMA. Without this the path to bullshido is wide and easy.

So, does your school compete?

[QUOTE=m1k3;1012107]And he is also saying you have to go where there are people who fight to test it. I think far too many schools pressure test only within their walls, or their linage, or within their style. In those cases there is not enough pressure in the testing. It becomes a steady downward spiral. Just look at the chi sao competitions.

Everyone in the school doesn’t need to compete but the school needs to compete. San Da, Kickboxing or MMA. Without this the path to bullshido is wide and easy.

So, does your school compete?[/QUOTE]

Agreed.
I don’t have a school anymore, but in my testing phase- 1984 to 2005- I tested my crap in the boxing ring, the judo mats, the kyokushin square, the MT ring and even the Vale tudo pit and even the dread “street”.
It was fun, it was educational and it was painful.

The following is complete garbage:

Originally Posted by t_niehoff
“Please don’t talk about things you know nothing about. You have absolutely no idea what my level is, who I am training with, etc.”

***AND I’M ADDRESSING the following remarks not to Terence Niehoff, whose posts I don’t read anymore - but to some of the rest of the wing chun forum posters who either:

(A) Still feel the need to answer him when he rants and criticizes

(B) Haven’t quite caught on to his fraudulance

What the two groups above need to understand, imo, is that this guy has never, in all the years of posting on this forum, given any verifiable evidence as to exactly who it is he’s been working with, how often, and for how long. And needless to say, what this all amounts to is Niehoff hiding “exactly what his level is”…

In fact, Robert Chu once posted about how much Terence learned from him; and once you sifted through Robert’s remarks carefully, it became obvious (to me anyway) that Terence couldn’t have possibly spent more than about 5 or 6 face-to-face sessions with Robert. It was carefully worded by Robert - but what I just said is exactly what it amounted to.

And everything else that Terence has said about his wing chun background has also been murky; ie.- there’s no way to verify one way or the other just who he learned from, how long he studied with them, how often he attended, and what his skill level was.

The same, as I’ve already alluded to, with his claims to be working with mma people, MT people, and BJJ people.

And when someone from this forum last year wanted to come and spar with him in St. Louis (something that lawyer Niehoff has always presented as being do-able for the people here)…Niehoff put up road blocks - and it never happened…while trying to “spin” it so as to make the other guy look crazy.

And then there was the wing chun sparring get-together in Cleveland, Ohio about 6-7 years ago…he’s coming…he’s coming…he’s gonna really show us how to make wing chun work…he’s in great physical shape…

and then he doesn’t show - and immediately stops posting here for a good 6-7 months. Coincidence?

And before that, at the HFY Friendship seminar back around 1999…he goes…and refuses to touch hands with anyone.

AND THEN…for years here…he ripped into HFY and the HFY people (including Garrett Gee of course)…for being phonies ands charlatans.

And repeated calls to post a vid of himself doing something - anything - has always resulted in nothing being posted…and with the extra added audacity (phonieness describes it better)…

of telling people on a number of occasions (posts) that they don’t “deserve” to see what he can do - they have to “earn it themselves”.

Excuse me, but am I the only one who sees a pattern here?

FROM THE VERY SAME GUY WHO NEVER STOPS RANTING THE SAME “YOUR WING CHUN SUCKS BECAUSE YOU CAN’T MAKE IT WORK THE WAY I’VE LEARNED TO”…

…“BECAUSE I TRAIN REALISTICALLY WITH PROVEN FIGHTERS AND YOU DON’T”.

I mean, really…just who is he kidding? Well quite frankly, it seems as though he is kidding a number of people still - because of A and B listed above.

Get the clue, guys…

[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;1012278]
And then there was the wing chun sparring get-together in Cleveland, Ohio about 6-7 years ago…he’s coming…he’s coming…he’s gonna really show us how to make wing chun work…he’s in great physical shape…
[/quote]
My God was it that long ago??? Holy $hit..:eek:

[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;1012278]
and then he doesn’t show - and immediately stops posting here for a good 6-7 months. Coincidence?
[/quote]

Wow, remember that? The best 6 months on the forum I can remember…:D:cool:

Ha! :smiley:

And I loved his explanation: he found something (nameless) better to do that weekend - and decided against coming to Cleveland.

Riiiiiiight…

[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;1012283]Ha! :smiley:

And I loved his explanation: he found something (nameless) better to do that weekend - and decided against coming to Cleveland.

Riiiiiiight…[/QUOTE]

One things for sure.. Terence doesn’t pass gas unless there is some strategy behind it.. His choice was clearly calculated whatever the motive…

Terence doesn’t pass gas unless there is some strategy behind it.. His choice was clearly calculated whatever the motive…

LOL. No way he’s in control of himself or anything else.

[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;1012283]Ha! :smiley:

And I loved his explanation: he found something (nameless) better to do that weekend - and decided against coming to Cleveland.

Riiiiiiight…[/QUOTE]

No, I told you when we were discussing this gathering that I thought it was pointless to just have WCK people get together, that we should get some decent fighters (MMA) to spar with. Go back and read the thread. You didn’t want to do that (no big surprise, as you won’t go within 1000 feet of a real fighter’s gym). As I told you, you don’t learn anything significant sparring with other scrubs.

Over ten years ago I tried to put together one of these over the WCML. I thought at that time it might be good to get WCK people together and just spar. I even talked to Marc Denny about how he set up Dog Brother Gatherings. When we discussed it on the WCML, only Phil (to his credit) was interested. Then, I began training at a MMA gym and saw the folly of the idea – you need to spar/train with good, skilled people, not other poorly skilled people. Anything else is a waste of time.

