 Welcome to Combined Wing Chun. I'm Sifu David. Today, we're going to talk about a very hot topic of the day Which is can you learn Wing Chun with videos? So you're probably very curious if you can learn Wing Chun at home Without a partner without a teacher without going to class if you're thinking about that then this video You definitely need to watch it need to learn exactly what you can learn or you can't learn So let's get started. So the question is can you learn Wing Chun online through a video course? Or through a DVD at home? Well, the real question is whether you believe you can there's a very famous person That says whether you believe you can or you can't you are right? Okay, so you're the one who set your own limits in your own mind Okay, so let's begin with that but Practically speaking there are things that you can learn on a DVD and you think you can't learn on a DVD, okay, so I'm not saying that Learning from Online or through a video is better. There are some ways that it's better But it's some ways that a live class and a live teacher is better All right, so let's talk about those right now. Now, why do we learn martial arts in the first place? very basically It's for self defense, isn't it right? You want to be able to win a fight You want to be able to defend yourself against someone who's attacking you maybe someone who's stronger than you someone more aggressive Okay, so what do you need? What attributes and what things do you need to increase your chances of success? Of surviving of winning a fight and those are pretty obvious I mean not that obvious, but let's talk about some of those right now now Are these things that you need you can say in your mind. Yes or no Do you need power to win a fight does that increase your chances of winning or not? Yes. Do you need speed? Yes, do you need accuracy? Yes, do you need balance? Yes, do you need to be have good movement coordination stamina technique now go through the list? Yeah, these are things that will increase your chances of success, right like think about it if you have Speed and accuracy, but you hit you can't hit for nothing Then what's the point then you're going to lose right if you have no balance Let's say you're wobbling somebody pushes you like Not just you and your follow over if you have power speed and accuracy. What's the point? You can't even stand your feet, okay? So these are things that you need in order to increase your chances of a fight now Just the next question Which one of these can you get from a live class? At which one do you use can you get from a video? Right, that's the real question, isn't it? Okay now. Let's talk about each one of them power Do you need to have a live instructor to give you power make you stronger? Probably not you can just lift weights, right? If you lift weights when you be able to get stronger Okay, now obviously That's one way, but what if I can show you specific martial arts Training methods that you can do at home to increase your power specifically for martial arts specifically to increase your punching power specifically to increase your Personal power too. Okay, so do we need a live person a live class for that? You know Speed can you get faster? Um, do you need a live teacher to make you go? become faster Again, no, it's just not just another physical training All right there and that drill is that I can show you can do by yourself that increase your speed. Do you need a live person to teach you accuracy? Not really, right? I'm going to show you some different other ways in My course how you can increase your accuracy just by yourself at home just more drills that you can do right balance Do you need a live person? Not really. How about movement coordination? Not really stamina. No, you just go for a run, right? Just go dropping Okay, technique now. Here's where it kind of gets in the border technique. Do you need a live person to train you how to use the technique? Well, the answer is probably yes and no, okay First of all, what technique are you are you learning? Okay, how complicated it is? and um, how Well, do you learn techniques? How coordinate are you to start with? Okay, now if you have some little bit of coordination a little bit of training before then it'll be easy for you All right, but if you have absolutely no physically training Then it may be a little bit more difficult for you to learn a technique. Okay, but can you still learn? Can you still follow a video? Well, that's how I design a lot of my videos and a lot of my courses Is I make it step by step so easy that even if you don't have um Coordination that I'll give you coordination through just following the exercises. All right, so what else timing? That's hard enough. Can you learn timing by yourself? well Most teachers will not know how to teach timing without you being there Okay, but I figured out something that you can do by just following a video To improve your timing. Okay, so a lot of these things are figured it out. Okay, sensitivity. That's a hard one Okay, that's the big one a lot of ancient people said you cannot learn sensitivity through a video okay, um you can probably Learn sensitivity up to a certain point. I would say Okay, there are certain training methods that require you to do sensitivity exercises like cheese out, but there's actually Ways to increase your sensitivity without using a partner without having a partner and then I'm going to show you some of that Also, and a lot of that is from other martial arts that Uh that train this too. Okay Now what else do you need to learn? Uh to uh improve yourself in martial arts. There's actually more things than just training, right? There's actually fear management Right, do we need fear management to be able to Uh be successful as a self-defense course if you're too scared to use your power speed I received balance movement coordination stamina technique if you're too scared to use any of these things Then what's the point of training all of these things? Okay, if you freeze And you're overwhelmed if you got ambushed And you in shock in the middle of the night and you just don't know how to react And you haven't trained till yet And do manage your fear then what's the point of training all of these? So yes, you need don't you think you need fear management to be successful in fight yes confidence Do you need confidence? Yes over the long run the more confidence you have then the more successful you become right motivation Do you think you need motivation? Um to be successful in martial arts Yeah, it helps, doesn't it? Okay, if you don't have motivation, then you probably don't want to train to start it. Okay How about evaluation? Yes, that's a big one Okay, so how do you know what you are doing? Is Working, how do you know all these techniques that you're learning? Actually work. Don't you need some way to test it? Don't you need to be able to be? Valid whether your forms are doing property whether your