The original purpose of this article was to document the differences in a handful of Wing Chun lineage’s Wooden Dummy form. However, what I quickly learned was that this is not an easy task in a written format… And I feel it would be unfair to say that ALL Wing Chun people from XZY lineage do such and such.
The reason I bring this up is that I am quickly discovering that many high level Wing Chun people are often influenced by more than one person. For example, I believe that most WC practitioners can agree that Ip Man learned from, and was influenced by, Chan Wah Shun and Leung Bik in some shape or form.
Rather than a comparison of three different lineages, we thought it would better represent the art if we shared three different perspectives of the mok yan jong. We asked these three well known teachers, “What can you learn from the dummy?”
Below is some of the information I collected: