Wing chun training is probably the best know of the kung fu styles. Mainly due to the exploits of Bruce Lee.
Legend has it that it took all the elements of the other kung fu systems and took all the best bits and left out the inefficient moves. The idea that wing chun was to be an attacking fighting system. With at its essence use of economy of movement. Traditionally kung fu systems where devised from animal forms were the movements mimicked by animals where the Shaolin monks would study them while they attacked their prey. Given the effectiveness of these attacks they picked out specific moves that where not applicable and left with a strictly attacking system.
They added the wing chun training dummy to assist in the development and training of the practitioner. Depending on which school you talk to there are 108 moves in the wing chun wooden dummy and it is integral to the training of its fighters. The three main forms of Wing Chun are the Sil Lim tao form , chum kill and bill jee. You can also break them uop depending on the development of the fighter with Sil lim tao the introductory form which goes over the basics. Then chum kill the intermediate form and Bill Jee being the most advanced form in the system. The positives of the system is than it builds up from the ground up as you learn. This is also true for the wooden dummy. You learn the stages as you progress and as they relate to the forms and your development. One of the keys to the success of wing chun is that it is easy to learn and you can go through the whole system in a relatively short time. That is also one of its weaknesses. Once they complete their training many people think that’s it they have mastered it and are finished with the system. Truth is it is only the beginning. Once you have completed the system then you spend time refining and perfecting what you have learned.
