Wing Chun/Meditation?

Hi guys.


So, I studied Zendo Kai a number of years ago, and shortly after obtaining my brown belt (with black tips) I stopped. I'm looking at getting back into martial arts.





However, I cannot remember a single damn thing I learned (bad I know). I was looking at Wing Chun, eventually pairing with Judo.





My question; does anyone here study Wing Chun? If so, what would be a good activity to pair with it? Tai Chi? Yoga?


Are there any good books or dvds I can buy to have a bit of extra knowledge on the subject?





Thanks.

Wing Chun/Meditation?
Wing Chun is a quite complete system. It includes both internal and external focus, the first form that you learn has a slow opening section which is a form or meditaion, although it is a little more borring than tai chi or other moving meditations as you are just standing in one place, the bonus is though that you are strengthening your Wing Chun stance and practicing Wing Chun techniques while doing it, hence getting better at Wing Chun while you practice your focus.





As for pairing it with Judo and the like this can be quite an advantage, however if you have a good teach they will be able to show you how Wing Chun executes throws, locks, takedowns and ground fighting as the system does include these things, in fact as a predominently close quarters system it relies heavily on standing grappling. There is not as heavy a focus on ground grappling as the system was designed for combat puposes and in anything other than a 1:1 situation being on the ground is not advantageous, however the skills that you practice for standing grappling are transferrable to the ground but it will require you to train them in this way, so don't think that just because in theory it works that you can instantly make it work with no practice, especially against BJJ and the like that practice all the time, but with a bit of experience you do ok, my sifu was given an honourary black belt in BJJ from a seminar that he attended as he tapped out all of their top students in attendance including the teach and he'd never done ground fighting before, but he is a freak of nature that has been training for 30 years at the time and it really is his life.





Also it can be benificial to have forgotten what you know of katate also when you take up Wing Chun as the two styles have a very different approach, I have some experience trying to teach people that come from Karate, we have a couple of 2nd and 3rd dans at our school and they find it hard to adapt to some things, especially the punch and some of the softer techniques.





Anyway, regardless if you get a good grounding in Wing Chun and then research other styles and apply things that marry up well with it you will be quite a competent fighter.
Reply:wing chun is for traditional if thats what you want but you will get ya *** kicked outside the classroom