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Learning Wing Chun Vol 1

Learning Wing Chun Outside the Box Vol 1 : Thinking Creatively About Wing Chun Force is a free eBook that is meant to make us think about the way we approach our practice of Wing Chun; in this case the generation of force.

It is not meant to be an instructional eBook. Instead, it is meant to function as a tool to provoke your thinking, to get you thinking outside the box of your own practice.…

Its a common refrain – traditional techniques are so deadly that they cannot be tested for real.

At which point the sports practitioner will laugh and say that if its so deadly that it cannot be tested how do you know if it will really work?

Both sides have a valid argument.

So what happens when a traditional, so-called deadly technique is used in a challenge match?

See for yourself……… I would…

I have reorganized the categories (or community as known in Google+) in the Ip Man Wing Chun Kung Fu eLearning Google+ page.

The categories now mirror the sections in 2 Dots : Six Learning Steps for Mastering Wing Chun’s Kicking Model for easier searching of information.

I have also labelled the each post with a number so that readers can see which posts come first in the sequence. This is…

Biu Jee Duct Tape Escape?

When I saw this video in this article this popped into my mind “Biu Jee. Child Prays to Buddha.”

The similarity between the Child Prays to Buddha technique to this technique of breaking free of duct tape binding your wrists in uncanny.

The downside of making this information public is that now criminals know better than to use duct…

2 Dots – Static vs Dynamic Part 3

Did you read The Ip Man Koans as I suggested in my previous post?

In my previous post I had mentioned three possible reasons why Wing Chun practitioners in general have a problem using kicks in Chi Sau.

If you are faced with the same or similar problems how would you resolve them?

Or you are not interested to solve them at all as you are not interested in using kicks in Wing Chun? At this point I…

2 Dots – Static vs Dynamic Part 2

I am sure many practitioners will find that its difficult to kick during Chi Sau. I am think of the following reasons :-

i) The constant forward pressure is already making it difficult for you to keep your balance on two legs. If so, then it will be much more tricky to get a leg off the ground to kick without being pushed off balance while you are standing on one leg.

ii) The close range makes it…