Martial arts Magazine Budo International 318 – August – 2016

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WingTsun improve his system and show the finest flavors of this exciting style, he was refused by his peers for not having a similar aesthetics to what he used to practice years before. Today is exactly the same. Let's look at it with some curiosity: despite Yip Man overcame each and every one of his fellow practitioners at a technical and combative level, the vast majority of them kept pointing to him as a traitor to the style, because he was training and doing things that differed from what their Sifu had taught them. And what is more, for having practiced with a master of their own school and their own style ... Incredible! Doesn't it sound familiar to you? Well ... today is exactly the same. Those things of the pendulum... Years later, asked about what it was or it wasn’t Wing Tsun, Yip Man said some wise words that for me summarize this system and solve any doubt. He said: "If it meets the principles, it's Wing Tsun ..." The principles of Wing Tsun are often recited aloud by the practitioners of this style, but they rarely studied in depth for their practice: I would like to invite Wing Tsun practitioners to look at what they do with deeper eyes, and to avoid judging the personal style of others. I firmly believe that this system has created (and still creates) outstanding Martial Arts practitioners and the simple fact that the aesthetics of what they do is different from yours doesn't give them the "patent" of the style.

“I would like to invite Wing Tsun practitioners to look at what they do with deeper eyes, and to avoid judging the personal style of others.”


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