Wing Chun CANNOT Handle Real Fighting Pressure

Wing Chun Kung Fu taught by Retired Police Officer and Defensive Tactics Expert, Dominick Izzo.
Dominick Izzo has been training Wing Chun since 1998 and has been teaching in the Chicago area since 2008. He was the first American Wing Chun instructor to be published and published in back to back issues in Wing Chun Illustrated.
He is known for his realistic, aggressive and combative approach to Wing Chun Kung Fu.
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[@andrewmason8691]

FYI, the standing on a scale and showing the weight going up has nothing to do with how they stop an incoming person. It is simply a test of how solid the stance is, which is obviously important when punching and kicking, etc. He didn’t use the term party trick, but Grandmaster Chu (Ip Man’s longest serving student) understood that it impressed people that he could do it. He was quite open that redirecting someone’s force to the ground was not something he did. He would effectively return the force as soon as they made contact with his arm. It was a very surreal feeling. It has taken me years to learn how to do that. Even then, I would only say I am okay at it. I would guess only 10 or 20 people can do that well. Which is the conundrum with Wing Chun. It’s easy to learn, but it takes a really long time to master it. Hence why you can correctly point out how deficient so many Wing Chun practitioners are and unprepared for real fighting.

[@mikeposavic9646]

Yielding.

[@dudemannxs]

Real Talk. I have been trucked before by a big guy and had to adjust for this. Getting trucked really made me address how to dissolve force.

[@ThomErbERBALNATION]

This is why I have been drawn to Kung Fu. Practal use. I don't need a belt. I need to live to fight another day. Thank you.

[@zaneivy]

...good analysis and demonstration. Thaniks.

[@SuperhumanUnchained]

Great wing Chun technician

[@ReneKrywultBA]

Dominic, my Sifu is Oliver König, Sigung Keith Kernspecht. You are totally right: If you turn with 50:50 weight distribution, your center does not move, and you will be overrun. That's why in my lineage we do the Bong-Wu turn in CK with 100:0 weight distribution. It is basically like miniature step-and-rotation, where the change of weight distribution functions as your step, but faster and not affecting core stability, and the rotation keeps me in fighting distance at an angle from the outer door. This is different from the turn with a strike. If one does this with a change of weight distribution, one loses distance and generates no power at all. This you can only get with a barrel roll like turn. So in my interpretation, CK teaches me both. What do you think about that?

[@ruiseartalcorn]

Makes sense indeed! Many thanks! :)

[@shamounian]

Love you shirt.

[@huansitoaguilar9405]

I agree , this is not 1950's Hong Kong ; I honestly doubt Ip Man was as rigid on posture as people make him out to be . Peace Be Upon Him though

[@thecarnosaurchannel2819]

Guy with glasses is a badass he fought a full grown polar bear .

[@ThinkerYzu]

I am considering being more proactive as well. Instead of waiting for and receiving the attack, we can move forward to intercept and counter the attack. I found that it is more manageable for me. In that way, I have more choices in posture and position.

[@cassiuslives4807]

so the pivot/turn can collapse into toi ma (didn't see that demonstrated). And you won't do more than one pivot at a time in a fight (probably the initial movement, or one re-face in terms of a counter). The brilliance of the pivot is that it exists in a spectrum that can collapse into a more easily defensible position as needed, without thought, when trained properly.

[@nanaacquahful4838]

Love that shirt!

[@miloshehmar5789]

Never mind the wing chun, that's always good, the man is wearing a JESUS tee-shirt, GOD BLESS U, that's what I love, a christian warrior

[@nanaacquahful4838]

Bruh Od and the fact that it’s a Superman shirt makes it even more dope lol

[@chefxhyrule242]

Amen 😂

[@wingchunharmonyindonesia]

Betul sih...Footwork is everything. Tapi saat berlatih, semua itu harus dilalui...Yie Gie kim yeung ma, berubah ke shifting lalu berubah ke Stepping, kemudian baru lah digabung dan di kombinasi kan menjadi permainan footwork. Klo mau langsung UFC dan MMA yach campur aj dengan beladiri lain, tidak perlu belajar konsep wingchun yg menghabiskan waktu dan pemahaman mendalam.

[@SUF-py4ix]

Nice thanks

[@chrisgermann6658]

In other words de sensitize to aggression. Stress test the shapes and see how they can function in the heat of the moment.

[@sasoriko]

Yep. Once the other person's mass comes in contact with your center with momentum you're done. You gotta take a step 'cuz that mass will replace yours in space. The turn is a great way to keep ground and not get chased down by moving offline not backwards. Matadors don't run from the bull in a straight line.... rodeo clowns do. Wing Chun may look funny but it aint for clowns lol

[@notusingmyname4791]

3:37 you stepped in turned???? i thought you hated willieam cheung's tactics? cuz that was totally what we did at his school.. when we can't take the energy we evade it and/or (but usually "and") redirect it, and you can't evade very well without taking a step.

[@user-om2tl8cx1t]

太極拳

[@rayarmijo3159]

I'm amateur in wing chun, but your sifu must not have taught you about soft hard energy. Or how to deflect and attack that push. I'm new, but he couldn't do that to me.

[@universalredguard]

I think your energy should always be hard but yet smooth. You either match someone's strength or use a harder smooth energy.

[@corstemor]

Bill Cheung lineage steps all over the place...... 🙄🤔

[@IzzoWingChun]

Yep yet he doesn’t shift at all. Their lineage can’t handle pressure once contact is established.

[@adamwoodman4477]

Dom, in your 'TWC is garbage' video your criticize TWC for stepping and turning. Yet here you say 'stepping and turning is how the problem will always be solved....stepping is everything" What you show here and reasons you explain why you step is exactly what I was taught at GM Chuengs school, including the full side step (stepping off line) which you do a pretty good example off at 4:03. I enjoy your videos and would love an answer because what your demonstrating here seems contradictory to your TWC vid. Thanks

[@IzzoWingChun]

they step "away" and we step "into"

[@adamwoodman4477]

@@IzzoWingChun If you say so, but thats not what your video shows here. anyway the may point of TWC that you and many TWC practitioners and even Sifus miss is that you have to control and effect the opponents balance and structure by controlling their elbow, otherwise blindside really doesn't work, and you cant do that if your too far away or stepping away as you say. Peace

[@Ben-ku9ss]

Why are you so deeply invested in this nonsense style?? If you took all this energy you have for Wing Chun and spent two years training Muay Thai, you'd be a 10x better fighter than if you spent the whole rest of your life on this WC nonsense.

[@dunsmoregaines4239]

Can anyone believe the R.A.T. advertisement with the old, rich guy from Caddyshack before these videos? He's denouncing "traditional martial arts," when Vunak learned Taekwando, Kenpo, Hung Gar, JKD and Kali. Not very tactful if your prospective customers are aware of this.

[@IzzoWingChun]

I will let you know when I care.

[@PhilipAJones]

I bought the R.A.T book. Rapid Assault Tactics (R.A.T) is basically a Wing Chun chasing straight-blast and going into a Thai plum clinch with Elbow and Knees. Also you block attacks with your elbow and legs.... And last but not least it also adapts the groin biting from the Filipino martial art Kina Mutay. ... Take it or leave it, either way it's hard to truly learn from just a book. Paul Vunak knows what he's doing but he has a life long experience.