The Wing Chun system was initially developed specifically for women and girls

Wing Chun has many legends surrounding its creation. There is a common story about a woman named Yim Wing Chun. It was in the Ming Empire during the Qing Dynasty that a Shaolin Buddhist temple was built. Monk Ng Mui was walking in the forest, thinking about how to improve her Kung-fu. As she walked, she heard a sound and looked towards the direction the sound was coming from. Looking towards the sound, she noticed a snake and a crane fighting. Her attention was drawn to the elegant and precise movements. Her attention was captivated by both the crane’s and snake’s slick movements and positions. The fight fascinated Ng Mui so much that she started analyzing the movements and combining them with her own Kung Fu. With her hands, she mimicked the snake’s movement and positioned herself like a crane.

Her new Kung Fu style took days and months to perfect. She taught her martial art to a woman who was being bullied by an older man as she worked on her new skills. The woman’s name was Yim Wing Chun. She was a beautiful girl whose looks attracted a man who would bully her into marriage. This man bullied Yim Wing Chun, and Ng Mui could not stand to see it. To prevent Yim Wing Chun from being bullied by that man again, she decided to teach her Wing Chun, her specialized martial art. After a while, Yim wing Chun had learned all she could from her. The man who bullied Yim wing Chun appeared to her one day as she walked by the woods. Yim Wing Chun showed no emotion when the man grabbed her arm, she wasn’t even worried. Despite the man’s attempts to pull her away, Yim Wing Chun became immovable, her roots deeply rooted in the ground. When Yim Wing Chun got free of the man’s grip, she grabbed his arm, yanked it to the ground, and punched the man while simultaneously forcing his head forward. As a result of Yim Wing Chun standing her ground, she was able to defend herself against a bully, who never wanted to see her again.

Wing Chun’s Purpose

The purpose of Wing Chun is to protect yourself and those you love. Wing Chun also excels at close-quarter combat. The focus is not to do big and flashy moves when you fight in this style; instead, your strikes will be precise and driven to the center of your opponents. With this mindset (the centerline), Wing Chun students can avoid all the struggling energy and position themselves in the most effective way so they can strike their opponent with a structured punch. Wing Chun can be beneficial for your personal growth in many ways. With Wing Chun, you can focus laser-like on your opponent and calm your mind. Wing Chun has many variations and purposes that can be applied to sports, work, and even our mindset. You wouldn’t be able to achieve the full potential of Wing Chun if you didn’t connect the internal part of it with the external movements. Wing Chun can only be outstanding when the internal and external movements are controlled.

What is the importance of self-defense?

As much love and joy as there is in this world, there will also be hatred and anger. Those with big egos will always be quick to fight and hurt others for their own personal gain. In a conflict, we have the option of fleeing or fighting. People have many fears about life, some are even scared to go outside because of the fear of being hurt or ridiculed by others. World-wide, bullying is a huge epidemic that must be stopped, and words alone won’t do it. There will be times when we must defend ourselves and/or loved ones. It is an amazing skill to be able to protect yourself. Kung fu not only protects you but also gives you a sense of confidence. Having a sense of confidence can positively influence the way you act on a daily basis. Your life can be profoundly impacted by martial arts in many ways. 

There are many people who think martial arts is just about fighting, which is extremely incorrect. More than just a powerful form of Kung Fu, Wing Chun teaches inner peace and powerful life lessons. Focus is one of the most important life lessons you will learn from Wing Chun. When sparring you will relax your mind, make your elbows heavy, and push your shoulders down (Mi jong) while taking a Kim yung ma stance. In this position, if done correctly, you will become immovable. When your focus wanes and you follow your opponent, you lose track of your goal and are led by him. On the path to achieving a goal, there will always be false stimuli intended to deter you. Wing Chun students are trained to see past fog and get to their goals using their laser-like forces.

Does Wing Chun involve sparring?

 It is absolutely true that Wing Chun involves sparring. Some Wing Chun schools, however, do not spar. In Wing Chun, sparring is a necessity! In fact, we believe that if your Wing Chun school doesn’t spar, and spars often, you should seriously consider leaving to find a school that spars.

Having said that, how you spar matters. Because Wing Chun is a self-defense art, sparring must be trained with self-defense in mind, just as a musician practices with performance in mind.

Schools often demonstrate sparring out of chi sao (sticky hands) and poon sao (rolling hands), but these drills are merely designed to foster sensitivity in students. Although stickiness will surely be applied in practice, very few people will roll their hands prior to a fight. Students of Wing Chun must learn how to spar apart from chi sao. They will rely on holding the opponent’s arms rather than learning how to dominate the opponent’s centerline if they don’t learn how to link to them.

The importance of sparring for Wing Chun students

Students of Wing Chun must spar because sparring helps them put all the concepts and exercises they have learned into practice. Drills and forms should be practiced in a dynamic, alive way. It involves dealing with punches, kicks, pushes, and pulls from an uncooperative opponent. In this way, the student learns distance and timing, how to integrate footwork, and how to deal with the stress of being punched. In Wing Chun, sparring is the closest thing to a real-life application. Real-life fighting is unpredictable, messy, and often favors the strongest and most aggressive fighters. Furthermore, you will likely be full of adrenaline, your thoughts will race, and your movements will be erratic.

Wing Chun emphasizes timing, precision, and relaxation. With a flurry of fists at your feet, how do you learn to apply these concepts? To put it another way, how does Wing Chun theory translate into practice? It’s simple. It’s sparring

Using Wing Chun for the wrong purposes

A formidable martial art, Wing Chun is designed to defeat an opponent without restrictions or rules. There are many small movements in Wing Chun that lead to explosive power. The purpose of Wing Chun is not to feed someone’s ego. In Wing Chun, people who can’t set aside their own ego won’t reach their full potential. Whenever a student can’t set aside his or her feelings or ego during a fight, the conflict will get out of hand, and the fight will become a battle of strength and strength, which is not what Wing Chun is about. Meditation is the basis of Wing Chun’s martial art. It is about making movements based on the stimuli presented by the opponent, not by your emotions.  Our Kung-Fu school welcomes new students who are seeking inner peace and martial arts.