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What is Wing Chun?
Wing Chun is Simple, Direct, and Efficient.
Wing Chun's purpose is to stop an attack as fast as possible, by any means necessary, without compromising the user's safety.
Wing Chun is...
low, crippling kicks
eye gouges followed by the fastest punches in the world!
knees and elbows that are always in range and never miss their fragile targets
proprietary Chi Sau and Chi Gerk training to overwhelm the attacker's body and mind
In short, Wing Chun is the most efficient Un-armed fighting system ever devised. Sure, there are other Effective fighting systems. But none tops Wing Chun for Efficiency.
Why clutter your mind (under stress) with a Rolodex of techniques? Do More With Less!
One kick (Stomp or Thrust Kick)
One punching method (Chain Punches)
One defensive position (1350 Rule)
One Response for every scenario (Universal Solution)
Wing Chun's efficiency is rooted in Scientific concepts that take the guess work out of Practical Defense:
The Wedge Theory - Use the 4 dimensions like a snow plow!
Magnetic Zone Theory - When and where to strike, and with what!
Center Line Theory - Beat him to the next punch with positioning!
Continuous Forward Spring Pressure - Persistence that finds openings!
Wing Chun has a limited selection of tools but knows when and how to use them with devastating effect. We use 'specificity with variety' to train the same tools over and over for a variety of scenarios (thanks Bud Jeffries!). Our Multi-Range Effectiveness includes:
Stand-Up to Groundfighting
Single and Multiple Attackers
Visual and Tactile Stimuli
So that's what Wing Chun is. What is it NOT?
No kicks above the waist
No exotic, immobile stances
No wild, wasted movements
No acrobatic or aerial displays
No Bare Feet
No Nonsense
Wing Chun History (abbreviated)
Wing Chun was developed and taught secretly from the 1700's until the 1940's. It was then that the late Grandmaster Yip Man began to selectively teach the paying public.
As the owner, instructor, and perpetual student of Wing Chun, I personally don't care whether it was inspired by observing the fight between a fox and crane; a fighting nun who trained a village girl for protection from a bully; or was a secret anti-Manchu training method.
All I know is that it works and I can prove WHY scientifically through geometry, physics, and musculo-skeletal mechanics.
Wing Chun continues to owe much of its popularity to Bruce Lee, who studied it under Yip Man from 1954-57 before moving to the U.S. It is said he only had a fraction of the whole system (2 of the 6 forms), but what he did have was extraordinary. He would later use Wing Chun as the foundation for a new system, which he named Jeet Kune Do.
*NOTE: Wing Chun is the accepted generic spelling and pronunciation for a fighting system that has spread around the world and continues to evolve in each active school.
Its first English spelling was Ving Tsun. Diverse geography, lineages, and spin-offs have led to at least a dozen different spellings (all of which are pronounced the same).
This school's lineage runs from the late GM Yip Man (Ving Tsun) to Leung Ting (Wing Tsun) to Emin Boztepe (Wing Tzun).
So, generically we train in Wing Chun, but specifically we train in Emin Boztepe's Wing Tzun, which is of Yip Man and Leung Ting descent.
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