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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Wing Chun Video
I'm getting interested in Wing Chun again, and my personal style is evolving into a close range combative style, but using a lot of the locks and chokes I've learnt through the years.
This video shows the quite brutal but practical nature of Wing Chun, and it looks as though the practicioners on the video have been watching a lot of UFC, as they showcase clinching and slipping from clinches, locking and choking.
Coming from a background of Shaolin Hung Gar Kuen (it is the style taught to the kids in my home village in Canton), I see a lot of similarities to Wing Chun, though of course Wing Chun is not developed from the same animal and meditation exercise roots of Shaolin, and is a much more purely combative style, but there are similar stances, close range punching, arm locking/breaking and choking elements.
One also might see similarities because when Hung Kuen was revolutionised by Wong Fei Hung and his student Lam Sai Wing, one imagines they incorporated other elements of the Southern styles from practicioners they came up against and traded blows, as any expert fighter would.
One sees this in Choy Li Fut and Chow Gar Kuen as they are both Southern styles, and the similarities with Hung Gar bears thinking about. Did practicioners and masters of different styles gather in the old days to talk shop like they do nowadays? Or was each style quite insular and stand offish, one wonders?
Anyway, check out the video, it's quite impressive.
This video shows the quite brutal but practical nature of Wing Chun, and it looks as though the practicioners on the video have been watching a lot of UFC, as they showcase clinching and slipping from clinches, locking and choking.
Coming from a background of Shaolin Hung Gar Kuen (it is the style taught to the kids in my home village in Canton), I see a lot of similarities to Wing Chun, though of course Wing Chun is not developed from the same animal and meditation exercise roots of Shaolin, and is a much more purely combative style, but there are similar stances, close range punching, arm locking/breaking and choking elements.
One also might see similarities because when Hung Kuen was revolutionised by Wong Fei Hung and his student Lam Sai Wing, one imagines they incorporated other elements of the Southern styles from practicioners they came up against and traded blows, as any expert fighter would.
One sees this in Choy Li Fut and Chow Gar Kuen as they are both Southern styles, and the similarities with Hung Gar bears thinking about. Did practicioners and masters of different styles gather in the old days to talk shop like they do nowadays? Or was each style quite insular and stand offish, one wonders?
Anyway, check out the video, it's quite impressive.
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I believe that the big mistake people make in regards to wing chun, is they believe that there is a absolute correct way to do wing chun. I believe wing chun was meant to be broken down and re-worked according to a persons understanding of keeping things simple.
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