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Wing Chun Kung Fu

THE HISTORY OF WING CHUN KUNG FU

Inspiration behind the Wing Chun system Wing Chun is in many ways unique. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it's the only SHAOLIN KUNG FU system inherited from a woman. The system relies more on technique than strength. (Not that we don't exercise or train our bodies, but rather it is the method of performing the system).
The power of Wing Chun is the uncoiling of a spring that is freed, but performed without tension.

The technique and philosophy of Wing Chun has 400 year old roots from the monastery of SIU-LUM, during the CHING Dynasty, when the monastery had the misfortune to be burned by the Manchurians and with it four of the five monks preparing the art of Wing Chun.
The four monks were: CHI-SIN, PAK-MEI, MUI-HIN, FUNG-TO-TAK.
Apart from these teachers, there was also the nun NG MUI who was saved and who went to the White Crane Temple in the Tai Leong Mountain.
One day, while observing a crane fighting a snake, Ng Mui was inspired to create a new fighting style. This fighting technique is none other than Wing Chun. Wing Chun was the name of a beautiful, poor and orphaned girl, adopted by NG MUI and taught the system. Wing Chun means "beautiful spring" or "hope for the future".

The girl developed the wonderful CHI-SAO that is the soul of the system, and taught the entire system to her husband who developed it further and added the 12 staff techniques. He in turn transmitted it to his relatives, until it arrived at one of the greatest teachers of our century GRAND MASTER YIP MAN, who was truly the personification of a lost civilization. He in turn developed it further and added the 8 BUTTERFLY SWORD techniques and perfected the 116 "Wooden Dummy" movements, whose purpose is the accuracy of techniques, the hardening of our limbs and accurate steps.

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