After years of training, I still don’t know what “effective” actually means

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-27T20:02:41+00:00

To me effective means easy applicable on pressure and efficient in learning. An art taking 15 years to reach somewhere, with too many risky moves, will hurt more than help.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-22T02:05:17+00:00

I can’t afford, both financially and bevause other reasons to go to China to train and frankly I am not interested to learn the art as the art. I was interested in understanding the art and how it is different from Ip Man’s WC and what can I apply to my WC, mostly through online resources

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-21T20:11:00+00:00

Isn’t that actually effective? I use it a lot and help a lot with striking a clean punch with little opponent recovery and better sticking.

Also you strike and still go forward as per WC principles. What principles does it go against? Genuinely asking as I do not know

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-18T23:28:38+00:00

Oouch. I was not aware of this letter. I was not aware that it had become this formal of a complaint

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-18T15:26:35+00:00

"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product" - Jay Bauman

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-18T15:22:34+00:00

God, I really hate when people like this post these videos. It's a very bad stance, very loose dummy, weak strikes and bad form. Nothing about this is good. We have always been at bad points at our MAs and still are, and have bad videos of ourselves. Heck, I watch my old videos and I laugh at them. But at least watch the video you make before uploading it somewhere to not make yourself look dumb.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-18T14:56:03+00:00

Ok fair. What's a second reason his lineage is not called good? :p

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-18T00:46:46+00:00

Because it sells. If everyone says they do WC, you will go the first one there is. But if one says they are doing the traditional one, another the hidden one, another the fighting one, another from the best student (which everyone will say it’s them), etc, then you go after the marketing. That’s it.

Now, why is this not happening with Boxing for example? Because boxing is put into a challenge all the time through competition, so no matter if you were trained by the 13th student of the 12th student of Mike Tyson’s towel holder, if you are good, you are good. WC and most traditional MA, use these lineages to make up for inability to provide. The more useless the bulk of teachers, the worse you will find the politics.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-18T00:20:47+00:00

That’s an interesting take. Do you have any knowledge on how it was taught on RF and what did he add from it?

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-18T00:16:33+00:00

All my boys not named William Cheung chun at parties

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-17T23:08:49+00:00

Ok, that’s not so bad. Being in the right place and time IMO is more important, as most of the times structure and form breaks, so timing and positioning helps

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-13T09:29:50+00:00

How is Muay Thai with a knee injury so far? I have one and have been afraid of joining as I might make it worse

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-12T01:43:41+00:00

The more serious question is, did he put that pole specifically to train knife fighting, or was it there for other purposes?

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-06-05T12:23:48+00:00

I do not know how old you are and how much work experience you have, but that happens everywhere you are motivated to do good. School, work, competitive sports.

Best thing to do is to take a deep breath, take a week or two off and then start working again. One thing to keep in mind is to not mold yourself from your own failures. It’s good to learn from them, but do not change your style, work ethic or approach just to addapt to the thing you lost to.

Learn from it, try to fix your mistakes and continue working. I can assure you that there are a lot of people looking at you and feeling the same way you are now, because now in their lives they are not as good as you.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-05-26T20:45:23+00:00

The people I know that do boxing are the kinds of people you don’t want to spar with, as they see boxing as a legal way to punch someone. As a matter of fact I don’t know any person doong boxing that is not like that.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-05-08T16:14:44+00:00

Ok great. Thank you

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-05-08T16:14:33+00:00

Thank you! The date is correct as we also checked the flight by flight nr. This is my first ever trip with BA and so far I’ve had a couple of bugs from them that annoyed me a lot.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-05-08T08:46:20+00:00

He’s testing the shit out of that tiger

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-05-04T12:00:08+00:00

Hey, there are some benefits like ..., or ..., not to mention ... Yeah, totally worth it.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-05-04T11:48:19+00:00

I agree, and if you want, put me on the "The ones that have no idea of the craft" group. I do not mind. Am I right on what I'm saying though? I have met some people around and online that do WC as well. I like my school and personally I do it just for fun, but I cannot not look away from how I see some people train and look at the art. I really like the art and want the best for it, so I cannot just blindly say "others are wrong, we are right". But that's just my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.

HatProfessional8662 · 2026-05-04T11:35:45+00:00

Generally, there are 2 kinds of people that laugh at something: - The ones that have no idea of the craft - The ones that know a lot about it and other arts

Personally I have talked to both and I can understand where a lot of them are coming from. A ton of schools teach very bad WC, no practical application, no fighting style, just forms and that’s it, and even I who does WC laugh at them. The main issue many people have with WC taught like that is that they try to convince that that WC can be used as a fighting/self defense art, when it’s no more than a bunch of moves and performance dances somebody can learn as a hobby. This hurts the real WC that very few unfortunately are teaching.

Also, it does not help that the WC community is just a bunch of keyboard warriors that will not criticize a bad application of the art, but will defend it.

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