9 Shapes Southern Chinese Boxing
What is Wing Chun?
Wing Chun is a Southern Chinese close range combat system. The name itself symbolizes a positive message. Wing Chun is known to be simple, direct and effective.
What is the small idea?
The foundational level of Wing Chun is Siu Nim Tau, the small idea. Which is about mastering a limited amount of techniques, that you though the understating and internalizing of the underlying principles, can use in many different situations. The training are always based on simplicity and practicality.
What's your style?
Our training diverge from most other branches of Wing Chun, because of the rare Wing Chun strategy of Pin San. We are placing a much higher emphasis on motion, movement, stepping, shifting, angulation and power transference.
Is Wing Chun good for self defense?
Most certainly, in the hands of the right instructor Wing Chun is the ultimate self defense system in a modern urban environment, because of its unique simplicity.
In our modern society, people live busy lives, with their attention divided between many different doings. That makes the Wing Chun system with a very small, practical curriculum, the perfect martial art to learn. The lesser time you can allocate for training a week, the smaller the curriculum has to be for you to be successful at it.
Are Wing Chun based on speed and strength?
Wing Chun are not based on strength, speed or flexibility, which are qualities that will diminish with age. But it is based on correct position, timing and the merging of human anatomy with geometrical patterns. This makes the art suitable for people of all ages. Beginners are welcome, and you are never too old to begin your journey.
"Comfort is the worst addiction"
- Marcus Aurelius