Wing Chun Martial Arts training

Finally, I started my first lesson of Wing Chun training.

It was about an hour and 15 minutes long and it costs me RM150 per month.

So far I still do not know how good my current Wing Chun Sifu is although his lineage is from Yip Man. Judging from how some of his more experienced student is performing it is not so promising. Maybe my expectation is just too high at the moment.

The Wing Chun class I went is rather large, about 20+ people. With so many people you can't expect too much from each lesson. Basically my Wing Chun Sifu just separates us all into three different groups and teach one group at a time, some of his senior student will help out.

The first lesson we beginners were thought the straight punch and straight palm. If you have read my previous article you should already know that I learn some Wing Chun from videos. So I was doing the same thing I learn from the video when Sifu teaches it.

The good thing about learning from a Wing Chun Sifu other than learning from video is that they can correct your mistakes. I got the form right but I used mostly dead force on my punches and palm. The idea is to only use force on contact and leave your arm and hand relax after contact.

We were also thought the most basic stance of Wing Chun. I don't know how to describe the name of the stance in English here but Wing Chun's stance will look weird to the general public in my opinion. And the name will be weird as well, I think it is call the goat stance.

One more thing I learn from this lesson that video training can't teach me is that you have to move you butt a little bit to the front when you are using the goat stance. I wish I can show you how at the moment but too bad. The idea is to shift the body weight to the thigh muscle so you won't injure you knee over time. If you have been training on the basic stance and felt the strain on the knee then you know you are wrong.

One of the senior student noticed that I have had some other training before and asked me about it. It probably did not mean anything but I hope it is for the best. I already learn Siu Lim Tao and Chum Kiu and I wonder whether I should tell them and speed things up a little.

If you live around SS2 and PJ and want to know more about this Wing Chun Martial Arts class, just leave a comment with your email and I will get back to you.