Wing chun the superior martial art
By: Mehran Movallali
If we take a look at the Kung Fu history, we'll see that before appearance wing chun Kung Fu,
shaolin martial arts have many complicated techniques and forms that most of them were demonstrating
and useless in a real fight. Besides, a practitioner should train to be the master in every shaolin
Kung Fu school for at least 10 years. Therefore, five senior shaolin monks decided to make a new art
with combining their martial arts and making many essential adaptations that it would not have any
demonstrating techniques and a disciple could use his best with a minimum power. Also all techniques
of the new art would be Practical in real fights and mastery on it, would take three or four years.
So, they designed in the new art "straight strikes" mostly, instead of circular, since a straight strike
is thrown much faster a circular one. Besides instead of traditional stances that feet should be very wide
and knees be very bend that caused little mobility in a fight, little wide stances with little knees bend
were substituted in the new art. And all techniques were designed in this new art, had practical applications
in a real fight and beaten with maximum speed generally.
But before the five monks could teach the new art,
shaolin temple was fired by "The Manchus" for they were afraid of the shaolin monk's, great martial abilities.
From those five monks, a nun named "Ng Mui" was survived. This event has happened about 300 years ago. Later on ,
"Ng Mui" improved the new Kung Fu art and teached it to a woman by the name of "Yim wing chun" that the new art
took its name from that woman.
Wing chun was moved to a person named "Yip Man" with much complete about 100 years ago. Yip Man was from a rich
family and has a lot talent to learn martial arts and could train under two main wing chun masters of that time.
Yip Man inherited wing chun after his masters death and could get title of "Grandmaster" with great dedications
and training somehow he defeated many martial arts masters in his time.
Wing chun may be the most economy and
effective among different Kung Fu schools. This martial art emphasises on straight strikes and essential defensive
techniques a lot and wing chun techniques have originally both hard and soft martial sides, somehow a wing chun student
often uses his mind instead of physical power, thus he applies opponet's power against him.
As said before, there's
no demonstrating techniques in this art and all techniques are practical in real fights. Because of these super martial
specifications, thousands of people practice wing chun nowadays nearly in all over the world and be teached to the police
and military personnel of the most Europe and other countries.
Two main wing chun are being teached in the world at present:
1)traditional wing chun (WC).
2)Wing Tsun (WT).
WC Grandmasters are now: Sons of the late grandmaster Yip Man: "Yip Ching" and "Yip Chun" and Yip Man's the most senior
student: "William Cheung".
Grandmaster Leung Ting is the founder and head of the WT style who he was Yip Man's one of
the talented students in his the last life years. There are two main differences between these styles:
1)Ranking:WC style ranking includes 3 stages: Elementrary, middle and advanced. But WT ranking includes: 12 student
levels and 12 master levels.
2)Techniques:WT style is the modern form of traditional wing chun that makes a student can face all martial artists
of different arts. A Wing Tsun practitioner is able to fight in all abnormal situations: Lie, at a car, at a phone-box and etc.
Briefly WT techniques are being designed to response to a Wing Tsun student's new martial requirements. Whereas, WC style is bound
to traditional methods and techniques and applies soft strategies less than WT too.
Grandmaster Leung Ting is demonstrating a Wing Chun technique. |