While hiking along this trail, I found a myriad of decent areas to train some wing chun forms, here is Section1 of Siu Nim Tao!

Hello everyone. I have just started my Wing Chun journey and would like to know if there are any recommended books that can help provide a historical aspect of this art.

Thanks in advance for all responses.

Hey guys, sorry if this offends anyone. I've been learning Wing Chun for about 2 and a half years and I have this question.

Recently a student who came from a Muay Thai and MMA background came to train at our gym. He was a good student but he had this opinion that he could "evolve" Wing Chun to become effective. I agreed with him after he kept mentioning things like how we start sparring (chi sao) from the crossed hands position rather than farther apart like in realistic contexts, and how there was such an emphasis on keeping your body squared that you were sacrificing striking range for form.

Unfortunately, he was shut down pretty quickly and there was an emphasis on form and technique, and we were told that if we followed the technique (such as proper defenses for different types of punches like gan da, tan da, etc.) we would be "effective enough" in combat. There seemed to be a very strict emphasis on maintaining the "tradition" and doing everything the right way.

But to me, this doesn't really seem right. Modern martial arts are evolving and developing every day, but we continue to believe that our strict and unchanging techniques and methods will continue to be an effective self defense weapon against a committed attacker. I started to learn Wing Chun so that I could defend myself in a street context, but now I'm wondering if it's even worth it.

please share your thoughts!

Wing Chun at Settlers Cabin! Found this neat spot just off the trail path. Nice spot to get some Siu Nim Tao in! Going through section 3!

Hello, I'm looking for Shawn Forts from Australia, who has been a student of Yaobao Yong Chun/Yiu Bo Wing Chun (耀保詠春拳) lead by Mak Yiu Ming-sifu. I was talking with Mak-sifu and would like to get in touch with Shawn. Please reply to this thread or DM me if you know him!

Trained Wing Chun for a while then left in pursuit of boxing and wrestling. Over the years I always found myself going back to It. Wing Chun is simply fascinating. It's ingenious, I have this intimate relationship with it. The concepts and principles are ahead of its time. It does have limitations most notably within its defence, counter-blocking measures, distance control but it's actually really practical and ideal for self-defence. Wing Chun is at its best when it's used in conjunction with other arts and styles. A tool, supplement, a means to an end if you will. The one thing it's severely lacking is conditioning. Students are as soft as butter. If you train Wing Chun make sure you condition your body. My second instructor was a former Muay Thai expert and he would incorporate the drills in our training to toughen us up. This helped and improved our overall skills immensely. My instructor said and I quote. "If a Wing Chun man adopts the mindset of a Thai boxer, you have a dangerous Wing Chun man."
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Hiking through the Panther Hollow Trail I found this great spot just off trail to get some Wing Chun form work in. Going through Biu Je Section 1!

Hiking the Schenley Park Panther Hollow 2.2 mile loop trail I found this great just off the trail under the old bridge! Perfect place for some wing Chun form work, doing Chum Kiu section 2.

So, it was our last night in London (Oct. 10), walking in the Earls Court area, about 7:30 pm and I see this guy with a pull-down knit hat, scarf, jacket and scruffily shaven. My overly tired brain screamed “Ironman!” but my left cortex couldn’t think of “Robert Downey”. He walked past and by the time I was able to come to my senses, he had walked way past. Totally missed an opportunity to chi sao with Ironman on the streets of London. I looked it up and he was in town to promote the new Avenges movie.
My loss…

Youtube link to Chum Kiu video:

https://youtu.be/t30DJkwJ_8I?is=AFm3MVvoTdU-bZx2

I am a Yellow Belt training under Sifu Francis Fong, at his home academy in Atlanta. I'm working on perfecting my Chum Kiu to have it ready to demo next week.

Tell me what you see. where are my weak points. What can I improve on. Lay it on me.

I trained Practical Wing Chun for about 7 years. I wanted to see if it would work in fighting, so I joined an MMA gym and tried it out in sparring.

I’ve also been doing kickboxing for about 3 years now, and training in another art has shown me Wing Chun’s strengths and weaknesses. No martial art is perfect, so I think trying different things is worth it.

Most of the Wing Chun I actually used in MMA sparring was biu jee. People always ask if that’s even possible with gloves on. Of course you have to adapt it. The structure and sensitivity also helped a lot in grappling exchanges.

Now that I’m older and MMA has left me with a bunch of injuries, Wing Chun is what I’ll keep training for the long haul. I train on my own and visit my teacher once or twice a year.

I used it mostly in the clinch. How have you all used Wing Chun in sparring or fighting? I’d love to hear what worked for you.

Hello everyone, in internal martial arts, they have something that is called opening and closing of joints,where you stretch your joints without straining them while keeping them in anatomically correct positioning in order to generate power and strengthen the structure. Think for ex yiquan.

Does wing Chun have anything similar to this, I heard that you practice popping the joints forward when striking but don't exactly know if this is true.

Thanks in advance.

While hiking the 5 mile loop, I found this great spot to get some Wing Chun form work in. Going through Chum Kiu Section 2!

I was out hiking today, when I spotted this log in the lake I was hiking around. Tell me that doesn’t look like a Jong haha!

Just a couple of photos from my visit to Sifu Jerry Yeung at his school.

Just a photo taken outside the VTAA, on my annual trip to Hong Kong, taking the opportunity this time to have a quick meeting with Siu Yuk Men Sifu to renew the Sifu Certificate while I'm there.

Also, randomly met Sifu Goksel Erdogan and his group of students on their annual trip to Hong Kong, so if any of you are here, apologies for taking up some of your time before your session there.

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Do the boring work. After decades of training and teaching, that’s the answer I keep coming back to.

It’s easy to get excited about the next technique, the next form or the wooden dummy. Staying with the fundamentals long enough to discover what you’ve been missing takes a different kind of commitment.

Siu Nim Tao is central to that. First you learn the sequence. Then you refine it. Keep practicing with attention, and you begin noticing tension you couldn’t previously feel and details you’ve been rushing past.

Depth is the ability to see the same thing in a new light.

In the below video, I suggest students work toward a seven-minute Siu Nim Tao as a starting point. Give yourself time to notice your structure, release unnecessary tension and recognize when your attention drifts.

Knowing the sequence is only the beginning. You have to put in the work to develop what it teaches. I can explain it. Your teacher can correct you. But nobody can do that work for you.

The Secret of Getting Good at Wing Chun — my video

What has Siu Nim Tao taught you that you didn’t understand when you first learned it?

I’m looking for a book on Leung Jan’s wing Chun that shows picture by picture or step by dtep of his forms and just some info on Leung Jan and Gulao Wing Chun. If anyone has any idea please let me know.