same answer: “THAT'S OF NO IMPORTANCE AT ALL; such things won't make you any more efficient!� For a long time I believed without question the words of my masters. How it couldn't it be otherwise, a student must believe in his "fathers/masters" without doubting his words.
But truly, that's not always good; having elapsed a few years and after knowing different points of view, other institutions and hundreds of masters, I've come to important conclusions: 1. No one (not even my excellent masters) have the absolute truth. 2. All have a small part of that truth. 3. Shutting yourself in defending a position/opinion prevents you from knowing very important elements of other people who are studying an art with the same intensity and passion than you. 4. If we lose our humbleness and respect for other schools and practitioners, we are doomed to the disappearance of our exceptional style. 5. WingTsun Kuen is a style of Chinese Boxing and therefore is an important part of Chinese culture. Any attempt to separate basic elements from the style, such as Chinese Philosophy, Medicine and the history of the Chinese people, is to condemn the style itself to become a self-defense system surrogate, like all those hundreds that come up every year. 6. Tradition and moder nity are not at loggerheads when we talk about WingTsun. On