Yuen Kay-San Wing Chun: History and Practice
by Rene Ritchie
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Author: Rene RitchieEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01
ISBN: 1892515032
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Unique Publications
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Book Review: A splendid introduction of this rare branch of wing chun.
Summary: 5 Stars
This appears to be the first, and only, book published in english on this relatively rare branch of wing chun. It covers, among other things, the history of this branch of wing chun (which may be eye-opening to those of other lineages), the basics, the twelve conceptual methods, and the sup yee sik (the twelve forms) - my favorite section of the book. Coming as I do from Yip Man's wing chun lineage, I've always been intrigued, and never really understood, this training platform. However, the book's explanations and application photographs finally clarified for me how the concepts are extracted from these general techniques and then expanded and/or linked to create new and surprising applications. Two other aspects of the book make it particularly noteworthy. The first was that the demonstration of the siu lien tao, wing chun's first form, was by Ngo Lui-Kay, one of Grandmaster Sum Nung's personal disciples. And second, the author avoided the hackneyed combat applications that are all too common in wing chun books and instead presented richer, more interesting technical expressions.
It's really a fine effort - and one not to be missed.
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