technique whether your positions are working property Well, yes, you need that. Don't you otherwise? The only person that thinks you're a good fighter is yourself, right? So So let's go back to the same question. Can you learn fear management By yourself your eyes. What do you think? Yes. Yeah. Yeah What's one way of learning fear management by yourself? Okay, it's good by that Sure. Okay, like Batman and the uh Okay, never mind. Okay, so Well, there's a form of meditation that you can learn to overcome your fears. Okay Because where is fear? Is it external or internal? Internal so It starts from external, but then you don't have fear unless it's It's it affects you internally, right? So you can control what's internal and you don't have fear Okay, do you need someone else to Teach you what's internal not necessarily you can learn it yourself, right? So all else confidence motivation Those things are also external or internal Those are internal aren't they? Okay, so these are things that you can learn with some mental exercises Okay, that you will Also learn that I also teach. Okay, and the last thing evaluation. How can you get evaluation from a video? Well, one way is if the video is Showing you exactly how you should do something and you can look in the mirror and it looks the same way Then is that a good way of evaluating? Well, at least there's a certain love There's a at least the evaluates you have to a certain point, right? But yeah, that's one way of evaluating What else can you validate? Well, let's say that there are Outside of a video That somebody watches your video that you make of yourself. Do you think that they can evaluate or a teacher can evaluate? Uh, what you're doing whether you're doing it right or not Yes, of course because they can see what you're doing, right? So So I'll let you answer for yourself. Can you learn ancient from videos from a dvd? Okay. Yeah, some things May not they have limits that they have a limit Okay, but do you need to have a live person to train? Probably not Especially if you don't have a choice. There is no one to train with Right. What are your choices? Okay So you may think that oh, yeah a live class is better Yeah, if you can find a really good live class with a really knowledgeable and helpful in forthwith Teacher then by all means go to that class and learn as much as you can from from them All right, but what other factors? Come into live classes what you have to consider. There's a lot of martial arts teachers that Do not give you all their stuff, right? They'll hold things back Um, how do you know that your martial arts teacher that you find is not doing that? Okay, how do you know that your martial arts teacher has high enough skill? What if he has low skill or even if he has high skill How do you know that he or she is able to impart? His knowledge and his techniques to you. You know what? There's a lot of really good martial artists really really skilled, but they're shit teachers Okay, and you cannot deal with them. All right, you don't want to Basically learn from them because they just have bad attitudes and they just don't know how to teach All right, there's that too. And what else how about? Um other people in the schools All right, there are many schools that just are bad environments. You don't want to either Maybe there's people there that just have bad attitudes. They have, you know, over inflated egos You know, I've been in some of those schools and yeah, trust me You do not want to be associating with people like that unless you really want to have a heart give yourself a hard time Okay, so those are other factors that you have to consider about live classes. All right So what's the bottom line the bottom line is? Are you the right student? All right, because I can give you all the training materials in the world I can give you the best training available online offline You can go to the best class and you find the best teacher But if you are a shitty student All right, if you don't have the right attitude If you don't have the right self-discipline If you don't have the right desire and passion to learn martial arts or Wing Chun or whatever martial arts you want to learn Then it doesn't matter Whether you watch DVDs or go to a class, you're not going to be a good martial artist You're not going to be a good Wing Chun practitioner. All right, so it's really up to you So that's where you're saying when the student is ready, then the teacher will appear Okay, so the question is are you ready To learn and whether you are ready or not will determine whether you can learn from a DVD Whether you can learn from just a book just think about it. All the ancient kung fu people Do they have videos back then? No, they don't how do they learn martial arts? They have these manuals with little tiny stick figures and little little scribbles of notes That's how they learn kung fu and that's how they master it. That's what they get But today we have videos. We have, you know, real time and all these all this like We have millions of videos on YouTube that you can learn from so You know, it's not what The instructional material is. It's really you are you One who are passionate enough who have the desire to learn that is the question Now let me end with this. There was an experiment done many years ago Where they had two groups of people Um, and they were going to learn how to shoot a basketball in a hoop Okay, so group one They would train physically go to basketball court court every day and shoot hoops every day For eight hours a day or maybe four hours a day. I don't know how long but they practice every day for one month Okay Group two they would not touch a basketball. They would not go to any basketball court. They would just In their mind imagine themselves Shooting the basketball Into the hoop in their mind and they would just watch videos of people shooting basketballs in the hoop Now one month later they got back together Went to the basketball court court and then they shot hoops Now, who which group do you think scored the most? Do you think group one the ones that physically practice basketball or group two the ones that um, Just practice in their mind and never touch the basketball Well, you know what group one scored better But you know what it's group two scored 95 percent as much as group one All right, so that's a science to science experiment. It's been done as recorded. So That's the facts. Okay, so can you learn? By just watching something without even doing it Well, maybe not as good as doing it but 95 percent. That's good. That's not bad All right, what do you think? Okay, that's pretty good Okay, so I hope that makes sense to you if you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them on this channel By the way, I have a free dvd. That's all I'm doing this. We have a free dvd on Wing Chun. It's called Wing Chun 101 You can grab it right now. 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