"Do you suppose they will choose to make war against lean, solid dogs rather than against fat and tender sheep?"
in which we meditate on what Wing Chun has to do with the historical European martial art (HEMA) of British World War II combat master W.E. Fairbairn, late of the Shanghai Municipal Police W.E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) of the pre-war Shanghai Municipal Police. More than anyone else in the 20th century, Anglo-Chinese expatriate W.E. Fairbairn shaped... Continue Reading →
So it feels like an ever-new mystery to get overpowered in fight training by short, thin, or otherwise gracile people who, it seems to me, can’t possibly have as much power. Not just outmaneuvered and outskilled, but manhandled or just plain pounded. I’m talking thin teenagers, featherweight women, even a girl who’s too young for PG-13 and weighs less than my checked luggage. What gives?