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The 5-Minute Warm-Up That Transforms Your Wing Chun Training
Jumping straight into chi sau without warming up? That’s like trying to start a cold car and flooring the accelerator. Your body—and your Wing Chun—deserves better. Why Cold Muscles Kill Your Performance Picture this: You walk into class, bow in, and immediately start practising your forms. Within minutes, something feels off. Your movements are stiff.…
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Why Your Wing Chun is Only as Good as Your Flexibility
Ever felt your body fighting against you during forms practice? That shoulder tension ruining your perfect Tan Sau? You’re not alone. Here’s the truth: flexibility isn’t optional for serious Wing Chun practitioners—it’s the foundation that makes everything else possible. The Hidden Connection Between Flexibility and Wing Chun Power Most martial artists think of stretching as…
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A Useful Relaxation technique
The following was initially published by Health Promotion England in their “The Health Guide”: Learn to recognise when your muscles are tensed – this is a sign of stress. This simple breathing exercise may help you to combat stressful moments in your life: Calm, controlled breathing helps to release muscular tension and relieve stress. Adopt…
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Investigating muscle types
Muscle types There are three general categories of muscle within the body: Cardiac – (involuntary) forms the walls of the heart and pumps blood around the circulatory system Smooth (involuntary) – found in the walls of hollow structures e.g. blood vessels Skeletal (voluntary) – attached to bone This article is concerned with muscle that we…
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Wing Chun Poem – written by Master Ip Chun
In July 1999 Master Ip Chun visited the UK to give a series of seminars for his most senior Western student Sifu Shaun Rawcliffe. As part of the Midlands Wing Chun Kuen the Cheltenham branch was once again privileged to be able to host one of these seminars. In actual fact, this was the 5th…
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The Mai Jiang principle
Mai Jiang is best explained by using the first section of Siu Nim Tao (little idea form). The first section of Wing Chun’s form, Siu Nim Tao, contains movements that essentially require the pressing forward of Fuk Sao (controlling/ bridging hand). These three movements as a whole are termed Saam Pai Fut (three/bow/Buddha), meaning “praying…
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Lai See (Red Packet)
With Chinese New Year approaching on the 19th February 2015, you may see small red packets being passed from one person to another, or see them hanging over shop doors in Chinese quarters of major cities, and wonder what they are. The red packets are called Lai See and are traditionally passed from elder to junior and contain a…
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Proprioception – The Sixth Sense
Most people are familiar with the 5 senses: Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste and Touch and their importance to us daily. It is possible to live without one or two of these but it does make life a little more difficult. During the middle of the last Century Neurophysiologists added a ‘Sixth Sense’ to the list…
