Best products from r/WingChun
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1. Wing Chun Kung Fu: Traditional Chinese Kung Fu for Self-Defense and Health
- St Martin s Griffin
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3. Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's History and Traditions (Complete Martial Arts)
4. Secrets of the Pelvis for Martial Arts: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Wujifa, Taiji, Xingyi, Bagua and Everyday Life
6. The Tao of Wing Chun: The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art
- Skyhorse Publishing
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8. Everlast 2228 PowerCore Freestanding Heavy Bag,Black
- Improved design & strength and ease of assembly
- Tri-disc foam structure provides maximum energy dispersion
- PowerTransferRing collar offers superior impact and absorption and re-coil
- PowerCore steel plate technology improves the overall strength
- Compact base allows for increased accessibility
- Improved design & strength and ease of assembly
- Tri-disc foam structure provides maximum energy dispersion
- PowerTransferRing collar offers superior impact and absorption and re-coil
- PowerCore steel plate technology improves the overall strength. Height is adjustable from 54 to 65 inches
- Compact base allows for increased accessibility
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9. The Sword Polisher's Record: The Way of Kung-Fu (Tuttle Martial Arts)
- Plain-toe ankle boot featuring waxed leather finish and contrast stitching,Many customers buy Red Wing Heritage footwear 1/2 size smaller than their normal size
- Style No. 9016
- Topline piping
- Lug outsole
- Features black eyelets hardware and 48 inch black flat waxed lace
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10. Fight Like a Physicist: The Incredible Science Behind Martial Arts (Marial Science)
- Ymaa Pubns
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11. Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's History and Traditions (Complete Martial Arts)
12. Mastering Kung Fu (Mastering Martial Arts Series)
- Used Book in Good Condition
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13. Wing Chun Bil Jee: The Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers
- Used Book in Good Condition
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16. Wing Chun Warrior: The True Tales of Wing Chun Kung Fu Master Duncan Leung, Bruce Lee's Fighting Companion
- Blue/Yellow Stripe Nylon Slip-Thru Strap
- Round White Dial
- Full Arabic Numerals & 24-Hour Military Time
- Polished Silver-Tone 38mm Case
- Indiglo Light-Up Watch Dial
- Water resistant to 30m (100ft): in general, withstands splashes or brief immersion in water, but not suitable for swimming or bathing
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18. Canvas Wall Striking Bag 3 SECTION Kung Fu Makiwara Boxing Wall Mounted Sand Punch Boxing Bag with Zipper Protection
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Give Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's History and Traditions by Robert Chu, Rene Ritchie and Y. Mu a try. It is a pretty comprehensive history of wing chun, from what I've read of it. As the foreword by Mark V. Wiley perhaps a little hyperbolically says:
> Complete Wing Chun is perhaps the best book written on the various schools comprising a single martial art form. The authors have done an excellent job in their tireless research and presentation of material into this comprehensive treatise on one of the most controversial and misunderstood arts of this century. This book is destined to become the classic reference on the subject, and has set a standard by which other researchers and practitioners wishing to uncover their art should follow. I highly recommend this book to all Wing Chun stylists and martial arts researchers alike without hesitation. If ever you were to buy just one book on the art, this should be it." --Mark V. Wiley
This one isn't specific to Wing Chun but for be Wing Chun is best when it's practiced as an internal style - Secrets of the Pelvis - it improved my wing chun so much!
I see what you're saying…
Maybe my opinion is somewhat extremely colored by seeing the EWTO stuff…
Pure Leung Ting… OK.
But KRK is just clearly not Wing Chun anymore.
As for LT WT:
I'm using the Document "Wing Tsun Kuen" as a reference here.
The SNT, we can more or less agree on.
We put the main focus on the elbow here.
LT seems to be more concerned with "applications", we don't think that way about the form.
But Cham Kiu is where it starts to differ greatly.
We know that the motions, which are performed three times, tell us "hey, this is important!"
Cham Kiu turning, the pivot, is very important!
Both the Lan Sao turning, and the Bong-Jut turning.
For us the correct way is defined as such:
Please consider the following sources:
Observe how these three different lineage all coordinate the pivot the same way, while the LT way differs.
These three lineages are well separated, yet they are much closer to each other than WT's way is to any of them.
From a sort of "evolutionary" point of view we can deduce that LT's way is the "unusual" one.
What do you say to that?
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Did you mean something like the B.O.B. dummies?
