{"id":10958,"date":"2019-11-21T20:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/wing-chun-kuen-kuit-chun-quan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T20:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:20:43","slug":"wing-chun-kuen-kuit-chun-quan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wing-chun-kuen-kuit-chun-quan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wing Chun Kuen Kuit \u8a60\u6625\u62f3"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some Wing Chun schools use wing chun kuen kuit (\u8a60\u6625\u62f3\u8a23 lit. Wing Chun Fist Formula (mnemonic)) in teaching the art. These are short, often sing-song, sayings or rhymes that encapsulate principles, strategies or combat responses. Their meanings are often derived from local slang. Some sayings may appear simple but gain greater lucidity and meaning during training. <\/p>\n

Principles<\/strong>
Tenets of Wing Chun include practicality, efficiency and eco<\/em>nomy of movement. Practitio<\/em>ners are sometimes encouraged to sense the energy behind their movements. The core philosophy becomes a useful guide to practitio<\/em>ners when modifying or refining the art. <\/p>\n

Practicality
<\/strong>Wing Chun techniques emphasise practicality and effectiveness. Most strikes have the intention to injure the target. Wing Chun co<\/em>ncept is ba<\/em>sed upon the fact that the closest distance between two points is a straight line. Its primary targets all lie on the centerline of one’s opponent. The Centerline must always be pointing at one’s opponent. <\/p>\n

Efficiency
<\/strong>Wing Chun believes in using the least amount of required force in any fighting situation. It believes properly, correct timed position and movement can and should be used to defeat their opponent. This is achieved through balance, body structure and relaxation. The Chinese saying "4 taels to move 1000 catties" (referring to an old Chinese measurement system) is appropriate here in describing how a small amount of force, correctly applied, can deflect powerful attack. <\/p>\n

Wing Chun uses deflection and counter-attack in the same motion or will intercept the oppo<\/em>nent to nulify an attack, rather than blocking then attacking in two separate motions. Further on interception the punch can act as a block as a co<\/em>nsequence of the structure and the position of the arm travelling along its triangular "power-line" pathway to the opponent’s "Core". This means that the opponent’s attack is automatically deflected by the arm-structure of the Wing Chun practitio<\/em>ner as the counter-punch is delivered. <\/p>\n

The "structure" permits this deflection to occur is co<\/em>ntrolled through the correct focus of energy from the "core" to the "elbow". If the structure is not in place, the counter-attack\/interception is likely to breakdown losing the "forwarding" power which may result in the deflection failing and allowing the attacking punch to make its target. <\/p>\n

In addition to efficiency being understood as the "shortest distance to the opponent’s core" (which relates specifically to the speed of attack\/counter-attack), it is also im<\/em>portant to understand the im<\/em>portance of energy efficiency within Wing Chun. A person using Wing Chun is said to be able to defeat a stro<\/em>nger person because they are able to use their structure effectively. Given this, it is essential in ensuring that the Wing Chun practitio<\/em>ner has a full understanding of structure which enables them to use the correct use of energy required – any deviation from their "structure" resulting in using muscles in the shoulders will cause injury to the practitio<\/em>ner and also result in fatigue very quickly. This deviation removes the Wing Chun practitio<\/em>ners advantage since their "structure" will no lo<\/em>nger support the defence\/attack and viceaversa. So the co<\/em>nclusion of the fight will be determined by the oppo<\/em>nent with the stro<\/em>nger arms, shoulders and chin! <\/span><\/div>\n