[quote=@Zero Hex]
So I take it Kyokushin stopped because it was just a college course that came to an end. Any reason why you picked Wing Chun rather than continue pursuing that line of karate or karate in general? Curious about when you picked it up too.

As for everything else, so it's just forms you learned off a college Kyokushin course and what I'm guessing was about six months of Wing Chun classes? Well, combined with practicing forms from other martial arts that you read about or saw on videos?

Curious about Wing Chun grappling, assuming it's centered on the standup clinch and arm/limb trapping. How do you train that on your own? Wooden dummy?
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Yes, the Oyama Karate was a college course. And it takes six months to [i]learn[/i] the forms of Wing Chun, and once you learn the forms, you can easily find out how they're used in proper application. And you got it right, the grappling is the limb trapping. And while it's easier to do it with a partner (which is why classes are good), as long as you learn the maneuvers, it's no big deal doing them on your own. They're literally just small moves put together to make a more complicated maneuver (same with various strikes), it's not like a whole dance that you do with no segmented parts. That's all any martial art is. 

Though for the grappling, there is only 3 basic maneuvers you need to learn, and the 2nd and 3rd are for if you're fighting someone relatively competent in Wing Chun. The first is good enough to redirect any bar fight punch.

And I started Wing Chun...early 2015? I only got a taste of Oyama Karate, and while the two are both close combat and strike oriented, Wing Chun derives its power from your stance, momentum, and speed whereas Kyokushin is more focused on your movements, ki, and center of gravity. But I learned strikes and kicks too, and a bit of Japanese from Kyokushin. Might take it back up again at some point. 

I own 3 books on Kung Fu, 1 book on Japanese concept of Ki, The Book of the 5 Rings, my Oyama Karate manual, and a small Tai Chi booklet (which I have yet to read). Out of all of those, I'd been most interested in Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, but since there are no courses for any styles of that nature around here, I chose Wing Chun, a southern style. That, and it was the basis of Bruce Lee's martial arts career. He took the basics of that to form Jeet Kune Do.

Also the Wing Chun courses are 40 a month while the Karate ones were 90 (if I wanted to continue them). I wanted to try out Brazilian Jiu Jitsu with my friend while my group found a new dojo, but that was a hell of a lot more expensive.