Efficient Warrior Wing Chun

DIRECT IP MAN LINEAGE

Efficient Warrior Wing Chun is taught from the DIRECT LINEAGE of the LEGENDARY Grandmaster Ip Man, teacher of Superstar Bruce Lee. Our Lineage flows in a direct line from Ip Man through his son Grandmaster Ip Ching, to one of his most senior disciples Master Edmund Fong to the Founder of Efficient Warrior and our Unique Application Philosophy, Sifu Tony Massengill.

WHAT MAKES WHAT WE TEACH DIFFERENT?

While we teach the Ip Man Wing Chun SYSTEM as it is passed through our lineage, what makes our method unique is the Practical Street Experience brought to our tactical application from the Efficient Warrior Advisory Council. The council is a group of Law Enforcement, Military and Martial Art professionals who together over the years have been instrumental in the shaping of what we call the Efficient Warrior Doctrine, a set of principles that drive the focus of our "Real World" application approach.

While other "Instructors" teach based on "Theory and Imagination" (what we refer to as Virgins teaching Sex Ed.), we teach application based on the "Real World" experience of "Door Kickers" who have been hands on with violent subjects in the truly No-Holds Barred environment of the street, not just the Ring, Cage, or Dojo.

BUT I HEARD MMA BEATS WING CHUN RATHER EASILY?

IF ... looking at Wing Chun as a Sport Competition method, I would say that I am somewhat in agreement... In competition you have a need to close the gap between yourself and the other guy to "beat" him. Wing Chun is not designed for that job. Wing Chun is designed to be a "self-defender" method, not a "boxing, cage fighting or street fighting" method. And this is a very important distinction.

Wing Chun is a get my thumb in the bad guys eye method, a break the bad guys ankle method. Trying to utilise Wing Chun in a ring or cage is taking a vehicle out of its intended useful environment. Like trying to use a snowmobile on a river or a race boat in the snow. They are not designed for nor efficient for those environments.

In self defense, the gap between the aggressor and the defender is the burden of the aggressor. There is no need for the Wing Chun man to close that gap. and if he really had a justified need to close that gap, he should never do so with empty hands. Self-defense is not sport, and sport isn't self defense. Too many other factors come into play in an altercation when there are no rules or barriers.

MMA TRAINS FOR "THE KNOWN" THE SELF-DEFENDER IS ALWAYS DEALING WITH "THE UNKNOWN"

It was Baseball's legendary Yoggi Barra who said "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there" The first step of any journey is to pick a destination. If your destination (goal) is to be a professional fighter, your journey will be different than the guy who gets into the martial arts with the end goal of developing the skills to defend himself and his family.

One is a journey into a combat sport, where you will be training to be in top physical condition, and you will be fighting in an environment of “the known”! You will know in advance that you will be facing only one opponent, you will know where the fight will take place, you will know when the fight will occur, on what kind of surface, and under what rules you will be fighting. In many cases you will even know who you will be fighting. These are factors that the guy training for self protection in a sudden violent real-life encounter will never know.

The person training for self-protection has a lot more factors to consider than those of the combat sport fighter. The first consideration in self protection is that the environment you will likely be fighting in can be just as dangerous as the opponent you will be facing. No mats to protect you on the ground. Gravel, broken bottles, curbs, holes, uneven ground, ice, are all dangers of the street encounter. Nothing to keep the fight contained to a safe area. If you are knocked off balance, you aren't stopped by a cage fence or ring ropes. You will have stairways, windows and traffic to worry about! Then there is the concern of there being more than one opponent, weapons, and your possible need to, not only protect yourself, but your loved ones as well. And let's not forget the LEGAL and CIVIL LIABILITY that we face on the street that the MMA fighter NEVER has to worry about. We will not be entering a Legally Sanctioned sporting event, so our Rules of Engagement (in order to keep our backside out of jail) will be different!

The above factors are why we do not refer to combat sports as "Martial" arts. Combat sports are to a martial art (Self-Defense), what paintball is to a real gun fight. In paintball, if you are behind a car for cover and I am behind a car fifty feet away, I may break cover, taking the chance that you can't hit a moving target, to get a better shot at you. After all, the worst consequence of that decision is the sting of a paintball. In sport and play, with no danger of really bad consequences for bad decisions, you take chances you otherwise wouldn’t. I'm not taking that chance if we are in a gunfight with real guns and real bullets!

A tactic or technique that is great in a combat sport environment may get you killed in a violent encounter on the street.

In a stressful violent encounter, you don't rise to the occasion; you sink to your level of training. If you have trained for a "known rules and factors" environment, then you will not have the conditioned reflex to respond to the "no rules and unknown factors" situation as you will need to. The tactics you train will be what you respond with when caught by surprise and have that adrenalin dump caused by the physiological effects of the fight or flight syndrome. In a combat sport you train your body to respond as a conditioned reflex according to a set of rules by which the attacker in the street will not be limited.

So if the goal of your training is the ability to protect yourself in an incident of "Real World" violence, then Combat Sport training will leave you with a lot of unresolved needs.

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