I told you all this. But, as usual, you won’t listen. And that’s because you believe yourself to be an expert, an authority. When, in fact, you’re a scrub. There’s nothing wrong with being a scrub – we all start out that way. But some of us want to get better, and we’ll actually go train at good MMA schools and good grappling schools. Some of us will actually go train with good fighters. Some of us will even go compete in NAGA.

But we’ve rehashed this all before. And, I’m sure we will again. After all, Victor never listens, he never learns.

[QUOTE=m1k3;1012107]And he is also saying you have to go where there are people who fight to test it. I think far too many schools pressure test only within their walls, or their linage, or within their style. In those cases there is not enough pressure in the testing. It becomes a steady downward spiral. Just look at the chi sao competitions.

Everyone in the school doesn’t need to compete but the school needs to compete. San Da, Kickboxing or MMA. Without this the path to bullshido is wide and easy.

So, does your school compete?[/QUOTE]

That’s exactly right.

[QUOTE=Ultimatewingchun;1012278]
What the two groups above need to understand, imo, is that this guy has never, in all the years of posting on this forum, given any verifiable evidence as to exactly who it is he’s been working with, how often, and for how long. And needless to say, what this all amounts to is Niehoff hiding “exactly what his level is”…
[/QUOTE]

You are a liar, and being idiotic.

I have said where (the gyms) I train many times, how often I train, etc.

Have you or anyone else posted “evidence as to exactly who it is he’s been working with, how often, and for how long.” No.

In fact, Robert Chu once posted about how much Terence learned from him; and once you sifted through Robert’s remarks carefully, it became obvious (to me anyway) that Terence couldn’t have possibly spent more than about 5 or 6 face-to-face sessions with Robert. It was carefully worded by Robert - but what I just said is exactly what it amounted to.

AS I told you before, I had trained WCK for 17 years before I went to train with Robert. I’ve provided the names of who I trained with. I visited Robert because I found that I was lacking in my WCK – that I knew the forms, drills, some kuit, etc., but that I couldn’t make it work to my satisfaction. I trained privately with Robert for about 100 hours of actual hands-on training with him (he and I worked out together), and I also visited his LA class, had him here for a seminar, etc. He taught me the things I was missing, things like the faat mun, body structure, the kuit, etc. - things you still don’t have.

Robert told me at some point that I had learned his method and that he didn’t think I needed to continue training with him, but that I should go out and “let application be my sifu.”

Robert has also visited us here and met the guys I train WCK with.

And everything else that Terence has said about his wing chun background has also been murky; ie.- there’s no way to verify one way or the other just who he learned from, how long he studied with them, how often he attended, and what his skill level was.

LOL! Tell me, Victor, is my “background” any “murkier” than Alan’s?

The same, as I’ve already alluded to, with his claims to be working with mma people, MT people, and BJJ people.

And when someone from this forum last year wanted to come and spar with him in St. Louis (something that lawyer Niehoff has always presented as being do-able for the people here)…Niehoff put up road blocks - and it never happened…while trying to “spin” it so as to make the other guy look crazy.

Are you talking about Clarnece/Yoshi (who lives in St. Louis) – the road block being he had to pay a $10 visitor fee to the YMCA! Or the HFY guy who was going to “show me” but never showed up?

And then there was the wing chun sparring get-together in Cleveland, Ohio about 6-7 years ago…he’s coming…he’s coming…he’s gonna really show us how to make wing chun work…he’s in great physical shape…

and then he doesn’t show - and immediately stops posting here for a good 6-7 months. Coincidence?

I already addressed this – you know that you are lying.

And before that, at the HFY Friendship seminar back around 1999…he goes…and refuses to touch hands with anyone.

More lies.

AND THEN…for years here…he ripped into HFY and the HFY people (including Garrett Gee of course)…for being phonies ands charlatans.

So?

And repeated calls to post a vid of himself doing something - anything - has always resulted in nothing being posted…and with the extra added audacity (phonieness describes it better)…

of telling people on a number of occasions (posts) that they don’t “deserve” to see what he can do - they have to “earn it themselves”.

Excuse me, but am I the only one who sees a pattern here?

Yes, that people like you who are scrubs and won’t do the work of actually training with good people, but who want to consider themselves authorities, don’t like being exposed.

FROM THE VERY SAME GUY WHO NEVER STOPS RANTING THE SAME “YOUR WING CHUN SUCKS BECAUSE YOU CAN’T MAKE IT WORK THE WAY I’VE LEARNED TO”…

…“BECAUSE I TRAIN REALISTICALLY WITH PROVEN FIGHTERS AND YOU DON’T”.

I mean, really…just who is he kidding? Well quite frankly, it seems as though he is kidding a number of people still - because of A and B listed above.

Get the clue, guys…

No, Victor, your WCK sucks because you can’t do in quality fighting what you train to do as you train to do it. Anyone can see from your video that you can’t make your WCK work.

[QUOTE=t_niehoff;1012329]
Are you talking about Clarnece/Yoshi (who lives in St. Louis) – the road block being he had to pay a $10 visitor fee to the YMCA! Or the HFY guy who was going to “show me” but never showed up?
[/QUOTE]

JP’s work was going to send him out to St Louis, and that trip got canceled. You know this.

When things were really heated between our two camps, Robert and Dave failed to keep an appointment at our school.

I used to think that was a big deal too. Now I could care less. People’s schedules change… Silly Internet battles are ridiculous.

My money says 90 percent of us would probably get along perfectly well in the real world.

I’m just sayin… don’t let your online ego get the best of ya! :smiley:

I’d bet money that certain egos go far beyond their computer screens…from one personality extreme to the other. It’s the ones that hold the middle ground that will get along in real life because those individuals don’t have any social disorders.