What is Wing Chun kung fu?

What is wing chun kung fu?

Wing chun is a close-range martial art, designed to quickly incapacitate an aggressor. The aim is to finish a fight quickly, employing the use of correct body structure and distance, economy of motion and efficient energy use to defeat the opponent. Through the use of simple hand techniques, low-level kicking, and basic footwork, you are encouraged to seek the most direct, efficient, and simple response to a situation.

How is the system structured?

The Wing Chun system itself is quite simple in comparison to other Kung Fu styles and contains fewer forms. It is concept based, opening the possibility to a variety of applications from each movement in the form, instead of fixed techniques. This opens the possibility for deep exploration if you understand what you are doing.

The style consists of:

  • Three empty hand forms:
    • Siu Nim Tao
    • Cham Kiu
    • Bil Gee
  • The wooden Dummy form (Muk Yan Jong)
  • Two weapon forms
    • The six and a half point pole (Luk dim poon kwan)
    • The eight slashing knives/Butterfly knives (Bart Cham Dao)
bong sau

What are the benefits of Wing Chun?

Repeated study develops:

A skilled

practitioner

DEVELOP

Control

GOOD

Good coordination and reflexes

BETTER

Determination and patience

IMPROVED

self-confidence and self-discipline

UNDERSTANDING

Body mechanics

“Loy Lau Hoi Sung, Lut Sau Jik Chung”
— Receive what comes, follow what goes, rush in upon disconnection

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WING CHUN HISTORY

Wing chun (Eternal Springtime) is a traditional style of Kung Fu, created over 300 years ago, with roots in southern China around the Foshan region of Canton. There are many fables about how the style was founded, most of which cannot be verified. Recent research points to a monk called Miu Shin who fused the snake like flexible body movements of his internal snake boxing (Ermei 12 zhuang) with a softer White Crane Kung Fu system that he learnt from Ng Mui, to create the style…  …read more

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SOME CONCEPTS FROM OUR ACADEMY

Diagram Wing Chun is what we practice here at Barcelona Wing Chun. This is the method of kung fu that I have learnt from Sifu Michael Louison. When I first met Sifu Louison and watched him and his students practising at his school in London, I was amazed by how easily they moved, how they could attack and defend along countless lines, and how the martial art they did looked so clean and perfectly applied, even under pressure… …read more

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HISTORIA DEL WING CHUN

The best way to explain the path is that, it deals with diagrams going from different angles, such as the straight line, triangle, circle and the square box concepts.

In each diagram one is doing different things, attacking and defending, changing structure all the time, going through different paths of attack in combat… …read more

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