Techniques That A Wing Chun Practitioner Should Learn In His Quest For Mastery Of The Art.
Martial arts have been practiced in one form or another for thousands of years and writings about Wing Chun have been found as far back as the period of Warring States and make reference to fighting techniques, with and without arms. They talk about whole armies who use these skills with deadly power, accuracy and mastery. First, I pose the question, can a martial art ever really be mastered or are we forever learning and improving? With that question in mind, I believe different people will give you different ideas about techniques for Wing Chun mastery.
Beginning from the basics and moving through the techniques and mastering each one to the best of your ability is the ideal but without certain techniques, some others will be rendered useless.
From the very beginning of your training, you will learn a technique that will be the basis for your Wing Chun mastery and that is Stance. Without mastering stance, all kicking practice will be wasted. In Wing Chun, the body in as one unit at the waist and if this is not achieved, balance and full power will be lost during a...