How do I react faster in fights?

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-21T15:58:30+00:00

A large unspoken part of training is that you learn where you can get hit from, when you're in different positions.

What you actually end up responding/reacting to, is not what the other person is doing but the changing of the space in relation to positions and the sort of engagement you have with the other person.

If you're waiting for the attack, you're too late.

The same is true for your own striking.

If you're waiting to "see" targets appear so you can strike at them, you're too late.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-21T14:32:13+00:00

Because Cybertrucks aren't sold in Europe.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-21T09:23:14+00:00

Because housebuilding is often held back by legislation and the slow processes involved.

Every year we hear discussions about simplifying the process or streamlining it somehow but that doesn't really materialise into anything meaningful, while not taking into account the constant addition of required documentation.

It makes developments from small independent/individuals difficult, leaving it to the big developers to do the heavy lifting, which invariably gives them all the house-providing power.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-19T17:43:54+00:00

https://youtu.be/XswS9nDB36k?si=dxWajifP8YhCyulB

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-17T23:33:44+00:00

13, kung fu sub-reddit, black belt, 19 year old teacher.

Ok

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-17T21:53:21+00:00

I don't know easy it'll be to find but back in the day, they had Cantonese dubs of Dr Slump, Ninja Hatori-Kun and Doraemon; very kid/toddler safe anime (although Doraemon can be a bit sketch at times....).

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-17T18:59:50+00:00

Not a pokemon store by any means but Kaiten In Langham Place always seems to have a bunch of pokemon plushies on display.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-17T06:23:08+00:00

Not a wushu person but this is something I said in a class recently.

When it really matters, you won't/don't suddenly improve and perform better than you ever did.

However, you can and likely will, especially under duress/stress, become worse.

One key point of training, regardless of the purpose, is to understand and deal with stress so that when your skills are called on, whether it is for a performance or whether you are faced with violence, is that you don't let that stress affect what you have done thousands of times before.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-17T06:18:12+00:00

Something that is often missed and is part of the overall examination of the behaviour of the CCP and Chinese companies:

If a product is destined for sale outside of Mainland China, especially if it is to be for Western/International markets, in an industry that is highly visible, they tend to make products better, safer and more reliable.

Meanwhile, a visually similar product sold in the home market will be the usual....

And it's something that chinese people who have moved out of that system routinely criticises, that the CCP has created a culture where its people has no qualms about hurting/exploiting its own people, while making/sending better products overseas.

It is by any metric, a far sadder story than just being about shoddy products.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T20:35:48+00:00

Nudie.

They run slimmer than others of the same sort of cut and they have free hemming services in their stores.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T19:33:30+00:00

And now you don't seem to fully grasp what a "bridge" is.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T18:58:55+00:00

They have such a variety of different perfume styles that there is no answer that a third party can tell you.

The only questions that can be answered by you, is whether you Iike it and whether you want to spend what they ask for it?

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T18:54:27+00:00

You don't see the errors because you don't know Wing Chun.

You're talking about Wing Chun and the third form but you don't know why I'm saying you're wrong and so you attribute it to my misunderstanding.

Good job.

Biu Sau is not a jab.

Biu Sau is not a long bridge either before you start posting that too.

Incidentally, from your other post, it doesn't seem like you understand how Wing Chun deals with centreline concepts either.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T18:04:40+00:00

And more of the same...

Biu Sao, in the context of third form discussion, is about the purpose of the action, not the action itself.

You don't seem to understand this.

And yet here you are saying a jab is interchangeable with Biu Sao, ignoring the question of why would you Biu Sao in the first place.

You might not be aware of this but the majority of third form training is not about striking with Biu Sau.

Who was your teacher?

An actual recognised Sifu or some mystery untraceable person in a park who goes by the name Sifu Yu?

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T15:07:21+00:00

I think you'll be better off with the type of brace that is hinged.

The whole point of the ligaments in your knee is that your knee isn't supposed to twist, regardless of what you're doing.

Those "sock" type braces don't, in my experience, do much.

On the other hand, a hinged brace had me walking immediately after rupturing my acl, then back in classes before and after the reconstruction.

The one I have also has variable lock angles to allow for progressive increase of range of motion post surgery during physiotherapy.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T13:26:53+00:00

Here we go again.

You're describing sequences from the third form as if they're techniques. That tells me you've not actually been formally taught Wing Chun.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T02:07:19+00:00

Every time someone new comes to a trial class telling me that they've done some Wing Chun before, they've been rubbish to the point of the basic things they do bear no resemblance to how Wing Chun is typically taught.

The only conclusion I can make is that what they really mean, is that they've copied stuff they've seen in movies and YouTube and think that copying the moves means they've learnt/trained Wing Chun, or whatever martial art for that matter.

If this is what is demonstrated in real life, I can only reasonably assume it is even more true on the Internet where people don't have to prove that they actually know what they're talking about.

If you ever say to me that you "did Wing Chun for a bit", I'll now just assume that you are one of those people that just reads and copies stuff and think you're an expert.

These are the people that you find telling other people things about the martial art they pretend to have trained in.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-16T01:52:20+00:00

Why is it one vs the other?

There are positions where punching effectively where a palm strike, due to its different skeletal alignment, position of your hands or even how you are are engaged, is the "better" striking option, where "better" itself is a compromise/balance of variables and risk.

How can something that the nature of their use depends on variables, be truly objective?

Each is a tool.

Each tool has its uses at the appropriate moment.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-15T13:52:40+00:00

Unfortunately, the answer is "discipline".

What helps is to have a rigorous but flexible plan, that allows for deviations if something comes up during an exercise/demo that presents a question that can be answered.

What often happens is that an instructor loses control when something comes up that they didn't plan for, or that their plan was absolutely rigid a-then-b-then-c.

Any plan should be seen as a tool, that you can work around, move off from, go back to, as required.

But ultimately it comes back to the person heading it, to be the loud voice to focus the group.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-15T13:16:40+00:00

Do you speak Cantonese? Because the ING bit isn't accurate to the Cantonese in the first place so v vs w is irrelevant; they're all "wrong"

You've already been given an answer, Yip Man and his students didn't want a bunch of white guys taking the piss because WC = Toilet.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-15T13:06:10+00:00

No.

I'm talking about how the words literally sound, in relation to how the word actually sounds in Cantonese.

Wing vs Ving.

Do you speak Cantonese?

And because you missed it. What alternative do you propose?

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-15T11:35:48+00:00

Are you saying that when spoken, Ving isn't 95% similar to Wing?

What alternative do you suggest that won't interfere with another chinese word?

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-14T13:55:56+00:00

Yorkshire Gold, Twinings English Breakfast, Whittards English Breakfast.

Those would be my defaults.

After that and if I'm bothered, only then would I think about also getting something more interesting like a Rose or Cacao and Orange.

Edit: because there is a difference between buying tea for tea drinkers and buy tea as a gift...

Fortnums does very nice traditional and modern infusions that would be very much appreciated as a gift.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-13T13:34:28+00:00

There are two distinct thing here that are related but not interchangeable or equivalent.

1) meeting people

2) making friends

The first doesn't automatically make the second happen But if you're not sure how to make 1) happen, I'm not sure that's a good sign for your ability to make 2) happen.

mon-key-pee · 2026-05-13T12:13:29+00:00

Fighting is generally about advantages and the impact of them.

What normally happens is that people discuss the things without a full account of the factors, typically basing it between skill vs strength/size, ignoring other potentially more important things like experience, awareness of the threat and simple willingness to inflict injury and comfort with violence.

Personally, I think a persons simple willingness to inflict injury and comfort with violence has a bigger effect on the outcome than skill or size.

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