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Glad the OP posted this. I took Kuk Sool Won for about a year and really benefitted. I doubt I would do well in a street fight (need a lot more years of training) but I could probably inflict enough pain to get away at least. The most beneficial things for me were practicing the forms and techniques. My aspie mind really got into those. It was like meditating concentrating on all the detailed small movements and angles.

The previous post was brilliant. My instructor told me the same thing. If you can use your feet then use them! Get away.

A third 'yeah' to the two posts above.

There's an Aikido dojo within a ten minute walk of my place. I go there sometimes and genuinely have fun when I go, but often times I either can't afford it or I'm too depressed to get up enough enthusiasm for anything other than sitting in a chair.

No matter how crappy I feel beforehand, I always feel better after training. If you can work up the energy to drag yourself over there, it will almost always feel worth it. Even when it's so horrible that you want to cry, you feel better after than before because whatever it is that you're crying about is just s**t that the dojo brought to light rather than s**t from the dojo itself.

I do wing chun but few people wear the traditional slippers. They are actually difficult to get used if unless you have grown up with them.

I wear trainers as that is a more realistic as an application . Tend to wear Adidas. There are Adidas ones for mats but they don't last long. Since we train on hard floor we need proper shoes.

In all honestly whist it is nice that people get dress up in slink garbs, sash, slippers it is not any more 'kung fu" then normal clothes. Really this emulating the dress of a specific era rather than he dress of kung fu. It is just marketing.

I've done Wing Chun for years, we do lots of modern application and are actively developing all the time which in the spirit of the art.

There is a lot of politics in martial arts, especially Chinese. It is sad but true.

There is a lot of BS about linage and masters. Lots positioning and trying to associate with some reputation. None of that actually matters, it is just (bad) business. it is has nothing to do with how good they are

Personally I think we shouldn't be in the association we are. Even several schools in our branch have left or are on the way out. In reality all the school have their own approach and tending toward independence. They are just in the association for convenience.

There are chain business that have a formula, but this is not a good quality of instruction it is more to generate maximum revenue.

I do like my club though as it is a family atmosphere and the approach we have.

Any chance your Wing Chun club is part of MAI?

In my experience the first year went pretty fast and I didn't learn much. Second I found pretty challenging I almost left, still didn't know jack. From them on I've really enjoyed it and started to learn.

We have much better atmosphere nowadays and much better way of teaching. I help out with teaching and sometimes take classes. Not all newcomers have the self discipline to stick it out though just the way it is . A common problem is people expect to progress faster than is realistic, so I try give them encouragement tell just to keep it up and tell them not to worry about what they think of as progress.

Nope.