Among the many lineages of the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun, the Wong Shun Leung lineage stands out as one of the most influential and well-known. Wong Shun Leung was one of the top students of Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, and helped spread Ip Man’s teachings around the world. This article will examine …
The Leung Ting lineage is one of the largest branches of Wing Chun Kung Fu founded by Grandmaster Yip Man. Leung Ting was Yip Man’s private student and opened his first Wing Chun school in Hong Kong in the late 1960s. Over the next 50 years, Leung Ting’s Wing Tsun lineage spread to Europe, the …
The Wing Chun Kung Fu style has several pieces of training equipment which have become iconic. These include the long pole (shown in the photo above), the wallbag, and the butterfly swords, but the single most. iconic piece of training equipment is the Wooden Dummy, which has come to symbolize the style. The Wing Chun …
Wing Chun is a Chinese martial art with a rich history, originating from the Shaolin Kung Fu lineage. It is a system that emphasizes structure, economy of movement, and directness, making it an efficient form of combat. The art has produced many famous masters throughout its history, each contributing their unique techniques and skills to …
WING CHUN KUNG FU THE MASTERS WHO SHAPED THE ART OF COMBAT Read More »
n recent years, a number of interesting new styles have been created which I consider to be offshoots of Wing Chun kung fu, which I wanted to look at and discuss. First of all, because Wing Chun is an evolving art, it is difficult to draw the line as to when changes and evolutions have …
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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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 first video above is of Emin Boztepe, a Wing Chun master, who …
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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 …
TO CHAIN PUNCH OR NOT CHAIN PUNCH THAT IS THE QUESTION Read More »
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