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咏 Wing Chun Gongfu 春

What is Wing Chun? and then attempt to always conform to it you will
never be able to deal with even the most basic fighter
Wing Chun is unique among all of the martial arts
in a real fight.
with the result that it, perhaps not unexpectedly, is
widely misunderstood. By comparison, Wing Chun
arrived quite late into the martial arts scene and long
after other arts had been exposed to the public
(especially in the West). Consequently, the public,
media commentators and practitioners of other arts
looked upon Wing Chun with their own
preconceptions with what a martial art should be. If
some of them decide to take up the study of Wing
Chun, they typically bring with them their previous
conceptions and experiences, and expect to practice
it as they would any of the other arts, which,
unfortunately, is not true to Wing Chun's concepts,
principles, and training methods.
Wing Chun was designed holistically, based on the
laws of physics, human nature and biomechanics. It
Wing Chun secrets?
was also designed with economy, efficiency, and
Wing Chun forms have much more behind them productivity in mind; therefore, it is for everyone.
than just fighting techniques. In fact, Wing Chun Unlike other martial arts, it doesn’t focus on making
forms were designed to fool spies into thinking that a person larger, rugged, acrobatic, or animal-like; but 2014 Venues & Schedule
it is a very lame fighting art. In other words, what focuses on developing good structure and power
you see is NOT what you get. The founders of Wing through knowledge of biomechanics and physics. Venues dates contact
Chun encrypted many hidden messages in the This allows a person to optimize his/her existing
movements that even most Wing Chun practitioners body to maximum potential. Thus, it is possible for may 31 Niles Maxwell
are not aware of. This is why many teachers are male and female of all ages and sizes to train in Wing & june nilesma@yahoo.com
STUTTGART
unable to provide any clear explanation for the Chun. Although the training doesn’t delve into hard 1
movements they are performing. At best, they conditioning, it subtly conditions the tendons,
explain the movements as fighting applications in muscles, and organs required for the purpose.
the most obvious and simplistic what-you-see-is-what- ZURICH JUNE Ben Buchli
Wing Chun is a training program based on a concept 7&8 bbuchli@ethz.ch
you-get manner by placing a person in front, behind,
of fighting as perceived by the founders of the art. It
or at the side of a movement, and calling the
is not a “style of fighting,” since fighting, per se, has
movement a strike, block, or kick. Even a child
no style -- and this is true of any martial art. You BARCELONA JUNE Rafael Avella
could come up with such explanations! If the 14 & rafael_avella@yah
can be a practitioner of Karate, Taekwondo, Jujitsu,
founders of Wing Chun wished the art to be 15 oo.es>
Boxing, or Wing Chun, but your actions in a real
secretive, they certainly wouldn't have designed the
fighting situation will not appear anything like they
forms to be deciphered so easily. Daniel Xuan has ANTWERP JUNE eddie
do in a sparring session with your fellow students. If
finally cracked the code. Come to the workshop to 21 &22 hodemniaceddych
you treat your martial art training program as a style @gmail.com>
see if he indeed has done that!

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