James DeMile lineage students training: Negotiation

Practicing the negotiation of the pre-fight.

A lot of times what happens before the fight is neglected in self-defense training. Things like learning how to interact verbally to diffuse the situation. Too many times a martial artist can get too trigger happy, and that can be a bad thing in the eyes of the legal world.

Here we stress telling the aggressor to stay back without instigating a fight, and physically looking like you don't want to fight so that witnesses that may not hear what's being said can see that you don't want to fight. The next element to focus on is the verbal exchange AND simultaneously being aware of distance.
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[Mic8ang]

@shadjazz ...if it's okay to call myself a Filipino American, then why is it not okay to pay respects to its roots and call it "Wing Chun" Do. Because if it's not...then please tell me...should I call myself Filipino, American, or Filipino American?

[Mic8ang]

@shadjazz As you can see in the footage i'm a person of color, my ethnicity is specifically Filipino, but i was born and raised in America. So should I just say I'm Filipino because that's my ethnicity though I've actually never had the pleasure of going to the Philippines, and denounce the fact that I was born in America? or should I call myself American and denounce my Filipino roots? or wouldn't it make more sense to pay respects to both by calling myself a Filipino American?

[shadjazz]

@themusicman2005 Than why include the name "wing chun" in his distinct style?

[shadjazz]

@TheDogshithouse Wong Sheung Leung used the powerline principle. Wing Chun punchs don't have to come from the center-line. The truth is no one can claim to own principles or laws of physics, one can only follow them. According to James, he only trained with Bruce for roughly a year. Is that enough time to master an art?

[TheDogshithouse]

@shadjazz

it isnt really reinventing the wheel. It is BASED on a wing chun platform with different mechanics. wing chun do strikes from the powerline whereas wing chun it is the centerline.

[DJSedSo]

@themusicman2005

It was in an interview with Paul J. Bax VIA warriortalk(.) com under the "James Demile on Bruce Lee as streetfighter" thread that I learned of Wing Chun practitioner Robert Yeung, after viewing one of James DeMile's classes, told DeMile that he was not teaching the traditional Wing Chun. A very interesting interview.

[themusicman2005]

while a lot of other techniques are very different. James Demille only renamed the system after a traditional wing chun practioner viewed one of his classes and disagreed that what Demille was teaching was wing chun. Demille then found his teachings as the wing chun do system to distinguish between the two and also honor and preserve the system of our parent system "wing chun"

[themusicman2005]

he felt it did not teach him to effective fight against a real fighter. A LOT of the mechanics we use are very similar/identical to the tradtional system...

[themusicman2005]

@shadjazz wing chun do IS in fact a different style from traditional wing chun. It incorporates a set of mechanics that bruce lee developed with his ORIGINAL students and sparring partners. After sparring with REAL fighters such as heavyweight boxing champ of the airforce, James Demille (now Sijo Demille)...

[shadjazz]

Very effective but nothing new. Why try and repackage this as wing chun do when its basic wing chun?