I would like to share with my readers a good topic at moment, a topic concerning our wonderful art of Weng Chun Kung Fu and the mma.
MMA it is a fighting sport competition, which in the early times was born, to let, all kind of martial artist, meet together in one tournament to demonstrate who and which martial art could be, the best.
In this tournament you could strike, wrestle and fight on the ground.
Since twenty years this kind of competition became very popular in all the world.
In the name of my style Weng Chun Kung Fu being an advanced teacher and a professional fighter (in the mma circuit) i feel the duty to make some points about those disciplines.
Weng Chun is an ART, it is not only born as a fighting style but as a DIAMOND (as GGM Wai Yan used to call it), it shines in many directions for who decide to choose, like me, as a real lifestyle.
It is a fighting style, healthy physical and mental training.
As a fighting style it is very accurate in different aspect of it:
empty hand fighting (for self defense and advanced aspects of combat)
weapons fighting system (two main weapons: double swords and long pole)
Qi Gong and Philosophy
The fighting knowledge of Weng Chun is based on three main substances, Buddha (heaven) Dharma (man) Sanga (earth).
The way you combine them make everyone able to fight in different environments and competitions.
The main tools to improve your fighting skill and the substances mentioned above (heaven, man and earth), are:
Forms
Techniques
Principles
Work
Art
The forms are the way to build up combinations of techniques in your fights, they are selected by principles which will let them work in any environment and in the end you can feel connected and be one with art, expressing the art which is in you.
This is the reason why i do competitions, (it is a sort of meditation for me, to be connected with time, space and gravity).
This is the key to read the weng chun fighter's movements; he will always take care of Heaven (striking) Man (wrestling) Earth (ground fighting), his fighting position will be controlling the three main hights (look at the photos), he will move without any gap, because his striking, wrestling and ground fighting game is one style, and his power is builded up from the main work of FORMS.
If i compete in the MMA circuit it is because i am a Weng Chun fighter and not a MMArtist, because this one (in my opinion) does not exist.
Sifu Cesario Di Domenico
