I don't plan on flying to Canada to spar with some Old Timer who spends his saturdays karate chopping boards.
I had a wing chung guy at my last job. He used to like talking about martial arts with me as that was the peak of my MMA training. I asked if he wrestled, and he said they don't have to because they train takedown defence. I kindly pointed out that so do wrestlers, but that's the point of offensive wrestling - to take down people who know how to stuff them. He was a nice bloke, but he said with such arrogance that "we don't get taken down by wrestlers" and actually laughed while he said it.
I asked him if I could try to take him down and he agreed. He is a big 120kg guy (I'm 77kg) and I easily doubled legged him. I'm by no means a phenomenal wrestler.
When you train these defensive martial arts at old school dojos where you train to parlay strikes, you get blinded by the coaches telling you this is the real way to fight. You learn to 'spar' by exchanging memorised, telegraphed combinations. I know because I did various karates as a kid/in my early teens. Once I started MMA, all that shit went out the window. It may work in a real life situation against someone who doesn't know hwo to fight, but it's ignorant and borderline idiotic to think that any defensive martial art like wing chung, krav maga or point fighting styles would be effective in a fight with a trained MMA practitioner.
Otherwise, they'd be doing it in MMA.
But keep breaking those boards old fella