The main thing that attracted me to it is its blocking techniques. wing chun is not about blocking, wing chun is about striking forward and being sensitive enough to get through any bridge and control your and your opponets energy. The ideal fight for a wing chun practitioner would be to strike forward and have his opponet block his punch, then the wing chun guy should be sensitive enough to deal with the bridge very quickly. There are very few blocks in wing chun. Anything below the waist is blocked by your legs. The tan sao is situational, ok for dealing with a bridge/ the bong sao is a last minute move, and your ribs are exposed when you do bong sao, so you want to hold bong sao for as little time as possible. the jut sao is another option to get through a bridge. fook sao is a lazy hand ok for riding your enemies energy I guess, any other blocks in the system are variations of the blocks I stated above. So I wouldn't say wing chun is a very strong blocking style, I have been told not to be a weapon chaser, kill the source. The principle of wing chun "blocking" is pretty simple, it's just developing the sensitivity to help you deal with the bridge once you make contact, that is the hard part. At my school, all of the exercises train balance, timing coordination, sensitivity, and relaxation. BTW I am yip man lineage, so this may not apply to pan nam or other lineages.
