2009-04-17T19:19:00.000-07:00

Wing Chun is a very unique martial art known for attention to and control of the centerline, trapping, vertical chain punching, and sticking hands (chi sao). There is a great deal of contraversy regarding different styles of wing chun and the trapping techniques, forms, and training methods used in the majority of wing chun styles. My personal opinion is that much of the controversy regarding wing chun is based on a lack of understanding, as are most controversies. All that aside, there are a number of techniques, training methods, and concepts in wing chun that are valuable for self-defense.

Although simple trapping is not quite as effective in a competition with both participants wearing gloves, it works fairly well in a no gloves environment. Complex trapping, or multiple traps before striking, may work against a completely unskilled and uncoordinated attacker, but not against an athletic person or a good fighter. For self-defense or mixed martial arts it would be wise to stick to simple trapping. Trapping is best used to open up a path to a target, to prevent an opponent from blocking a strike thrown to an already open target, to prevent the opponent from using a limb to attack you, or any combination of the three.

The trapping combinations are all possible to pull off in hard sparring in the right situations, but are more for developing the ability to use the simple traps at the right time, and get used to the idea of trapping. The solo drill is useful for practicing the basic techniques of wing chun when you don't have a partner.

2009-04-08T11:37:00.000-07:00

I would like to thanks the Editor and staff at Asian avenue magazine for their interest in Wing Chun, and what we offer at the Kusa facility. Most recently AAM has published an article in collaboration with myself and others about women in Wing Chun. The article touched on a bit of history, and women who have played a role in developing the system to those who study it to date, I have found the article to be exceptional. Although I would like to clarify that I had no part in the editing process of this article nor the pictures chosen to depict the story. It has been brought to my attention a few informational mistakes have been made, i.e the picture on the bottom left side of the page, the picture shows William Cheung, although a great person and well respected individual in the art of Wing Chun I would like to clarify that Mr. Cheung is not my Sifu/teacher. I have never trained, studied, worked with nor been affiliated with him and his schools. As you read on in the article, our Lineage if of the Duncan Leung lineage always has been, always will be. The other is a typo, stating I also have studied with the late Grand master Yip Man. I find this amusing but at the same time disturbing. I would have loved to studied with Grand Master Yip Man but as fortune has it I was born several years to late.

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