Most of martial arts practioners spend almost all of their training time to improve their physical condition, their technical skills and try to spend a lot of time in the boxing ring or performing Chi Sao, because they think quite rightly this is the only way they will improve their performances. Ho...
Many of you have seen this wonderful execution of Bruce Lee during Longbeach martial arts festival in 1964 (see the video), throw a punch without momentum and send his opponent distance away. Here are few explanations and ideas if you wish to acquire this incredible power of one inch punch. Before s...
It is always hard for us western people to apply the Asian philosophy especially when talking about martial arts that are seen in our culture as techniques allowing to fight and defend ourselves only. But if we use the pragmatic view of this philosophy, all of a sudden we find a new interest in the...
Before you can better understand what are the 5 elements in wing chun martial art, you have to come back to the Taoist culture with the idea of Yin/Yang. I could as so many others cite ancient texts and say that: Yin Yang expression finds its meaning in change, mutation, movement. These two forces i...
A criticism I often hear is that Wing Chun strike is not powerful, that our direct punch cannot break the opponent’s bones. To that I answer that our goal is not to break bones but to make the opponent vibrate. Wing Chun is based on Taoist culture, life philosophy but also a way of body wellness thr...
