Wing Chun

Chèunhg Kìuh Faat Gihng 長橋發勁and Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng 短橋發勁 – Part 4 The advantage of Chèunhg Kìuh Faat Gihng 長橋發勁 is not that the most powerful. Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng 短橋發勁 is more powerful. However, in a fight, whoever can hit their opponent first has the most change of winning the fight. So we …

Chèunhg Kìuh Faat Gihng 長橋發勁and Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng 短橋發勁 – Part 3 Master Tse’s hits first The question is, which one is more powerful, Chèunhg Kìuh Faat Gihng 長橋發勁 or Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng 短橋發勁? The answer is Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng. Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng can injure people very badly. This is because …

Chèunhg Kìuh Faat Gihng 長橋發勁 and Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng 短橋發勁 – Part 2 In Wing Chun we have both Chèunhg Kìuh Faat Gihng 長橋發勁 and Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng 短橋發勁. For Wing Chun, in particular, we must have both opposite ways. Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng is normal and it is powerful, but it takes …

Chèunhg Kìuh Faat Gihng 長橋發勁 and Dyún Kìuh Faat Gihng 短橋發勁 Wing Chun has a special way of doing Faat Ging 發勁. It is commonly known as the One Inch Punch,  Chyun Gihng 寸勁. This is what Bruce Lee called it when he introduced his Wing Chun power to the West. It was a spectacular …

Wing Chun Family Tree – Part 21 Master Tse and his Sīfú, Grandmaster Ip Chun 葉準師父 From 1965 to 1972, between the ages of 72 to 79, Ip Man 葉問 closed the Tao Kok Tsui 大角咀 school and most of the time he stayed at home in Tung Choi Street 通菜街, although still taught some …

Wing Chun Family Tree – Part 20 Ip Man 葉問 & Ip Chun 葉準 From 1957 to 1962, when Ip Man 葉問 was aged 64 to 69 years old, he moved to Lei Cheng Uk Estate, Sham Shiu Po 深水埗李鄭屋邨. This is where he lived and also taught Wing Chun from his home. The students …

Wing Chun Family Tree – Part 19 Grandmaster Ip Man 葉問 with Leung Sheung 梁相 (right) and Lee Yan Wing 李恩榮 (left) Ip Man 葉問 came to Hong Kong in 1949. He travelled from Foshan to Hong Kong via Macau 澳門, where he stayed for a few weeks. This was the first and only time …

Wing Chun Family Tree Part – 18 Grandmaster Ip Man 葉問 and his two sons, Ip Chun 葉準 and Ip Ching 葉正 Ip Man 葉問 could never have imagined that when he started teaching Wing Chun Kung Fu that it would become his life’s work and that it would bring him fame. He even had …

Wing Chun Family Tree – Part 17 A bronze casting of Grandmaster Ip Man 葉問 teaching In 1945 the Japanese surrendered and the war was over. Ip Man 葉問 found a job as a plain clothed policeman and so he stopped teaching. His finances slowly got better and so his whole family started to have …

Wing Chun Family Tree – Part 16 Grandmaster Ip Man 葉問 Jāu Chaan Yiuh 周燦耀 asked his brother to study with Ip Man 葉問. He said, “Gwōng Yiuh 光耀, Uncle Man’s Kung Fu is very good. If we can learn from him it would be good!” Jāu Gwōng Yiuh 周光耀 agreed. Chaan Yiuh knew that Ip Man liked his …