Wing Chun is a southern-Chinese close-range martial arts style which focuses on rapid striking and low kicks. The emphasis of Wing Chun training is the development of sensitivity and reflex from contact with an opponent and building awareness of your own innate biomechanics to deliver and manage force.
Wing Chun is one of the later 'kung fu' or 'wushu' styles said to have originated sometime in the 18th Century.
Wing Chun is in some sense a "soft" school of martial arts. However, if one equates soft as weak or without strength, then they are quite wrong. Chi Sao in Wing Chun is to maintain one's flexibility and softness, all the while keeping in the strength to fight back, much like the flexible nature of bamboo
From an interview with Grandmaster Ip Man 1972
Following the cultural revolution in China it found home in Hong Kong where it was most notably developed by the late Grandmaster Ip Man who was made world famous through one of his students, the film star Bruce Lee.
More recently there have also been several biopic films made about Ip Man himself where he is portrayed by the actor Donnie Yen amongst others.
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Wing Chun is a southern-Chinese close-range martial arts style which focuses on rapid striking and low kicks. The emphasis of Wing Chun training is the development of sensitivity and reflex from contact with an opponent and building awareness of your own innate biomechanics to deliver and manage force.
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