Wing Chun Doesn't Work In A Street Fight...

Kevin Goat loves Wing Chun as it is one of his base arts. Here, he discusses some of Wing Chun's weaknesses and explains that it is important to train in multiple arts.

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[Liberty-rnwy]

I did wing chun (JKD) for about three years. I once got attacked on the street and threw a bong sao which blocked the punch. I know wing chun works in a real fight because I have done it. The reality is that most "street fighters" are untrained and won't stay in there. So my one block did work. But he ran then.

[tonydare]

Wing chun definitely works but is about gaining the centre line and keeping the attack going if someone moves backwards. You can dart forwards faster. The second form, "bridging the gap" also has the necessary kicks if a distance is created. But as many others say, it depends on the individual person and situation. There's no such thing as a technique that always works.

[JAllen]

First form, you don’t just slap block. You can use the crane’s head. (It hooks) There are several ways to block besides the lop sou. Also, people don’t just back up. They freeze. Especially if you tag them while lop sou while they’re coming in. Just a thought.

[davidharper]

Not sure what lineage of WC you do, but take a look at WSL VT. WC absolutely works in a street fight.

[AnthonyAllen-cq]

Stances in wing chun are designed to close the gap and make contact with the opponents stance.
Once contact is made you are to stick to and follow the adversary’s stance movement to destroy his structure while doing trapping hands.
Theirs a wing chun saying that says if your sticking to him your unlikely to loose.
This saying is from the kuen kuit.

[sipscl]

It really depends on which Wing Chun line. In WSL VingTsun you hunt the body, not the arms, and break the attacker's structure through dynamic forward pressure (step work is important here!)

The VT punches are also very effective if they are trained appropriately with a lot of punch - if they hit, then this has an impact and the attacker will have a very difficult time landing his boxing punch at the same time!

[nicholaasvisser]

Pick up a street fight every now and then (Am 59yrs old). Centre chain punching has never failed me, in attack or defense.

[aavinashchaliha]

Martial arts like Wing Chun, Aikido, BJJ work when combined with other martial arts.

Boxing + Wing Chun is a very good recipe for self defence. The footwork and agility of boxing combined with the techniques of Wing Chun would be strong.

Aikido has some of the best wrist and joint locks from any martial art. Aikido combined with freestyle wrestling would be a great grappling combination.

BJJ has no stand up game but BJJ and Muay Thai, or American kickboxing, would be great for self defence as well as MMA.

[zman]

Where did you learn your WC because it is not about trapping.

[chocolateboy]

If it takes you longer to punch in a straight line than a boxer throwing a hook, keep practicing. You can throw hypotheticals all day long. At the end of the day, it's the practitioner. Wing Chun works otherwise MMA fighters wouldn't use it.

[mauricedues]

I did 10 years in Prison and Survived just off of boxing 🥊 and Taekwondo 🥋 Start practicing wing chun when I got out so .Its all on the individual Been in over 100 fights before I entered any dojo

[geoffreycallaghan]

Agreed Sifu, Im a wing chun practitioner but trained in CQC, Muay Thai and many others, a combination of all different styles is exactly what is required, as a former Police and Prison Officer one thing I learned in my career was people are unpredictable and your training has to change to suit as you said the environment your in.
Inspirational Sifu

[rickeymckissick]

He made great good points in wing Chung. They forgot to rephrase that if. The person backs up that’s when the kicks comes in that’s why they got the Wing Chung kicks. The front kicks other kicks like sidekick really that’s why they rephrase and favored the sidekick, but the principal applies to every styles of Martial arts. Taekwondo karate doesn’t matter, but if they failed to and he made great points. If the person backing up the kicks get involved but if the attacker comes forward, this is when you’re doing your other tools like your head butts, shoulder butt and elbows and it applies it all styles that’s where it makes sense but developing the rhythm of how to adapt with your footwork that’s where it selects on his own and your techniques, but you have to also take away the way they do it in sports because it takes way the real purpose of why they do their attacks the way they do and it actually does more than what it normally do it does actual form of actual battlefield tactics

[NobregaArmando]

Maybe a Mixed Cossack Style of defense and offense and perhaps a Cossack Slide or two would incorporate nicely into one's own form haha!

[djdelta]

You explain the concepts so clearly and practically. Respect teacher. Wish i could train with you. I can see that the caption was meant to draw in the skeptics and convert them - clever!

[gfenwick]

Ive heard this same thiung for decades. Always remember a few ppl making the same mistake with bouncers in HK in the mid 80's. Those idiots were cleaned up in very short order. Bad form to make assumpotions about any style and whether its effective. Its the practitioner that counts

[Shamlist]

Wonderful lesson. Thank you so much for sharing.

[angelmatt]

I love this video. im currently doing wing chun, and I've done many martial arts including taekwondo for about 4 years and i just love putting it altogether it just works

[smakajo_navajo]

I was told this about Wing Chun by someone who was Inayan Eskrimador ironically. It was a lot of awkward figures of speech, but it made sense when I thought about it more. He told me that styles are like individual plots of land that you decide to own in your mind, with its uneven ground to practice being grounded on, possibly rubble of trees that either may or may not be cleared out, and whatever sort of landscaping venture you can think of is your decision. With this in mind, Wing Chun is a road, meant for you to get from one area to the other easily. With this in mind, we can't have a road without an area to put it on. Funny enough, someone asked with a snarky attitude, "Well, what about boats and aircraft? They don't need roads?" So he showed dude Tansao after saying "hook me", but in the way of Karate, Taekwondo, Krav Maga, Eskrima, and a variety of other styles with the same outcome to the move. Then he replied, "what about them?"

[shanecolburn]

The most effective techniques are easy to counter and defend in your mind when someone is demonstrating them and breaking them down step by step. It's not so easy when you don't know what is coming, when its coming, or where it's coming. Wing Chun (Chinese Boxing) is one of the few martial arts outside of Jiu Jitsu that actually has street applicable techniques. Super legit.