Wing Chun Kung Fu

Demonstrations with Sifu Paul Smith (on Youtube):

Wing Chun is a practical and efficient martial art system. It uses simultaneous defence and attack and focuses on short range techniques and sensitivity over brute strength. As such, it is ideal for anyone interested in self defence, regardless of size or age.

Wing Chun is a high intensity, but low impact style, using low kicks and natural stances. Continuous movement and sensitivity training make it a perfect way to maintain or improve health and general wellbeing.

This is a simple art that is easy to learn, with extensive use of partner drills to build reflexes and speed of movement.

Wing Chun is recognised as one of the most practical and devastatingly effective, no-nonsense self-protection martial arts systems in the world.

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Origins

According to legend, Wing Chun was developed by the Abbess Ng Mui after she fled the Shaolin Temple when it was destroyed by invaders. She devised a new fighting style based on the Kung Fu she had learned at the Temple, but adapted it to be more efficient.

The style was later named after Ng Mui's first student, Yim Wing Chun, a girl who used these skills to defeat a local warlord (in one-on-one combat) who attempted to force her to marry him. She later taught the style to the man she married and it was he who named it after her. (See more at the Wikipedia article on Wing Chun)

From that time, Wing Chun was handed down from master to student, until Grand Master Yip Man began to teach the style to larger numbers of people in Hong Kong. Two of his pupils were his sons, Grandmasters Yip Ching and Yip Chun, and it is to this lineage that Sifu Paul Smith belongs to, through his instructor Grandmaster Samuel Kwok.

Other practitioners of Wing Chun include Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Stephen Chow.