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The working of time in combat

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Si Fu Julio Camacho preparing the old Nucleus "Jacareapaguá", in 2013 There is a common agreement that one punch was prepared in the past in direction of future. It's not uncommon for this statement to generate consensus among unsuspecting listeners. In a past we planned to punch something in future, can this something be a person or an object. The popular perspective that sees a punch how a unfolding of a "planning" (ponding) into a "result" (hit) contains several problems. These have been little valued in the world of martial arts. The past time (to prepare the punch) that drains towards future time (hit or miss) suposes a especific view of a subject who is thinking about time. The time viewed by a subject who places it in a flow that unfolds, creates a perspective of what we call "time flow" (past -> present -> future flow). We can compare this point o view over time with the view of a river that originated from a glacier

Can Ving Tsun be a self-defense system?

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Kung Fu is not strictly a martial system, but many different chinese systems with different aspects in each of them. These systems want to develop "Kung Fu". Each one of these systems give us variations created with the goal to provide us experiences to solve anyone problem that we may have in our day-to-day experience. Ving Tsun is one of these systems of variation, and  it was systematized by the founder Yim Ving Tsun. Ilustration of Yim Ving Tsun In this context is key to understand the Ving Tsun, to see that it is not only we see in videos ou photos created for show us the appliance of the system in real combat. Videos that give us combat demonstrations should be directed to give us access to concepts and ideas that support the scene. A punch is much more than a punch Master Julio Camacho and my Si Hing Claudio Teixeira Ving Tsun can not be summarized in a self-defense system, and the people who are trying to do this are not well intentioned. A combat momen