any similarity between wing chun and kali

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psy-ops

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I have some videos on kali kelley worden and james keating filipino concepts 2.

I have less experience with wing chun. so maybe someone can help me understand a bit.

Both have in close techniques.
Both do double short swords and sticks.
both have flow drills and trappng and locking.
wing chun has the four quandrants and kali has the 8 lines of attack.

both do low kicks.

I am sure I am missing alot but it seems a natural connection, maybe this is why Bruce Lee gravitated to the filipino style. I know he did alot of other things to but it seems he had a solid connection with Dan Inosanto.

By the way I am not a bruce lee fan just see him as a bridge to the 2 styles.

 
Hi Chris, despite the fact that Wing Chun and the FMA are highly effective systems of combat they don't have much in common. The way of teaching is completely different. The novice student of Wing Chun will start learning the empty hand system first. After years of training and after he/she has mastered the hands he/she will be taught the long pole and the knives. The beginner in FMA will start learning the stick and knife work. Later on he/she will learn to fight without weapons. In Wing Chun there are forms (Siu Nim Tau, Cham Kiu ...) a student has to practise over and over again. There are NO forms in the FMA. Let's put it this way: Wing Chun is a boxing style. The weapons were added to the system. FMA is the art of knife and stick fighting. Advanced students will be able to adopt the weapon techniques in an empty hand fight.

Regards,

Bernd.
 
Bruce never gravitated to the filipino arts, he never practiced them. Thats all a big misconception because he used sticks once in a movie. He never did filipino arts, that was all guru Dan.

The concepts between wing chun and kali might be similar, but the techniques are'nt the same. Both are worth learning.

breaker
 
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