July 2014

If Bruce Lee was practicing another wushu style, no one would ever know anything about Wing Chun! Due to his popularity this school of nanquan (southern fist) was lucky enough to become the most known school of Chinese wushu of our time. The tremendous impact of Bruce Lee  highlighted his teacher Yip Man, and, of course,  the legendary style which was the foundation of  the martial skills of the late “Little Dragon”. After the death of Bruce thousands of schools of  Wing Chun were opened in Asia, Europe and in the USA, mostly affiliated to Hong Kong masters, such as Leung Ting, William Cheung and others. During more than 40 years this style of wushu evolved in the shade of Bruce Leeʼs master Yip Man (Ye Wen in putonghua), who was  considered to be the spiritual heir and the last holder of a genuine Wing Chun tradition. In this way, the Wing Chun we see now is generally considered to be a form of “modern” wushu style, compact (only 3 basic forms) and easy to learn (because it does not have those difficult to master basic drills and low stances common to other wushu schools). Furthermore, because of those “unique” […]