I'm not Scott, but I'll see what I can do
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Originally Posted by BLACK PANTA Oh yeah scott speaking of side of hands, Do you all use/train in knife hands a lot. Or is it just a nice to know kinda thing? I know the general philosophy behind WC (very general at that, nothing extensive at all). |
The way I've learned it we strike with just about all parts of the hand/arm. If by knife hand you mean simply striking with the side of the hand, then there are plenty of times when you'll see someone strike (especially to the chest or throat) with the entire side of the forearm/hand and use a fook sao movement to put extra power into it. This movement can be done at extremely close range and has great stopping power. If you mean in the sense of a "karate chop", I've never seen one done, but at the highest levels Wing Chun is more of a way of fighting than a collection of any particular techniques, so it's entirely possible that someone using Wing Chun might use such a strike.
TKDman: Wing Chun is extremely versatile. In my opinion it mixes extremely well with most arts, partly because it specializes in a range that most arts neglect, and partly because it's very broad in its applications. The biggest conflict I see would be between the TKD stance and Wing Chun structure, but plenty of people use Muay Thai at kicking range and Wing Chun at close range, so I don't see why it couldn't work; on the contrary I think it would do a lot to cover some of TKD's biggest weaknesses.