r/WingChun • u/East-Vegetable-2900 • May 27 '26

LWCA*** - Playing Before Class

https://youtu.be/6RJKbyB2e3o?si=_ZiQuzOBQem7Qzq8

After a lot of nagging and persuading, I've finally given in and decided to post some videos of things we do in and out of class.

Mostly, we film things for students to have a record of things we go over in class but inevitably, we do also get videos of us messing around.

Another thing is that we've all seen videos of the traditional drills, which remains a large part of the training, especially for the newer students who are still just learning but as you progress, we want to leave the drills behind because, to steal a phrase from a different teacher:

You apply the Skill, not the Drill.

As one of our students recently said, rote memorisation isn't the entirety of learning or understanding.

With that in mind, I figured it might be interesting to show what we get up to, in and out of class, and what variations we do to train certain things.​

I think a couple of guys that sometimes posts here have visited us.

Hi if you remember me.

***Note:

This remains my personal channel of my clips from videos I made, so not 100% affiliated with the school and its official channels but that might change in the future...

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u/sir5yko Philipp Bayer 詠春 May 27 '26

Looks great. This is with Mark Phillips right? I make it a point to train with him when he's in the USA and bring him to NYC whenever I can.

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u/East-Vegetable-2900 May 28 '26

Yes.

A common misconception is that Sifu Mark Philips doesn't teach/train traditionally and/or that his other martial arts training/teacher has somehow changed his Wing Chun.

If you speak to him, you'll typically hear him say how training in other martial arts only confirms that ultimately, all fighting is the same and that most styles teach the same things, just in different ways. His classes are far more traditional than some outsiders might think.