How much do you know about Wing Chun Kung fu ? is it efficient either in combat or health ?

i heard that it was created by a woman..... and how can a martial art help you know who you are or what you are ?

How much do you know about Wing Chun Kung fu ? is it efficient either in combat or health ?
Yes.... the legend/history of Wing Chun does attribute its beginnings to a woman in some lineages. Factually/historically I do not think this has been confirmed though.





Doesn't really matter though. Wing Chun is an effective method of martial art that does lends itself well to women and people of smaller stature. It offers both close-quarters fighting techniques and some training benefits for health.





The last part of your question is not restricted to Wing Chun. However.... a martial art can help you learn about yourself. How? It offers a medium that offers feedback and allows you to view yourself and how you deal with situations. Example: Say you're sparring with someone. (Or even in a fight.) How do you feel during the encounter? Fearful? Angry? Passive? How do your respond to his/her attacks? Aggressively or passively? Do you shy away from their aggression or do you challenge it head-on? When you have an opportunity to take them down, are you compassionate or do you feel justified in annihilating them?





During class or a training session, you're training your body, your reflexes, and even your spirit. But after class you have an opportunity to review what happened in class and how you behaved. Generally, how you respond in a stressful situation like sparring can reveal a great deal about you as a person and what you're about.
Reply:wing chun is very effective for fighting


wing chun carries with it exercises that benefit health


(qi-gong)





a martial art cannot help you to know who you are or what you are


you are awareness





you discover that through love or through meditation





a martial art is a way to fight
Reply:I know nothing about it but found a wiki for it.





A marrtial art can tell you if your in shape or not.
Reply:Effective fighting system? LOL!





Wing Chun kung-fu, like most of the stylized kung-fu systems out there, get caught up in the who's instead of the why's and how's. The fixed positions and the inability to expand out of their systems fighting position leaves it vunerable to take downs, angled attacks, multiple person situations, and takes too long to implement the ideas to practical use.
Reply:It's not what I practice, But I know enough to know it's a very good art. It's where Bruce Lee started. It is very good for self defense.
Reply:Wing Chun Kung Fu IS a very effective discipline to study, just as ANY Martial Arts discipline will have it's effectiveness as well as it's weakness, but you have to train, and train well enough for it to really work and be proficient in it.





if you train sloppy, then you'll be a sloppy Martial Artist; because you fight as well as you train, but if you train hard and train well enough to perfect your techniques; you'll become proficient enough to defend yourself.





No Martial Art can tell you WHO or WHAT you are, but it can help you to be a better person and point you in a better direction to becoming by teaching discipline and respect.





there are many conflicting details about Wing Chun's origins, but I'm not gonna dispute their levitity. Many say that it was created by Ng Mui who was an Abbess of the Fujian Shaolin Monastery and one of the five elders who escaped the destruction of the monestary by the Qing army (often referred to as the Manchu Dynasty). she was also said to have been inspired by witnessing a fight between a snake and a crane (or possibly another animal).





she was said to have bought bean curd at a Tofu shop owned by a man named Yim Yee, who had a daughter named Wing Chun who was being forced into marriage by a local warlord, Ng Mui was said to have taught Yim Yee's daughter to defend herself from this warlord and wound up fending him off for good and married a man she loved named Leung Bok-Chao which she taught, and in turn they passed on their knowledge to others





but that is the ORAL history through the Yip Man branch of the discipline, and nothing written down.





the Yiu Kai branch tells of Yim Sei, a disciple at the Fujian Shaolin Temple who avoided persecution by fleeing with his daughter (named Wing Chun) to Guangxi (which was part of the Jin Dynasty). Wing-Chun learned the Fujian Shaolin arts from her father and later married Leung Bok-Chao, a Shaolin disciple just like Wing-Chun's father, and taught her fighting style to her husband. The young couple began teaching Wing Chun's fighting style to others after moving to Guangdong Province in 1815, settling in the city of Zhaoqing. She was also said to have been inspired by a fight between a snake and a crane.





Other origins for Wing Chun have suggested typically connections to the Triads, revolutionary groups (often anti-Qing), or the Hakka people of southern China. Almost all extant lineages of Wing Chun, with the exception of the Pao Fa Lien branch, claim descending from the members of the mid-19th century cohort of the Red Boat Opera Company.





So theres nothing that is actually concrete evidence of Wing Chun's Martial Arts history.