[QUOTE=Frost;1013498]Its easy compete in MMA events 
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It’s even easier to go train at a good MMA gym, or get a MMA fighter to come to your school for privates (which is quite inexpensive when you spread the cost).
Honestly though the only way to get rid of all the secrecy and bullsh*t in any art is to implement some form of full contact competitive environment,
No, the ONLY way to get rid of bullsh1t (and secrecy is part of the bullsh1t) is through HOW YOU TRAIN. Sound athletic )“alive”) training exposes bullsh1t.
Competition is often the end result of that training, but it’s not the competition that exposes the bullsh1t, it is the training process. It’s not a single boxing competitive match (a small sample) that exposes bullsh1t, it is the hundreds of hours of sparring in training (the HUGE sample) that exposes it.
humbles idea is a good start (as is wayfrings idea of sparring and training in an MMA environment) but wing Chun needs its own full contact environment/tournament. Its only through repetitive and frequent competition that you can see a schools true weakness and strength and whether it is a good school or not.
On its face that sounds good, but is really not a very good idea. Using this reasoning, tai ji should have its own full contact competitions, every form of TCMA should have theirs, every karate style theirs, etc. So what you end up with is tons of different “competitions”, with lots of poor fighters competing, etc. While this may be one way to over a very long time develop an art, there is an easier way. Good, proven fighters already exist, venues to meet and train with them already exist.
Its easy to see if a boxing/Thai/BJJ school is good because you can see their competition records, the same goes for some forms of karate and even TKD its hard to sell the whole secret/deadly techniques if there is an open format for all the schools to compete in, people can see who is a good teacher and where the good schools are. Without a competition format its too easy to use the whole secret skills bull.
Good, sound athletic training will refute the whole “secret skills bull”. The Dog Brothers’ motto,“If you see it taught, you see it fought” exemplifies this – imagine if a WCK instructor actually ONLY taught what he could consistently and successfully do while fighting/sparring. How many masters and grandmasters would there be? 
Note not everyone has to compete but the school itself has to turn out competitors, be it in MMA/ full contact kickboxing, san shou or even something like manup stand up or whatever its called that phils guys compete in.
And then you end up with bad 80s karate-style tournaments like Phil’s guys compete in – where scrubs “fight” scrubs. And then successful scrubs use this as evidence that they are “good.” This is precisely what the karate guys did in the 60s and 70s.
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel – all we need to do is begin to train like all good fighters train, and to teach like good fighters and fight trainers teach. To do that, however, requires that we actually go train with good fighters and fight trainers.
BTW, it’s ironic that someone who will never go and actually train with good fighters (yet will teach their arts without any training) complains about secrecy and “ego”. Why not go train with good fighters except to preserve your precious ego?
