Is Wing Chun Effective?

Wing Chun is very effective on the street!!!





But only when done right!!!! The most WC teachers are crap! Period! You should look for someone from the Wong Shun Leung lineage. This is in the United States/ Canada a guy named Gary Lam or students of him.





You have to know that WC is very difficult to learn properly! In my opinion it is the most difficult martial art of all! But if you can master it after 8 to 10 years with a good teacher, you will do very well with fighting.





As a matter of fact WC has no ground-fighting! But on the street the ground is the last place you want to be! So you should try to avoid going to the ground in any case!


On the ground you loose when the other guy has just one friend with him. You simply can´t fight more than one person on the ground, because you can´t escape quickly.


However if you feel unsafe without ground-fighting knowledge you should train some Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in addition.





If WC is not an option (no good teacher, too difficult to learn etc.) I would recommend MMA with a good Thai/Kickboxing workout and some contact sparring. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu complements here very nice as well.

Is Wing Chun Effective?
WC most definitely is effective. it is fast and highly effective and if you know how and where to move, most fights do not end up in grappling situations.





to clarify what the above person mention, what bruce "created" is not so much an art in itself, although some teach it as such, but principles applied to combat that can modify any art to make it more effective.





i put "created" in quotations, because there are a few arts that contain the same principles JKD applies to fighitng, but none i know of that get you using said principles as quickly as JKD.





"Seeing as statistics all over the place show that 8-9 out of 10 fights end there" - again i say if you know how and where to move it's possible to avoid being taken to the ground. i'd love to see that statistic though. i've heard it often, and yet no one can show me the actual statistic. please add it to your comment if you have it.





"its sad really that some people are as un educated about fighting as the guy above me" - i think you might be mixing up real fighting with what you do in your school or see on ufc.
Reply:The simple answer is No. The more complicated answer is maybe. The problem with most of these _ing _un arts is that most are taught by jokes who think they are ancient Chinese masters. If you can find a real school that trains with resistance and contact, then you might just find yourself a diamond in the rough.





I have seen so many WC guys go down so hard.... look at the early UFC, they all got clobbered. And these were 900 degree silver super duper black belt red sashes. All of them were dominated. WC is great for reaction time, but in a real life self defense situation, I would take my stand up game and ju jitsu any day over WC. Good luck in your quest for a good school and master. they are few and far between, I would say more so than taekwondo!





I can't belive the guy above me said that most fights do NOT end up on the ground. Seeing as statistics all over the place show that 8-9 out of 10 fights end there... and ju jitsu isnt all about laying on your back and fighting, as most think. I see WC guys at our studio get destroyed by ground game guys... its sad really that some people are as un educated about fighting as the guy above me. Thats how people get hurt.
Reply:ALL FORMS OF MARTIAL ARTS ARE EFFECTIVE FOR SELF DEFENCE AND PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL BEING. WE ALL KNOW A CONFRONTATION IS NOT NECESSARY TO PROVE ONESELF
Reply:depends on how much effort you want to put in.the instructor,what you crosstrain in and whether or not your opponent can actually fight.iv'e done a bit of it and it wouldnt be my choice of ma.








How can you possibly say jkd is a style never lone one thats better than any other when the creator died half way through it's inception?
Reply:Yes if you've trained properly in it, and put forth the effort to really learn it. and this is true for ANY Martial Art you study.





that was the first FORMAL Martial Arts training that Bruce Lee had through Master Yip Man.
Reply:Nope it is a horrible art. It rely too much on person to leave their hands hang for a second after they punches. Good fighter (yes even average street brawler) would pull their hand and try to punches repeatly while you'll be too busy try to block them and get hit a lot in process.
Reply:Well it depends on who you ask. If you ask people who do not know about the art they will say no, but if you ask a real martial artist he may tell you that it is not the art but the artist. So I say to you, study up on Wing Chun its origins, the cultural aspects, also some of the technique utilized in Wing Chun. Then you will have a better idea for yourself.





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Reply:i took wing chun for a very short time and i would have to say yes and no...yes because it teaches you to feel things instead of think (i am being really vague here) and teaches you to utilize both arms...but no because like most arts they have not adapted with the times and allot of what you learn could never help you in a real fight that most likely goes to the ground...
Reply:Yes.
Reply:yeah, I would say it is, although in a street fight much grappling is going to be happening and Wing Chun is only hand combat. Is graceful and was originally for women, but your moves are quick and strikes are deadly.





I would leanr Jeet Kun Do, which is what Bruce Lee created. It is a form of Wing Chun except you have kicks and other moves brought in.