What do you think of Wing Chun and it's practicality in street figthing or vs. MMA?

Wing chun is a good art for close quarters self defense. If you have to defend yourself in a narrow hallway, an elevator, or between two parked cars, having some skills in wing chun would come in handy for those situations. As with all martial arts, it’s only as good as the practitioner.

I’ll try my hardest not to be rude to anyone who trains in any martial art, but I’ve trained both and can tell you MMA is better for the street. Just think critically about these martial arts. MMA fighters can break peoples bones, knock them out, and take strikes really well. Don’t believe me? Watch some fights! Wing Chun has no credibility. It says it can knock people out, break bones, etc. but at the end of the day, there’s no way to prove it beyond speculation and ancient myths. MMA you can PROVE is effective by watching someone armbar another person and then break their arm, and that’s happened multiple times! In Wing Chun, yeah you see a fight on YouTube every once in a while where a guy gets lucky a wins a fight, but at the end of the day that doesn’t prove it’s effectiveness due to lack of consistency. MMA has also had a military combat style modeled after it: MAC-P (Modern Army Combatatives program), which is used by the entire U.S. Army and trained by some in other branches as well. If Wing Chun really worked, there would be evident proof, but there is not. With MMA, there is evident proof.

Source(s): Years of martial arts training in MMA, Wing Chun, and multiple other arts

I think it’s a solid supplementary system. In other words, if you’re already competent in the fundamentals of stand-up and clinch striking, studying Wing Chun can introduce you to concepts and techniques that can be very useful.

I think if you tried to use it on its own, it would take a long time to achieve a level of workability against a kickboxer or MMA fighter.

I think it would be alright for self defense, but again, would recommend blending it with other martial arts.

I trained Wing Chun for a while, and regularly free-sparred against guys who were much better at it than I was. By this time, I’d also had a solid background in karate, boxing, and submission wrestling- you know a basic MMA blend- and really didn’t have a whole lot of trouble poking holes in the Wing Chun structure. While it’s very good at doing some things, it’s much, much worse at others. It’s crap at defending leg dive takedowns and doesn’t deal with boxing punches very well, nor is it great at defending the areas that are likely to be attacked. Most of their strikes also come from only one direction, straight down the middle, which is OK against an untrained opponent, but not great against someone with any descent head movement or footwork

I’d recommend boxing or Muay Thai over Wing Chun to someone who has never studied martial arts before.

Compared to MMA, Wing Chun is obviously not as effective. MMA is many martial arts, Boxing for Powerful Hands, speed and power, Wrestling for taking down someone/slamming them, BJJ to subdue an opponent when you take them down. And Muay Thai for Leg attacks…not to mention other styles like Sambo, Greco Roman, Judo and many others…Wing Chun is just one style and one style that doesn’t actually work as efficiently as it’s people make it out to be. And I’m not bashing Wing Chun, I say it’s useless t olearn not because of the art itself..but because 90% of the schools that teach it aren’t even teaching the right techniques..I’m sure if you found a legit school you might be able to use it. But overall in a fight an MMA fighter would dominate on the street or against another Wing Chun practicioner since he doesn’t limit himself to one martial art.

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