The Tao of Wing Chun: The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art

The Tao of Wing Chun: The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art

by John Little, Danny Xuan
The Tao of Wing Chun: The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art

The Tao of Wing Chun: The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art

by John Little, Danny Xuan

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Overview

Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over four million practitioners. With 48 full-color illustrations, this guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master.

The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than three hundred years. Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art’s techniques are presented and performed the way they are. This book, by Wing Chun master Danny Xuan and martial-arts authority John Little, is the first to decipher these techniques that until now have been encrypted within this art.

Xuan and Little reveal how Wing Chun was designed holistically, based on the laws of physics, human nature, and biomechanics. It was also designed with economy, efficiency, and productivity in mind.

Unlike other martial arts, Wing Chun doesn’t focus on making a person larger, more rugged, acrobatic or animal-like; rather, it focuses on making optimal use of one’s own bodily structure and power potential by applying the sciences of biomechanics and physics. Thus, it is possible for males and females of all ages and sizes to excel in this art. The Table of Contents includes;
  • Genesis: The Original of Martial Art
  • On the Original of Win Chun
  • Wing Chun and The Art of War
  • Centerline: The Science of Concentration
  • Wing Chun: The Science of the Human Body and the Human Mind
  • Building and Preserving Strength
  • And much more!

The Tao of Wing Chun provides a readable, authoritative means of cultivating personal protection skills, enhanced flexibility, improved coordination, greater stamina, and physical and mental fitness while simultaneously cultivating humility, focus, determination, self-confidence, character, camaraderie, and deep inner strength. Foremost, this book offers the reader the means by which to apply Wing Chun principles in daily life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781510723177
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 05/14/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 451,330
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Little has been a personal trainer for more than a dozen years. The author of over a dozen books on health, fitness, and exercise, including The Art of Expressing the Human Body, Max Contraction Training, and Body by Science, Little has been hailed by Ironman magazine as “one of the leading fitness researchers in the world.” He resides in Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface v

Introduction ix

1 Wing Chun: A Reality Check 1

2 Genesis: The Origin of Martial Art 9

3 Martial Art: The Chinese Connection 17

4 Grandmaster IP Man 27

5 On the Origin of Wing Chun 33

6 The Wing Chun Concept 45

7 Wing Chun and The Art of War 51

8 The Centerline: The Science of Concentration 69

9 Chisau: The Science of Espionage 83

10 Structure: The Science of Architecture 89

11 Force: The Science of Physics and the Essence of Wing Chun 129

12 Speed: The Science of Time and Space 187

13 Wing Chun: The Science of the Human Body and the Human Mind 193

14 Building and Preserving Strength 199

15 On the Value of Wing Chun 215

Glossary 221

Notes on the Text 227

Authors' Notes 231

Acknowledgments 237

Index 241

About the Authors 258

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