Boy, did I do some rambling last post? I'm sure you noticed! Anyway, I will try to plan better for the next big post.
One thing I thought about since the last post; Bruce Lee started teaching in the U.S. although he had finished only part of the Wing Chun curriculum with Yip Man. From what I read, he had gotten through the SLT, CK, forms and half of the 108 Wooden Dummy form. Of course, I would NEVER claim to have anywhere neer the attributes of Bruce Lee. He also practiced for hours every day and most people just cannot do that for one reason or another. Basically, though what I am saying is that you don't have to go through the entire Wing Chun curriculum in order to teach. Of course, as I mentioned, I feel that it is basically up to your Sifu to give his/her ok for you to go ahead and teach the traditional method as taught by him/her and of the "Grandmaster" over him/her. I don't (again) feel that you must get permission to teach non-traditional Wing Chun. I don't necessarily feel that non-traditional is inferior to traditional, it's just different and perhaps does not always include the intracasies of the head of the system that you are in. A student of non-traditional could easily learn the basics and intermediate parts of the non-traditional system. The non-traditional system that I would teach is taken from many areas. I have learned a great deal from videos and books and I have learned generically from my 10 years of private lessons. I would use the generic form when teaching, tied in with what I have learned in the other methods. Comments?
Monday, March 22, 2010
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