Which is better: Wing Chun or MMA?
I would like to know which fighting system will be more practical for a street fighting situation: Wing Chun or MMA? Any good Youtube videos to share on this too?
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Steven Yap
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I had a Black belt tell me that a good street fighter would beat the crap out of any Martial artist.
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It depends. Is it an actual fight or are you being a trained monkey for some schmuck's cell phone camera? If you are talking self defense, Wing Chun will be better. If you want to look good for your buddies and nobody is actually going to get hurt, MMA. If you are going to be actually practicing self-defense, you would probably be better off with krav maga than either of those: more effective than MMA and less training than Wing Chun.
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... MMA is an entertaining sporting game with rules, boundaries, referees or judges, has no weapons, and is limited to only a one on one fight between two fighters ... Vin Tsun Kuen (Wing Chun) is a far more total martial art that includes much more than just actual war combat. Besides learning fighting scenarios where you are surrounded by armed attackers, there are also many health science aspects, including how to make certain types of medicine for bruises, sprains, and many other types of injuries, and how to apply the medicine using acupressure massage therapy to rub the medicine in for best effects ... as well as meditations and internal controls ... a lot of tactical theory prepares the mind for anything from a single attacker to a crowded battlefield in an all out war ... practicing with a hard wooden dummy helps the practitioner to develop better striking skills than with soft padded bags ... and Wing Chun teaches knife fighting and many other various weapons ... ... my recommendation would be for Wing Chun over MMA ...
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They are both entertainment so it does not matter.
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I don't know if you know but the basis for both mentioned martial arts comes from a wise person: Bruce Lee. Bruce was a student of Wing Chun and in his last study concluded that no single martial art is best. if you want to be a good fighter and learn to protect yourself than you should try different arts and see what works best for you. Good starting points are: Wing Chun, Aikido, Jujitsu. Also, in the discovery series: "Ultimate Warrior" they have proven that some hits from one art are better than other hits on different arts.
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What's more important is quality of the training, not the art itself. A well-trained boxer will be much more dangerous than a poorly trained Krav Maga practicioner. The main thing is to find a place that trains its students well. Even though MMA is a sport, the training you get at a good MMA gym will help your self-defence due to the fact that you'll be training against a resisting opponent. Just remember that in a SD situation, the rules of MMA don't apply. Your opponents will outnumber you, use weapons, and whatnot. The key is to apply the intensity of you MMA training to the SD stuff you do. Because many SD arts are taught to people who aren't fighters, they can be trained in too "soft" a manner to accomodate them. Certain things like limb breaks can only be trained lightly, since doing them full force leads to debilitating injuries. Take the best of both worlds... do both if you can. If you can take wrestling, by all means do so. Being able to control another person's body is important, and the base you get there will work wonders in learning other arts.
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Chun Li is better.
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I believe a hadouken would be better! Chun Li sucks!
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Go with mma. It's proven and effective and you actually can spare with full resistance. You fight like you train.
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Wing Chun. However, if you would like to have an edge toss in some Hung Gar, Jujitsu, Kempo, Limalama and Kali. MMA looks nice for the cameras; but the internal styles are still superior.
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