A lot of Wing Chunners have that attitude…
Which attitude?
“I want to make this better”
“I do not feel qualified to make this better”
“Cross-training dabblers are not qualified to make this better”
“We should learn from other people’s mistakes”
The principles of all styles of wushu are ultimately the same. Every time I have seen someone train other styles they have improved their knowledge of wushu. I’ve never seen anyone who for example starts to train a new style then gets worse at martial arts, that just doesn’t happen.
You don’t need to think of combining WC and XingYi. Wing Chun has been refined to its current state. The only way to improve wing chun would be to take moves away, not to add any, to refine it further.
Never the less by understanding xingyi you will ultimately improve your understanding of wing chun. Definately. Never be afraid of gaining knowledge of as many styles as possible. Chinese wushu tend to use the same underlying principles.
In application of a master, you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between WC, XingYI, Shaolin, wudang, bagua, taiji etc. The form is independant from the application. the ‘style’ teaches lessons about wushu but ultimately the application is formless. So by improving your understanding of xingyi you will ultimately improve all your wushu including wingchun. YOu don’t need to add any moves, they are all there already, you will just understand them better.
I only want to broaden my understanding of kung fu as a whole.I should have said i want to add hsing i to my kung fu instead of add it to my WC. WC is the only TCM i have trained, and have so for about 6 yrs. And now that I am persuing the weopons forms, what will be left to learn except for a deeper understanding of what it is I already have learned. Which is fine, but I’m only in my late 20s and have my whole life ahead of me to study kung fu(which I plan on doing) I want to keep it interesting. I know I wont learn much in a few months, and do plan on giving it years of trainging hopfully with a teacher in due time.
And I would train at the SixHarmonies school in NY except that I am in FL.
And Sifu VA Thomas of that school is actually my Si-Bak, and my Sifu has only praised his skills, So I don’t think his study of the 2 arts has caused him too much stagnation in his training.
oh, and by add I ment to say what RenDaHai is talking about in his post just above my last. He just said it better.