"flowery fists and embroidery kicks", does not negate it as a fighting style.

Dan Docherty, a Hong Kong police inspector and TC student, won the open category of the Southeast Asian Chinese Full Contact Championships in Malaysia in 1980.

The HK police had frequent fights with the Triads.

If you're learning forms, you need to know the various forces of the technique, what it's countering and what it can chain onto in a variety of different scenarios.

Incidentally, Tai Chi has something as rapid as Wing Chun's chain punch, but uses a rotating tiger claw.

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A nice thing about Filipino styles is that techniques remain the same from empty hand to sticks to knives. Escrima is often taught in JKD.