Karate Vs Wing chun

[elbows_and_knees]

I'd like to add that Wing Chi was invented for war, against the monks. You know when it comes to war, people train to kill. This is why the attacks are more harsh.........they aim for throat, eyes, knee caps, nuts, and most importantly the heart.

Their "Kata" is not fancy at all. No high jumps or high kicks. Everything is solidly rooted onto the ground.

um.... wing chun was created so that a woman could defeat a man that was harassing her. her father was a monk and created the system from his knowledge of shaolin arts. Also, the strikes you mentioned aren't necessarily more harsh BUT they are harder to pull off because the target areas are smaller, making them much harder to use against a resisting opponent.

[ovine king]

the father of the woman of the legend in which she was being harassed wasn't a shaolin monk.

The most common story; after the burning of the temple, the elder nun escaped and along her journey she came across the girl being harassed. She taught the girl her own mix of boxing skills based on her small frame and extensive knowledge of trditional shaolin arts. The thing she taught was simple, didn't require brute strength and didn't take take long to learn.

[elbows_and_knees]

dude, there are like 234498234 different stories. In the one I am talking about, her father was a monk. Here's something I just found which states the same:

The girl Yim Wing Tsun was born in Kwantung province and lived, since the death of her mother, alone with her father, Yim Lee, a student of the Shaolin monastery.

http://www.wingtsun.com.au/site/AboutWT/History/wingtsunaustrali.html

However, this story states that she was taught by ng mui, which is most common.

[Adonis]

You got all the fun stories some even say the a women was watching a Crane kind of like the same idea a s the Hakutsuru stuff beikng created.

Its all legend and open to interpretation

[ovine king]

wht ever the legend, it's all false.

[Traditional-Fist]

My understanding is that Wing Chun was not just "invented" by someone but an art that evolved during many decades and that certain characters were involved in that evolution.

[ClA]

Wing Chun was invented by a women name Ng Mui.

http://www.leungtingwingtsun.net/multimedia/iwta.wmv

[Adonis]

not really of you picking the one you agree with the most. Its all open to your own interpration of its history.

[elbows_and_knees]

ng mui was the nun we referred to earlier...

[ClA]

I thought you just said it was created by her father??