Is it just me or are punches in Wing Chun weak?

I've been watching some Wing Chun demonstrations and they punches look extremely weak (in comparision to Karate). Can someone correct me if am wrong? Also if i've been practicing shotokan karate all the time will starting to practice Wing Chun affect my performance in karate? thanks

Is it just me or are punches in Wing Chun weak?
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It is better to be able to do one martial art well than to be mediocre in several disciplines.


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Reply:well i can say this, in Wing Chun there's a "one" inch punch technique, which is actually 4-6 inches, however u can destroy a plank from barely moving your fist, otherwords this technique has quite some big power for something so small


the way u train in it is by conditioning your fist, this way if u do other punches, think about how much damage u can do instead of just 4-6 inches


however Wing Chun isn't the only style that teaches this





the whole point of Wing Chun is to be able to hit your opponent's center line, wit fast punches and blockin anything coming your way, and not usin eyes but instinct, and the chi of the hands coming at u from certain directions, it goes by how u feel, u strike


usually people can do this blind


person below me has no clue how unignorant i am


if Wing Chun can teach u to detroy a person from 1-inch then think bout how much it can do otherwise
Reply:It's the singer, not the song. The practitioner is weak or strong, not the style. The style is nothing more than a map until the practitioner makes it a journey. Wing Chun was Bruce Lee's first style, and I don't think any INTELLIGENT person could call him weak by any means. Punches can look like nothing but be everything. Look at the alleged "powderpuff punch" that Mohammed Ali (then Cassius Clay) totalled Sonny Liston with in the early 60s.





Incidentally, having been a martial arts practioner for many years, I find a lot of the answers in this forum very amusing!
Reply:Wing Chun (as well as most Chinese martial arts) is a soft style. Shotokan is a hard style. It is like comparing a club to a whip. They both strike the target, but with very different results.
Reply:um no, its just that you've been doing an external martial art that relies on muscle strength to power your punches instead of an internal or soft style. When I say soft, I dont mean weak. I have been working on my chun ging (one inch punch) for several years now, and I will say that wing chun will make you a better puncher, it will even improve your other martial arts or boxing
Reply:Anytime you try to do two styles at the same time, you will have them mixing with each other.





So, yes.
Reply:it's just you, let me hit you
Reply:yes they are weak, but they are supposed to be fast





practicing any style will improve Ur performance in karate cos it will open Ur mind





if your asking me both styles are bad and both styles are toe to toe you better do some ground fighting.. but that's just me
Reply:when beginning the karate punch is a lot more powerful.





In a master the wing chun punch is a lot more powerful.





the question is how much time you want to put into developing it.
Reply:WTF? Zi Shu is so FKING ignorant!





Wing Chun isn't exactly reliable art. If you want to learn similar art, take up boxing.