I’d be interested to hear what you think about Wing Revolution/ Wing Fight, founded by Victor Gutierrez, who spent many years in the EWTO. According to him, the system was developed as a “logical evolution” of the traditional Wing Tsun style. Has anyone trained in this system, is it any useful and what do you think about this kind of “improving” of already existing martial arts?

I’m also curious about opinions on people who split from the EWTO, created their own organizations, and teach supposedly “better” versions of the original Wing Tsun. Even though these people often criticized the EWTO’s business model, they essentially did the same thing — just under a different name.

I’m especially interested in opinions on Hans-Jörg Reimers/ WMAA and his Wing Tsung, and Hans Remmel with his ISMA Wyng Tjun. My instructor trained under Reimers for many years, but later switched to Chris Collins in Hong Kong, saying that European instructors did not understand the principles of Wing Chun and that he had to re-learn many things. Despite holding a high technical rank from the EWTO and WMAA, he even demoted himself back to a student, claiming that Wing Chun in Hong Kong is completely different, and therefore he couldn’t use the rank of an organization that has been teaching him many principles and techniques incorrectly for years.

Do you consider organizations like the WMAA, EBMAS, ISMA etc. to be high-quality schools, or are they just money-making entities that internally aren’t much different from the EWTO?