Benefits of wing chun ?

is it efficient ?

Benefits of wing chun ?
Wing Chun's basic driving principle is efficiency.


All the strikes go straight down the center (which creates an automatic defense) and the emphasis on sentivity allows a practitioner to be devastating at in-fighting.


Despite what other people may say, the footwork is based on angles because it's inefficient to hit a raging bull head-on (remember the driving principle?) Also, a good WC guy will have good footwork to keep him off the ground (ever seen a straight blast?) and can use his/her sensitivity (not just the hands, but using the body) to get in an advantageous position.


Eye gouging, groin hits (hands %26amp; feet), throat shots, and knee breaks don't belong in the ring. WC is not about strengths, but exploiting weaknesses.
Reply:The advantages of Wing Chun are that it contains relatively few techniques and forms. By using its sensitivity drills a novice can reach competency in this art much faster then they can in other, more convoluted art forms in which the essential and most useful techniques are not practiced with the student for quite some time.





The disadvantages of Wing Chun are:





1) It has no real ground game.


2) The footwork is very linear, and not flexible the way foot work is in such arts/sport as Western Boxing.


3) Because many of the hand techniques involve eye jabs, and bare hand strikes, most Wing Chun schools do not spar full contact.


4) After the 1960s there do not seem to be many Wing Chun students who have tested their skills in public full contact contests where the results could be filmed and evaluated.


5) Students spend a lot of time on the chi sao exercise to “improve sensitivity”. While being able to feel what your opponent is doing by touch is a useful skill, the average person who attacks you will not be holding his hands like a Wing Chun student, so most of this skill is not applicable to real life.





My own 2 cents is that any and all martial arts can be effective if trained properly and it all depends on what you are doing, self-defense, sport, or tradional....its more important on how train and with who in comparison to the actual art
Reply:Almost all martial arts can be efficient if you know them very well...
Reply:No it's dancing.