Why you May want to learn Ving Tsun
1. The most obvious reason: For your health, to prevent possible injury from the incorrect usage of the force of your body:
Traditional kung fu includes Ving Tsun, emphasizing the usage of our skeletal system by strengthening it. We won’t just rely on our muscles; we will also learn how to protect them by utilizing our bodies in the correct way. For example, my mother hurt her Menisci because of her bad habit when running, when crouching, and sometimes her waist muscles also get a lot of pain, because she doesn’t know how to coordinate different body parts to keep a certain posture healthily.
By training in kung fu, you will know how to utilize your muscles, tendons, bones, etc., in a balanced way.
2. The second most obvious reason: For your confidence, your fighting skill/ability
As you can see in “About”, what Traditional Kung Fu and Ving Tsun Kung Fu are about. By acquiring confidence when you are in a conflict (in your training), you will definitely find it easier to stay calm, no matter what happens in your life. You won’t easily lose control of your body.
3. The reason you may not know: Following No.2, not only your limbs, but also explore internally
Kung Fu is one of the most practical ways to do self-cultivation, to have self-esteem. Like meditation, you can explore and/or observe yourself. It’s very important to be very well aware of yourself, especially in fighting, so this is not far-fetched; this is not a joke. Understanding yourself might be much harder than understanding others, but it’s much more powerful.
4. Additionally, Kung Fu and/or Ving Tsun Kung Fu have their cultural attributes
By learning and understanding Kung Fu, you start to understand the way ancient Chinese philosophy thinks about the world,
which is originally from the I Ching. Chinese Kung Fu has its own special history, a lot of which is from Buddhism (aka the Shaolin temple).
In ancient China, Dao and Chan had already combined/mixed/put together in a good harmony, and they support each other.
Therefore, almost all kung fu systems’ design was influenced; this kind of background makes them very interesting to learn as well.
