You do not know enough about it to understand what is the "basics" nor how to do them correctly. All you would be doing is teaching yourself bad habits which if you did happen to join a school later the teacher will have to spend a great deal of time correcting those bad habits you developed. In the end, it would take you longer to re-learn the basics properly than if you just started from zero experience.
Wooden dummy training is not "basic". It is in fact an intermediary to advance training.
Might as well.
Ask any Wing Chun teacher and he or she will tell you every other WC teacher in the area is a rubbish teacher or learned from a fraudulant lineage, here's the funny part - ask all the other teachers about the first guy or gal and without you even pointing out that he/she badmouthed them they'll all explain that he/she came from a fraudulant lineage or doesn't know the 'real' wing chun.
Nope.
Next question.
Wing Chun is a waste of time anyway.
No. it's not possible!
No. Even if you were to learn the forms or katas, and the wooden dummy techniques, you'd still be missing out on chi sau - "sticky hands" training. That kind of training is teaching you sensitivity to your opponent's push and pull. You can't learn that by yourself.
So I was wondering could you teach yourself Wing Chun and could you do it by yourself? I'm not planning to learn everything by myself, just a few basics until I find a master.
Any suggestions? Websites, books? Also, I don't have a wooden dummy, can't afford that right now, so is there anything I could use in the place of that?
Thank ya!
