What is Wing Tsun?

[Goju_boi]

are the simple blocks the "sticky hands"/chi sao thing?

[MenteReligieuse]

no

[stonecrusher69]

The style of WC I practice is liniar but has circular footwork also.We have a whole form based on that.Not all WC styles are liniar and some do have animal forms in them as well.

[MenteReligieuse]

Circular footwork in wing chun? Interesting.

In my class we train a bit in shaolin deep stances to strenghten the legs, and also do some grappling and ground control. Still pretty linear, other than sidestepping diagonaly to get out of the way of the opponents forward momentum.

[stonecrusher69]

the form we practice is called siu baat gua (little trigram)its our 4th form in Fut Sao it deal with steping in circular movements.If you look at the wooden dummy form (yip Man)the stepping has part of the circular or the siu baat gua but its incomplete as it does not complete the circle.

[Goju_boi]

so what is this "sticky hands"/chi sao thing that I always hear when somebidy is talking about wing chun?

[Traditional-Fist]

basically, it's the wing chun system as taught by emin bozteppe. As far as I know, none ot the WC systems do any real grappling, other than what some of them refer to as "anti grappling". I have a friend who has spent several years in WT, and he doesn't grapple at all.

The Wing Chun style practiced by me has grappling and ground fighting, praciticed by the more advanced level students, using, of course Wing Chun principles and concepts.

[Goju_boi]

The Hung Fa Yi lineage taught at my school has ground work as well

[elbows_and_knees]

basically, it's the wing chun system as taught by emin bozteppe. As far as I know, none ot the WC systems do any real grappling, other than what some of them refer to as "anti grappling". I have a friend who has spent several years in WT, and he doesn't grapple at all.

The Wing Chun style practiced by me has grappling and ground fighting, praciticed by the more advanced level students, using, of course Wing Chun principles and concepts.

Do you have some footage of that or a link or something? I'd like to see it.

[IAmGod]

Introduction video.

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

Wing Chun for street fights.

http://www.sifugrados.com/mcvideos.shtml

This is one of my favorate video by Mater Gary Lam. You need to watch this.

http://www.garylamwingchun.com/GaryLam.wmv

In case you don't know who Gary Lam is, he is a Wing Chun master, as well as a MT kick boxing instructor. I believe he was the head trainer for the Hong Kong police once.

http://www.garylamwingchun.com/photos_hk.html