Sparring gives you some isolated experiences of timing and power, but sticky hand helps you learn the linkages between all the principles and the related control. Sticky hand makes your practice grow and enriches what you learn from trying out things and experiences. Conquering the physical part of Wing Chun heightens your own personal internal growth. Both in doing well in the physical and the spiritual you have to learn how to conquer your ego. Do not be greedy in hitting or a slave to a technique and you can perhaps see the universal law of personal truth, kindness and patience.
People sometimes miss seeing aspects of their teacher.
Whatever Yip Man s shortcomings may have been he didn t criticize other martial artists or his contemporaries. Nowadays sometimes students think that the Sifu is holding back or deceiving them. It's not necessarily true. Sometimes the student is not ready for the teaching. When the student is ready the teacher is there.