Yeah, enthusiastic beginners are just dangerous full stop.
Especially the cocky ones. It takes a lot of patience to deal with people like that.

We do a thing called Chi Sau, which is like a light sparring game to improve reflexes and speed. It's the first type of sparring you do in Wing Chun, so people always get over-excited and the first Chi Sau lessons usually end up in someone getting a black eye through lack of control. That's been me a couple of times.
( PMGT -Bacon., Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:34, 1 reply)

Our style is influenced by Lau Gar
Is the chi sau thing like sticky hands? You practice with those wooden rings right?
( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:41, closed)

Lau Gar is cool, met a few guys that do that.
and yeah, it is sticky hands. Although we don't use the rings. Some styles of Wing Chun do though.
( PMGT -Bacon., Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:52, closed)

Good Chi Sau video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvnas8sC4Fw

this is Ip Chun doing Chi Sau with one of my teacher's students, Shaun Rawcliffe. Ip Chun taught my teacher, and his father Ip Man 9the one who has just had a couple of films made about him) taught Bruce Lee the first three forms of Wing Chun.
( PMGT -Bacon., Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:56, closed)

Normally I find my sticky hands videos on less salubrious sites than youtube :P

( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:58, closed)

yeeeeeeeah
It's an unfortunate name... hence why I call it "Chi Sau" instead....
( PMGT -Bacon., Fri 20 Apr 2012, 14:02, closed)

I must admit
I don't like the idea of regulalry being punched.

A friend did Wing Chun and I occasionally sparred with him to our mutual benefit. Over 2 feet away he got worried, closer than that I got worried.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Sat 21 Apr 2012, 10:19, closed)

Yeah,
that was why I used to combine Tae Kwon Do with Wing Chun. Wing Chun is devestating at any range of about 5 feet away or less if your footwork is good. I used to love using Wing Chun in Tae Kwon Do sparring matches when we got too close. I got disqualified from one match for kicking someone in the back after I used a bit of Wing Chun footwork to get round the back of him when he lunged at me with a snap kick. Not allowed to hit unpadded areas apparently.
( PMGT -Bacon., Sat 21 Apr 2012, 11:51, closed)

In Tang Soo Doo
It was more sport based, so no padding, and in competitions there aren't any sweeps, jumping punches, etc. A kick to the back wouldn't score a point.

It's why I got involved with other styles, for situations like you described.

Fortunately the only time I got disqualified was for kicking a much smaller kid in the head when he literally run at me. He bit his lip and drew blood, so out I went. He got absolutely thrashed by some meatwagon in the next round, so I wasn't too worried. The peril of being at the lower end of a weight group and meeting someone at the upper end!
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Sat 21 Apr 2012, 21:56, closed)

I weigh about 17 stone,
but I can move for a big guy. I used to always get paired up with the properly big fellas that were slow and powerful. The guy in question was a red belt (I was a yellow belt) and he overcommit to a lunging kick. It was easy to get behind him.

I think it's ridiculous to get disqualified for something like that. I don't want to fight someone head on if I can avoid it. I'd rather be at a positional advantage. And what the hell was he doing letting me get behind him in the first place? He should have been disqualified for being a shit fighter.
( PMGT -Bacon., Sat 21 Apr 2012, 23:16, closed)