In my mind Wing Chun was designed to fight against people who can fight rather than most other systems that began life as exercises that developed over hundreds of years martial capabilities. Once the Shaolin system had become more openly taught and there were accomplishes fighterws on the street who did not live their lives by the tenets of the monks a system needed to be found to fast track real self defence and in my mind that was the precursor to Wing chun.

The only problem with how effective Wing Chun is against a street fighter in not in the system but how it has been either taught or practised.

Boxing can be a better fast track to general street defence but as it deals with essentially the same weapons as a street fighter minus kicks to the groin, eye gouging and biting, it would not prepare you for that level of violence, whereas Wing Chun when fully understood does.

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