After About 7 Years Punches Are More Rooted With Less "Force" but Much More Power. Very Little Upper Body Strength is Used in Advanced Wing Chun. "Fa Jin" is Much More Evident.

In Advanced Wing Chun "Something" Takes over and The Fighter has No Idea of What Happened. This is Given Many Names but is Just Highly Perceptive Intuition and Fine Tuned Awareness and Kinistetics. This is The Reason for Chi Sao Training. To Totally Develop Intuition, Awareness and Feel. There is No Thinking in Chi Sao (Mushin). The Reason Why Advance Chi Sau is Done Blindfolded is to Totally Get You out of "Planning" and the Slowness of "Hand to Eye" Fighting. CHI SAO IS NOT FIGHTING! It is to Change Perception from Intellect to Intuition.

Even UFC Champion Chuck Lidell trained in Kempo for 10 Years Which Makes him One of the Most Powerful Strikers in the UFC. Although Kempo is Not Considered "Internal", After 10 Years Most Martial Artists become More Internal and and use Less Muscle Force (Li)

At an advanced level you are using very little muscle force (Li). Your hands "shoot" out like bullets with power coming from Ground to Hips to Waist, elbow and hands. This becomes almost pure internal Wing Chun. The power comparison is like Pushing an arrow into a target with you arm, as opposed to shooting it from a bow.

There is actually very little I use from Wing Chun as far as techniques. Less is More for me. The Chi Sao training helped me a lot but for my weight and size I am very aggressive and have never stepped back or used any "defensive" moves or blocks. I also learned some basic ground fighting because many fighters train in BJJ now. I have no plans to compete so I basically wanted the basics and Spawl Training. That is what I trained in privately in Fort Lauderdale before I went to Arizona. In Arizona I trained with one of Augustine Fong's senior students.

For "Self Defense" I recommend CCW Permit and a good quality handgun either revolver or semi-auto. My favorites are the Sig Sauer P229, HK USP Compact .40 and S&W 386PD, a K frame, Scandium/Titanium .357 Magnum with light-gathering sights that fires seven rounds and weighs 18 ounces. I don't recommend using .357 rounds, .38 or 38+P are more than enough. These are just for muggers and car jackers... For the real thing, my choice is the popular AR 15 (.223). My favorite is the SIG 556 SWAT, not an AR 15 but uses .223/5.56 NATO. I also like the PLR 16 Pistol... Unarmed defense will get you in more legal trouble than a Defensive Weapon. Unless you compete, you should not fight for ego's sake.