Wing Chun is a concept-based Chinese self-defense and martial arts style utilizing striking and grappling while specializing in close-range combat.
Wing Chun promotes the thought that a smaller, weaker person will learn to beat an even bigger, stronger person with better body structure. An accurate Wing Chun stance is sort of a piece of bamboo, firm however versatile, rooted yet yielding. This structure is employed to either deflect an attacker's force or send it into them.
Balance is an important part of structure because a well-balanced body recovers efficiently from changes in angles and stalled attacks while structure is maintained. Wing Chun trains the notice of one's own body movement derived from muscular, tendon, and articular sources. Wing Chun's activities like Chum Kiu or the Wooden Dummy form greatly improve balance and while moving. Wing Chun favors a high, slender stance with the elbows close to the body. A Wing Chun practitioner's arms are positioned across the vitals of the body's center line. Shifting or turning is employed to negotiate control of the center deflecting while flowing to attacking opportunities. All attacks and counter-attacks are initiated from this firm, stable base. Wing Chun seldom compromises structure in order to get additional power into its attacks. As a result, it's defense is solidified by its structure. This allows a Wing Chun practitioner to think less about defense and more along the lines of possible openings to be exploited on an attacker.
Structure is viewed as necessary, not just for reasons of defense, however conjointly for attack. Once the practitioner is effectively rooted, or aligned they can be braced against the ground, the force of their hit is believed to be much more devastating.
