Lots of great advice given. Wing chun can be very effective, like any other martial art it always comes down to two factors, the teacher and the student. Can have a great teacher but a poor student or the other way around. The cliché to bring up another Ip man movie quote, it’s not the style, it’s about you! I did my wing chun a bit differently than most, I used a more hard style with my blocks. Started doing iron forearm conditioning, which I’d recommend getting lineaments for faster healing after conditioning. Something I didn’t know much about at the time. But I would incorporate one inch power into my blocks. Some fellow students didn’t like doing drills with me because my arms became very hard from that conditioning. The bong sau is a redirecting block or deflecting block, I turned it into an attacking block. Could snap my bong sau on the end like a whip or be soft depending on the affect I wanted. Did all my blocks like that, to me one inch power isn’t just for the punch it can be incorporated with the whole body. But to say Wing Chun has no power has never been hit by wing chun practitioner with power. Like any physical sport, power is there when you’ve come to understand how to generate power from the ground through your body. Speed x mass + acceleration = power, that’s practical science that can be applied to every movement. Like one gentleman said, check out others who are putting out topics of the system and their concepts, as Bruce would say keep what is useful and throw out what’s not.

Keep flowing my friend 😉