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How Would A Mixture Of Judo And Wing Chun Be Good For Self Defence?

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How would a mixture of Judo and Wing Chun be good for self defence? What would its strengths and weaknesses be?

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4 Responses to "How Would A Mixture Of Judo And Wing Chun Be Good For Self Defence?"

  • judomofo says:
    12/02/2010 at 04:21

    Hard to say, to a degree it is good for hand to hand self defense.
    Judo prepares you tremendously for moving with intensity and purpose, you spar at full speed with your opponent trying to beat you, this translates well to fights.
    Wing Chun it really depends on how you are training, if the most you do is push hands, and punching bags and working dummies, it isn’t going to teach you effectively how to use it in the streets, nor will you develop a combat reflex from it. You need full speed sparring, with head contact (controlled or padded) to give you an idea of now only where the timing and openings are, but also how to defend yourself from punches.
    It is hard to go straight weakness because it is really how you train.
    Major weakness is that little time will be spent in either one going over weapons, and the philosophies of how to deal with them. The weakness that approaching any self defense situation from a hand to hand standpoint, weapons or deploying weapons should be a primary, with empty hand tactics secondary.
    Neither art will really drill into you what a TRUE self defense scenario is, or the laws regarding it.
    Neither art will give you the most effective self defense tactic in the world, having a good head on your shoulders, the ability to talk your way out of situations, and the ability to recognize a potential hostile or unsafe environment before going there. In reality neither art really helps you develop situational or environmental awareness.
    From a hand to hand stand point, when trained properly, and in cojuction with another they could be very effective, but keep in mind there is more than just empty hand techniques involve when it comes to real self defense.

  • Derek says:
    12/02/2010 at 09:54

    it could be a good combination. depending on where you study your styles. I trained wing chun for a little while under somebody who got his rank online through video courses. and judo can also employ small joint locks (wrists and fingers) which would be ideal.
    strength= great hand skill and skill on the ground and throws. it would be hard to take you down. you will get some good speed and you will have better reflexes than most. with wing chun you get some basics then you do mainly sparring so in that respect you will get good at sparring really quickly. but you also need to practice the mixed aspect and combine the two in sparring matches.
    weakness= wing chun isn’t known for their kicks, if you were to go against somebody like a tae kwon do practitioner without experiencing the kicks they do you have the possibility of being picked apart the force of wing chun is limited. where boxing style punches use the biceps, triceps, pecs, back, and lats. wing chun uses almost solely the tricep and some back. so there is a huge decrease in striking power. also some of the concepts of wing chun can be misleading. if you hold your arms off the body in a wing chun stance you are constantly firing the muscles so your strikes will be weaker still.
    all and all the combination would be rather effective.

  • Tony says:
    12/02/2010 at 11:20

    judo is great with any martial arts.all the best study judo from bruce lee to actor james cagney.

  • Ricky says:
    12/02/2010 at 13:38

    It would be a good combo. Its good to have a stand up and another style like throwing (judo).

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