Thanks to the Ip Man movies, Wing Chun is now the most well known Kung Fu Style. But for most of its 250 year history, Wing Chun was a little known style, which was taught in secret behind closed doors in private lessons or very small classes. The style was probably created from White Crane …
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Kick boxing can be defined as a martial art that uses western boxing for hand strikes, and eastern martial arts for kicks. This definition is a little too simple, as that definition would include arts like Savate, Muay Thai, and Sanda as kickboxing, when no one thinks of them as being the same thing. With …
Is wing chun effective? (And if wing chun doesn’t work, even though it was designed to be simple, straight forward,and practical, how can any other Chinese traditional martial art like Seven Star Praying Mantis, bagua hung gar, choy li fut, etc. possibly work?) The above video is of Emin Boztepe, a Wing Chun master, who was …
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Self-Defense teachers often tell the student “never kick in a street fight”. Wing Chun, however, is a style designed to work in real world street fights , and it has kicks. All lineages of Wing Chun, to my knowledge, while they do use kicks, don’t kick above the waist, and use kicks sparingly. Why? Because …
The video above, from Sifu Vik, a sifu in the Leung Ting lineage, demonstrates training the wing chun chain punch on the 3 sectional wallbag, and includes training double punches. The wing chun chain punch for self defense The chain punch is the technique most often associated with the Wing Chun Kung fu system, and …
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Although I have been practicing wing chun since 2005, I have always been curious about other traditional Chinese martial arts that look somewhat similar. One of these is Northern Praying Mantis, a Chinese Kung fu style and martial arts system which has some similar movements (though it lacks the signature wing chun chain punch) If …
I recently came across a youtube video by Lyte Burly which piqued my interest. Lyte Burly is a controversial and (to my view) charismatic practitioner and proponent of the Martial Arts Style called “52 blocks”. He has been putting out a series of videos which are critical or largely critical of Traditional Chinese Martial Arts. …
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