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Review – James Sinclair’s Wall Bag Training DVD

What it’s about: 

This DVD covers the essentials of Wing Chun Kung – Fu wall bag training, its associated warm up exercises and applications.

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Wing Chun as in many of the Chinese martial arts has training equipment unique in developing one’s power and skill in combative applications. Although most martial artists are aware of the Mook Jong or wooden dummy, used in training, perhaps many are unfamiliar with the three section wall bag in developing power. The first part of this DVD provides a great deal of time on the proper exercises or warm ups to prevent injury and damage to the internal organs, because of the acupuncture points associated with the fingers. So caution is given in preparing the hands and knowing how to strike the bag to minimize soft tissue damage. There are Chinese herbal preparations which are taken orally and herbs applied externally to the hands to promote the healing process. If you’re able to obtain the correct herbal preparation you actually could make the muscular of the hands far more lethal.

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Review of Thommy Luke Boehlig’s Wing Tsjun 3 DVD Set

What it’s about: 

A three disc DVD set contained in one case providing instruction in the fundamentals of Wing Chun Kung-fu. Sifu Boehlig traces his Wing Chun Lineage through Leung Ting and Allen Fong.

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Boehlig starts his DVD with a short description of Wing Chun’s history and his lineage though Leung Ting and Allen Fong. He attributes his style of Kung Fu as a “Soft” style in which a person learns to use the principles of Wing Chun through softness, relaxation and flexibility to overcome a bigger and stronger opponent. Like other DVD’s of this genre, he approaches the basics of Wing Chun from the idea of ranges… that is, the distance which exist between yourself and the opponent. He talks about the distance where one does not engage the opponent and those distances which involve kicks and those that require punching. As well as the close range zone where you encounter an opponent and you use your knees, elbows and head if necessary.

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Review – Ving Tsun Musuem’s Trapping Hands

VTM Wing Chun Series #10 Trapping Hands By Sifu Benny Meng
The first three videos of the VTM Wing Chun Series focused on the “Bread and Butter” of the Wing Chun Gung Fu system through the teachings of the Sil Nim Tao, Chum Kiu, and Biu Ji levels of training. In this last video of the series, Sifu Meng puts everything together based on the attributes and techniques learned from the previous DVDs. Trapping Hands is probably the most well know (and feared) aspects of the Wing Chun fighters arsenal, but Sifu Meng is quick to point out that trapping an opponent’s hands is not something you should look for during a fight.

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Review – Ving Tsun Musuem’s Long Pole (Luk Dim Boon Kwan)

VTM Wing Chun Series #9 Long Pole (Luk Dim Boon Kwan) By Sifu Benny Meng
The Luk Dim Boon Kwan (Six and a Half Point Pole) is perhaps the most misunderstood forms in Wing Chun. I have seen many variations of this form and heard several explanations of the meaning behind the term “Six and a Half Point”. Now, not to say that anyone else is wrong, but Sifu Meng’s description of the six and a half concepts that comprise the long pole form makes the most sense to me. In section seven, Sifu Meng pulls up a chart that gives a detailed explanation of the seven main fighting concepts of which comprises the pole form; the seventh concept explains the half point that brings the other six concepts together in a continuous flow of movement. This is the reason behind the name given to the Long Pole form.

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Review – Ving Tsun Musuem’s Shaolin Wooden Dummy (5-8)

VTM Wing Chun Series #8 Shaolin Wooden Dummy (Part Two, Sections 5-8) By Sifu Benny Meng
Shaolin Wooden Dummy Part Two focuses on sections five through eight of the wooden dummy form. The last sections of the dummy form contain a wide variety of kicking techniques as well as the quick trapping hand movements of Wing Chun. Sifu Meng is assisted by three of his top students who help with the demonstrations. I really like this because it gives you a sense of how Sifu Meng teaches in person and it is also nice to see how his students move on the dummy as compared to their teacher. As Sifu Meng pointed out in the first Wooden Dummy video, teaching the movements of the dummy form without explaining the concepts behind them would be very superficial. It is here in the full explanation of Wing Chun’s fighting concepts that Sifu Meng separates his videos from so many others on the same subject.

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Review – Ving Tsun Musuem’s Shaolin Wooden Dummy (1-4)

VTM Wing Chun Series #7 Shaolin Wooden Dummy (Part One, Sections 1-4) By Sifu Benny Meng
There is something about training on the Shaolin Wooden Dummy that gives one the sense of fulfillment. Perhaps it is knowing that for over three centuries the wooden dummy has been used as a tool to perfect the movements of one of the world’s most effective systems of personal combat. Or maybe it is based solely on the fact that training on this special apparatus combines all the fighting concepts of Wing Chun’s three empty hand forms into one. Furthermore, continuous practice will develop the proper footwork, positioning, and energy release so crucial to the Wing Chun System. Whatever the reason, having a respected master of Wing Chun guide you through the form movement by movement is a must.

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Review – Ving Tsun Musuem’s Biu Ji: Thrusting Fingers

VTM Wing Chun Series #5/6 Biu Ji: Thrusting Fingers & Focus Control By Sifu Benny Meng
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Biu Ji is the third hand form taught in Wing Chun Gung Fu. For years this level of training was kept as a highly-guarded secret in the Ip Man Wing Chun School, and it was only taught to a few select “closed door” students. I have seen a quite a few videos on Biu Ji and I have to say that each Sifu has his (or her) own interpretation of the applications and true purpose behind this form, perhaps due to the secretive nature this form had for so many years. However, they all seem to agree that this form contains the most advanced concepts and techniques of the Wing Chun system. Contained in this form are some very special techniques that the Wing Chun man can use to recover the dominant position if he finds that he has lost the advantage in a fight.

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