Brutal Honesty In Training

Making Wing Chun Honest Again

- Adam Williss

IF YOU’RE NOT being brutally honest with yourself or your training partners, how can you think you are simple, direct, and efficient? Anything less is not simple enough.

It is time! No more lame excuses. No more ignoring it. No more hiding from the truth.

The art of Wing Chun is supposed to be about simplicity, directness, practicality and efficiency. In a nutshell, Wing Chun is meant to be honest. So, why have so many of Wing Chun’s training methods become the complete opposite of its purpose?

In this article, I will try to uncover these reasons. I will look at the complexity that has developed and the lack of direct, honest training that goes with it. I will also look at other factors that have played a part in complicating our current day Wing Chun training methods.

When we look at the current state of Wing Chun, we have the success of the Ip Man movies to thank for making Wing Chun as popular as it is today. But the truth is that, by and large, people just don’t seek out Gung Fu any more. If you are a Wing Chun practitioner, who is interested in promoting the art and bringing it to more people, you are fighting a losing battle. Today’s generation is being led to believe Mixed Martial Arts is the way to go. And we have the rise of the UFC to thank. UFC’s competition-based entertainment captivates audiences much more than a non-competitive self-defence art.