What is Ving Tsun/Wing Chun? What makes Ving Tsun special? What is its feature? If you ask me to describe Ving Tsun in a few words, simple, direct, and efficient.

Simplest movement/minimum effort, most direct (shortest) path, maximum result/outcome. I can’t say it’s the most efficient, but it is more than enough efficiency to deal with any movement that is more complex, more indirect, longer, and bigger than Ving tsun. This is speaking of its application in real fights.

Compared to any other style, in terms of training system design, I have not seen any style that is easier than Ving Tsun as well. What do I mean by system design? Just check how many forms it has, we can already learn a lot, 3 empty hands, 1 wooden dummy, 2 weapons, I dare to say compare with any other style, is definitely less content, if we research deeper, we will find that only 2 forms are commonly used in real fights application, so it’s really really never ever lesser in Traditional Chinese kung fu history.

However, does less mean easier, or lack of content? I would say definitely not, it’s simplified, not unfinished or incomplete, any unfinished style, art, won’t be inherited until today, all kung fu systems that you have heard, or those you can still find their names, it means there’s a group of people practicing it, otherwise, you won’t even know the name, make sense? In other words, if you find something that is useless/meaningless, even harmful to do so, will you tell your child(ren) to do so? Will you want to pass it to your descendants? I don’t think so.

Therefore, in old times, when Ving Tsun was not as popular as it is today, some other kung fu styles amateurs tended to underestimate Ving Tsun, since it looked totally harmless, with a weird stance, not as big as you can see in other styles. But they don’t know because of its simplicity, there are a lot of drills, workouts hidden, they can’t be seen by the public, Ving Tsun is a collection of concepts and/or ideas, drills/mutual trainings are very important, you need to try and prove those concepts and/or ideas by yourself with another human being, unlike a lot other styles, you do shadow boxing of techniques, and their combinations again and again, I’m not talking down to them, just different methodology.