I would say anything freestanding on a base you fill with water/sand would fill your needs, and dampen the sound, and beyond that you have choices on what you'd want to be hitting. And yes, anything that gives you targets you can focus on can help.
I think rookayy has it right, you don't want to start learning from online videos or whatnot, you will definetly pick up some bad habits, or maybe just different habits than the school you eventually train with. Every lineage has it's intricacies that get passed down from generation to generation that are slightly different depending on the sifu.
Start with the basics, learn the principles etc, but nothing beats hands on instruction!
Check out some books too. This, for instance
Good luck!
Yeah thanks :)
I've ordered this book to learn more about the history and concepts of "traditional" wing chun, and try to spot the difference between that way and the "modern" way I'm learning.
The Tao of Wing Chun is a great book about conceptual things. It's a light read and incredibly informative. The Sifu who wrote it is also usually available via email about inquires, and travels around to teach people if they are interested in running seminars.
https://www.amazon.ca/Tao-Wing-Chun-Principles-Explosive/dp/162914777X
Championship fighting is a great book, I read it after it was mentioned in another thread regarding which knuckles to punch with. The only other (martial arts) book I've really read is Samuel Kwok's Mastering Wing Chun, which was ok, but i'm not a massive fan of just learning moves from looking at pictures. It was useful for trying to remember the forms before I knew them properly though.
Not wing chun specific (more general kung fu) but my Sifu recommended i read "The Sword Polisher's Record" by Adam Hsu and indeed i would recommend it too.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Sword-Polishers-Record-Kung-fu/dp/0804831386/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405186946&sr=8-1&keywords=the+sword+polishers+record
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1583941290?pc_redir=1404977283&robot_redir=1 one of the best books I found
I'm not a WC practitioner, just find the topic interesting. But I recently read a book about the physics of martial arts that made an interesting point about gloves.
It said there are two ways to do strikes: by emphasizing momentum, or by emphasizing energy (i.e. physical energy, not woowoo "energy").
Momentum is mass velocity. A momentum strike has a lot of mass behind it but doesn't necessarily have to move super fast. The point of it is to transfer momentum to your opponent, moving their body. It's how you knock people out, by rotating their head. Gloves don't reduce the effect of momentum strikes.
Energy is mass the square of velocity. Since velocity is squared but mass isn't, an energy strike emphasizes high speed over getting a lot of weight behind the strike. The point of an energy strike is to do local tissue damage. Gloves dramatically reduce the effectiveness of energy strikes, by spreading out the area and time of impact.
My impression as an outsider is that WC strikes are more on the energy side of the spectrum; if that's true, then maybe the glove objection would have some validity. Boxing and muay thai are heavily momentum-based, which explains why competitors with gloves always end up using those types of strikes.
(Feel free to call me the worst neckbeard, here I am talking about geeky physics and I don't even practice WC.)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0195OPNJO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I liked this one but it breaks down all the different wing chun lineages
Most of them vary from lineage to lineage. My first teacher's book isn't bad, though it has some of the VTM's political agenda behind it.
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Kung-Fu-Martial-Arts/dp/0736045686
Here's the book I used to learn it:
Grandmaster William Cheung, Bil Jee: The Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers
(Wm. Cheung, like Bruce Lee, was a student of Yip Man, but claims to have been his only student to have learned the unmodified form of Wing Chun from him.)
*EDIT: See also: http://goo.gl/U57Zt for footage of Bill Cheung performing Bil Jee
EDIT 2: Not really sure why this got downvotes. OP wants to learn Bil Jee, and this is a credible source....
My sifu earned his Ph.D and wrote a book based off the "tactical cognition" of WC. Here's the book
https://www.amazon.com/Wing-Chun-Warrior-Fighting-Companion/dp/9881774225/ref=sr_1_1
http://www.amazon.com/Wing-Chun-Warrior-Fighting-Companion/dp/9881774225
Pick up this book!
http://www.amazon.com/Wing-Chun-Kung-Fu-Yimm-Lee/dp/0897500377/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348517031&sr=1-10&keywords=wing+chun
I have this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002SL6ITG/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_c_x_1_w
Double end bag!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0032VD4PM/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1496427204&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=double-end+bag
The book 'The Wing Chun Compendium' (vol 1) by Wayne Belonoha has the chops and many of the translations to English, though I don't know how complete it is.
http://amzn.com/1412028191
Very, very similar book, with lots of identical sections. I personally prefer Facing Violence to Meditations on Violence because it deals more thoroughly with legal issues, but either is great.
I found "On Combat" to be insightful for understanding the effect of combat on people.