What is the significance of triangles in Wing Chun?
The best explanation I’ve seen of triangles is in Sep/Oct Kungfu Qigong magazine. Under an article called “Siu Lim Tao, Wing Chun’s Unique Form”. The author gives a really good description of the structure & function of triangles.
I won’t print it here for 2 reasons:
(1) I’ve NO idea of the copyright laws about it
(2) There’s a LOT of typing involved.
The author is Patrick Gordon 
“Pain is merely weakness leaving the body”
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Triangles are a type of miniature gong that make music suitable for meditation and are therefore useful when practising SLT. You need a partner to play the triangle though, because if you try to play them yourself while performing SLT, you will end up developing bad habits.
Max
Yooby Yoody
triangles
“Triangles” in Wing Chun are important. Structurally, they are very strong and more stable than ather shapes that have four or more vertices. In addition, by facing squarely to your partner/opponent naturally when you extend your arms towards your partner/opponent it’s going to create angles which can be utilized in a variety of ways: attack, deflections, etc.
Incidently, I find this kind of interesting… there are lots of “3’s” in Wing Chun where techniques are repeated 3 times in the forms, and a triangle, also, has 3 vertices and three sides.
Marty
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Depends on focus
Hello,
Not much time as I am at work but here is my take;
Wing Chun is based on the concept of the Triangle. You can find it in the stepping patterns and the stance. If you take the basic stance you can find several triangles. The feet form the base of a triangle which extends forward and meets in front of the person. Consider the knee position as well as whether or not you point the toes. If you point the toes then you will fidn that where they would meet, drawing a line from each foot, forms the completion of this triangle.
You can also find a triangle extending from the shoulders outward to where the hands meet. This would be the optimum position for you to exert power, within this triangle.
There is plenty more to it then this but that is all I have time for right now. Plus this is better explained in person as it loses something in this medium.
Peace,
Dave
German Article / Website
There is a website / article that was originally in german, you can find it by doing searches on Wing Chun / centerline / motherline. The page, as I reacall is in german, but has a link for a translated version.
When I get home from work and school I can possibly find it on my history or favorites at home and post a link. The biggest info I can give you about it is the word motherline.
The article was written by a group of persons with little initial expierence with wing chun or even CMA i believe. The reason its significant, is that they describe nearly all positions and movements in terms of geometric shapes etc, they even discuss the significance of triangles etc.
I found it very interesting, and you can even compare the article to stuff written by so-called ‘masters’ when they begin to discuss power generation and the shapes, stance, positions - general body mechanics etc.
Like I said, they spend a large amount of time on triangles.
Other places to check right now would be:
both a good place for links, articles, and further leads.
strike!
Run into a triangle going towards you and then run into a square.
See the difference?
Run into a moving circle and then run into a square.
See the difference?
That is the significance of the triangle and cirlce in wing chun…
IXIJoe KaveyIXI
I am Sharky’s main man…
Think this is it.
Deep in the history log:
http://www.wingchun.com/chadhuri.shtml
Looks like it!
strike!
Triangles
Rotation between Tan, Fook and Bong describes a cone shape. Any of these movements frozen at any point represents a triangle, ie a cone is a 3D representation of triangles.
Conceptualising the transmission of your force via a cone shape can improve your effectiveness at both deflecting an opponent’s force and concentrating your own force into his centre.
Max
Yooby Yoody