If a wall is all you've got, then use it! Martial arts is all about what is useful.
That sounds about right. There is this little old guy, maybe 5'4, who has sometimes attended the class and one time the senior teacher was telling me that there aren't very many people he'd never want to be really hit by, but he's at the top of the list. One time this bigger young guy challenged him to chi sao, within three moves he struck him in the ribs with a palm, not even full on since he was obviously holding back, but absolutely winded the guy. By the end of the class the guy wasn't feeling so good and later on got x-rays and found he had a couple broken ribs.
In the history of wing chun the story goes that it is named after a woman, some say princess, who was set to wed this military general or warlord. However she didn't love him and didn't want to marry him so she ran away from the city. It's said she encountered one of the Five Elders, Ng Mui who taught her this fighting style specifically based on the fact that she was smaller and less physically powerful than the general. She used this to defeat him in combat and reject the marriage.
I am fortunate that my sifu decided to settle here and is willing to teach, it is from the Ip Man lineage. His student Leung Sheung taught one Paul Lam, who taught my sifu, Bob Stevenson.
That sounds about right. There is this little old guy, maybe 5'4, who has sometimes attended the class and one time the senior teacher was telling me that there aren't very many people he'd never want to be really hit by, but he's at the top of the list. One time this bigger young guy challenged him to chi sao, within three moves he struck him in the ribs with a palm, not even full on since he was obviously holding back, but absolutely winded the guy. By the end of the class the guy wasn't feeling so good and later on got x-rays and found he had a couple broken ribs.
In the history of wing chun the story goes that it is named after a woman, some say princess, who was set to wed this military general or warlord. However she didn't love him and didn't want to marry him so she ran away from the city. It's said she encountered one of the Five Elders, Ng Mui who taught her this fighting style specifically based on the fact that she was smaller and less physically powerful than the general. She used this to defeat him in combat and reject the marriage.
I am fortunate that my sifu decided to settle here and is willing to teach, it is from the Ip Man lineage. His student Leung Sheung taught one Paul Lam, who taught my sifu, Bob Stevenson.