I started this group: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/wckcg/
because of people who criticize other’s clips but show none of themselves.
The group is small as I predicted but every member shares clips of themselves “doing” WC with respect and no egos or lineage crap.
Everyone benefits that way. Everyone has a right to their opinion of course. My opinion is that those that can’t or never have shouldn’t criticize.
[QUOTE=wiz cool c;787699]What I saw in the video that looked like wing Chun was the classical chain punch, straight kick and elbows done the way I’ve seen them instructional videos. What more do you need. Anything else and where getting into the fantasy kung fu movie stuff. In the 70’s Shaw Brother films the Kung Fu expert never looks bad. He easily defeats his opponent with his back straight with one arm. People still think this **** is real.[/QUOTE]
LOL.
Well if you’re going off an instructional video, you must know what you’re talking about!
The original video link posted is OLD OLD OLD. I get a kick out of it every time someone puts it up like it’s never been seen before.
From a layperson’s POV, it did contain WC techniques. However you missed the point a few people made that compared to Phil’s clip, the people in the 1st clip weren’t quite as coordinated.
If you saw someone demonstrating your art not particularly well, you would disapprove of their clip.
Same goes for this situation.
Also some of the sparring practices were unsafe which doesn’t promote the art well either. Elbows to the back of the head is not a good idea. A bit of foam on your head will not protect much.
[QUOTE=Phil Redmond;787769]I started this group: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/wckcg/
because of people who criticize other’s clips but show none of themselves.
The group is small as I predicted but every member shares clips of themselves “doing” WC with respect and no egos or lineage crap.
Everyone benefits that way. Everyone has a right to their opinion of course. My opinion is that those that can’t or never have shouldn’t criticize.[/QUOTE]
Hi Phil,
Way to go, I hope that list does well and serves its purpose. I am sorry if I crossed some line. However, I am not sure I agree with your criticize comment though.
I agree there seems to be a lot of people unfairly criticizing. Though I am not sure this applies in this video as people have commented on what I think are valid points. If someone is claiming something is wing chun but it doesn’t have any wing chun principles, then why shouldn’t we comment? I hope perhaps, if it is good constructive criticizing, that the people can grow from it. I don’t think the entry price for comments should be a posted video without concern for quality. I myself don’t have to post a vid of my wing chun to know I still need improvements, and I don’t think anyone out there would benifit from what I could put out. But I do feel I occasionally stumble upon a good thought and perhaps even provide some beneficial constructive criticism.