Anybody have experience with wing chun? Like what body types it works for, how much training does it take to make the short punches effective, practical stuff.

I took Jeet Kune Do privately which is just a off shoot of Wing Chun I think. I liked it way better that boxing style arts because I'm a bigger guy & you stay in the center & lead with your strong arm & jam with your foot. worked well for me but that's about all I know about it.

Everybody wing Chun tonite

Me and White Baron have started meeting up with a local group. Apparently it takes years to develop the muscle memory required to do it well, but it was designed by a woman so I'm assuming that anyone can do it.

It's very different from anything I've ever done, so I can see why it would take such a long time to get good at it.

Jeet kun do? That's more of a philosphy than a martial art. It was the predacessor (and I still say superior) to "MMA".

As for wing chun? I dunno anything about it.

Bridges, I'm going to take that "woman" comment as a compliment
and yah,
Wing Chun is a "soft" style


...less punching, more avoiding

It doesn't take very long to get muscle memory.
Six weeks of daily repetition will lay in what you need
and then repeat the practice every other day or so.

Dogman, short punches ALWAYS work if you are in range.
If you are not, run
and one punch is rarely, if ever enough

Somehow I get the feeling youre not talking about the friday evening chineese buffet at the Navigator Inn

Well I guess this is as good a place as any to put my first post. I know it's an slightly older thread but it's something I know a bit about. Wing chun is a martial arts style that was actually built for the female body. It focuses around conservation of motion, linear movement, and speed rather than strength to generate power. It's a very efficient martial art and only takes a few months or maybe a year to get the basics down ... but to be combat effective I'd recommend at least 3-4 years of training. All Chinese soft style martial arts, especially the arts that rely on internal principals, have a tendency to be real easy to pick up the basics, but take much longer than their Korean/Japanese/American hard style counterparts to become combat functional in. Wing chun is a highly effective martial art, but I wouldn't recommend using it as a primary combat style unless you have and are willing to continue an extensive and long term training regime. It's more of a "long term relationship" type of martial art. If you take it out for a spin on the first date you're liable to get yourself, or someone else hurt.

Just as a side note: lots of punching in wing chun. LOTS and LOTS of punching. Wing chun is the style that originated the "chain punch" (high speed, low impact successive punches) that is so common in other martial arts. Wing chun has a principal concept of continuously attacking. As a matter of fact in the earliest documents of the style they don't even have a equivilent technique for taking a step back to distance yourself from your opponent. Every single movement in the style moves INTO the attacker.

Welcome Psyphon.

thanks

I'd like to learn wing chun. It was one of the core styles bruce lee integrated into his jeet kun do style. I may have mentioned it before. I'm too lazy to look back.

It was actually Bruce Lee's original style of martial art. He was taught by master Ip Man. they actually have a movie named "Ip Man" where his teacher is played by Donnie Yen. He uses wing chun, and Only wing chun throughout the coarse of the movie so if you'd like to see what it really looks like I'd recommend checking the movie out.

I will look into that film. Thanks.

Donnie Yen is a fucking badass, for the record.

One more reference of wing chun can be found in Jet Li's movie "The One" the bad Jet Li using the linear style is actually primarily using wing chun, while the good Jet Li using the circular style is primarily using a style called bagua zhang (also used by Ang in the cartoon version of the "Avatar").

You guys have anything on ninjutsu? Seems like a highly efficient martial art aimed at lethality and evasiveness. Does anyone here practice ninjutsu?

This is a wing chun thread, but I'll talk about ninjitsu with you in the other martial arts thread you're posting in if you'd like.

i am practicing Wing Chun, its really good! if you can, try to practice the Leung Ting branch of Wing Chun!

Nay!