Teach Me To Do – Wing Chun

Over time i’ve been in martial arts for about 8-9 months and i started out from knowing nothing to something. I always use to think flying unrealistic moves would win in a fight, i was unsatisfied with my predictions. I use to do a little muay thai and practiced some knees and elbows and i really liked them. As i moved on to my now primary art, Wing Chun, i started to have a little understand of Muay Thai. I started watching tony jaa movies and i saw the flying knees… i know movies are movies, but i started getting interested in that technique… i checked on youtube and i’ve seen a couple flying knees cause the KO of an opponent.. i probably saw one that failed but the idiot went running wide open and it hardly looked like he was gonna do a flying knee…
My question is: Do you find flying knees to be effective? I think i’m gonna add that technique into my arsenal because it looks very effective, only problem i worry about is keeping my guard up while its being done…

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Should you judge a Martial Artist by years of experience?
I ask this because I have 1 year of experience, vice versa to people such as Sifu Frank, Pugpaws, Katana, etc. whom have been in most of their lives.
There was recently an idiotic question by a person called “Mixed Martial Arts” who asks “How to kill an unarmed fighter?”
In it, I asked why he wanted to know this, then he started telling me to STFU, that Wing Chun is sh!t (I wouldn’t be surprised if that is coming out of a sportsman’s mouth) and that I don’t know how to kill a person.
He came up with the excuse that I only have 1 year of MA experience to even know how to kill an unarmed person and he said he’s had 7.
Well, if he has had 7… then he should not have asked a stupid question like that in the first place.
Anyways, what I believe is you shouldn’t judge a person’s knowledge or skill by how long he’s been in MA. He or she may know some valuable info that you don’t. 1 year of effective training can overcome 7 years of ignorance.
But, of course people with only that much experience should not be considered sensei/sifu/guru. I’m not saying I’m good/great, I have way to much to learn before I can be appointed that. You cannot master an art in 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year, it takes a life time to master.
But, back to the subject,
If you oppose this, what is your argument and why?

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i just visited the site bullshido.com and read some few threads.
I’m confused why many consider some long existing disciplines “bullshido” for example Taekwondo, Wing Chun, Karate, kung fu

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whats a good technique for ground fighting?
ive been into martial arts for a while now(im 14) like Wing Chun,muay thai,JKD and tae kwon do so im basically like MMA.I learned all of this from mainly friends and online but have also pulled off techniques that ive learned.As you people can see,the martial arts im into so far are only long/short ranged but i need some ground techniques.People know me as a type of guy that knows martial arts and to not mess with me but lately some people have challenged me to take down competitions.I need now is some techniques for ground fighting and takedown moves and counters to them.If you people can help me it would be great thank you all =).

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People always make fun of Karate. Where ever I go people will always say it’s too rigid and formalistic blah blah. They all say it’s too much hard work, too little result. I have always been able to tune out the noise and focus on my training. However recently I am starting to really doubt and question the effectiveness of Shotokan. It seems to me that it doesn’t really teach us how to apply the least amount of force to have the maximum amount of impact. Basically it just exhausts you too quickly and all the katas and kumite techniques are rather rigid.
Should I switch to Wing Chun or JKD?
Just kidding. hahaha.
But yeah does anyone feel this way? Does anybody know if Karate is actually a worthy art to train in?
Thanks.

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