What is the reason Wing Chun was created?
When Wing Chun was originally devised and created from other styles that currently existed what was the reason for its invention or creation?
So that rebel Han fighters could kick some Manchu butt.
[QUOTE=Phil Redmond;1138191]So that rebel Han fighters could kick some Manchu butt.[/QUOTE]
So Wing Chun as a System was developed to kill and fight?
[QUOTE=Yoshiyahu;1138198]So Wing Chun as a System was developed to kill and fight?[/QUOTE]
No bout adoubt it. 
If you have any doubts on the totem pole of items I would pull on you if not a gun back in the wild west of China …watch this clip. Ving Tsun ‘Butchers’ ..P Bayer likes to intimidate us when he gets ready for knife drills by acting like a butcher sharpening the knife for carving 
dont be the pig…move, flank, be evasive and unpredictable. And have a sharp blade…
[URL=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YW8nckzt-Bc”]
Knives at work…Clip
Wing Chun had it’s beginnings on the Red Boat circuit. They had to deal with bandits and river pirates a lot. They carried lots of goods and valuables with them as well as their equipment and stores, and they had to protect them. Wing Chun is a close combat system that can be applied in small spaces like the entrance and passage ways of a junk. The deck and gang planks as well. You can’t do all that jumping around and swinging in such close areas. The pole that was used to push the junk about in shallow water was also used to fight off anyone that would try to board the junk. Much later it was adopted by the armies because it could be taught and retained quickly and efficiently. It is an effective fighting system. My father told me that he learned Wing Chun from ex army guys.
Someone thought “hey I think I should make a style that in four hundred years people from all over the world can argue about what a tan sao is”
My 2 cents…
Nobody knows why or how VT evloved. It’s all pure specualtion and myth. What we do know is that it was passed down in small groups and secret societies. Those small groups ended in the time of Bruce Lee and the system has since become one of the most popular systems of Chinese Gung Fu in the world…but the most misunderstood.
The problem with Ving Tsun is the system itself. There are so many facets to the it that if taught incorrectly or misinterpreted by even one person it can change the whole wheel.
Better not to think about the past! Nobody can be sure unless you are a dreamer.
GH
Who can explain it- who can tell you why
Fools can give reasons, wise men never try.
Oscar Hammerstein- Some enchanted evening - in South Pacific.
[QUOTE=Yoshiyahu;1138151]What is the reason Wing Chun was created?
When Wing Chun was originally devised and created from other styles that currently existed what was the reason for its invention or creation?[/QUOTE]
IMHO, the main reason for WC’s creation is no different from that of other kung fu styles in that it is another efficient methodology for combat and self defense.
The other reason for Wing Chun’s creation, hundreds of years ago, was to provide the future modern MMA-ists who have nothing better to do with their lives, something to badmouth!
[QUOTE=Yoshiyahu;1138151]What is the reason Wing Chun was created?
When Wing Chun was originally devised and created from other styles that currently existed what was the reason for its invention or creation?[/QUOTE]
The actual origin of VT is probably shrouded in the mists of time.
WC was created for fighting.
The way we fight was a necessity of living on boats if you believe the opera version, or because south china is heavily populated so big flashy movements are decremental to efficiency when you fight inside big mobs
Why
I believe Wing Chun was created b/c they didn’t have bowling alleys yet!
Don Berry
[QUOTE=donbdc;1138363]I believe Wing Chun was created b/c they didn’t have bowling alleys yet!
Don Berry[/QUOTE]
Hey Don Long time no hear…how have you been?
Hey
Doing well Training, Powerlifting and swinging kettlebells Plus raising 2 teenage boys, keeping the wife happy and running a business. Trying to find time to sleep!
Are you watching the Series?
Sleep is for the weak!!!
[QUOTE=donbdc;1138437]Doing well Training, Powerlifting and swinging kettlebells Plus raising 2 teenage boys, keeping the wife happy and running a business. Trying to find time to sleep!
Are you watching the Series?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=k gledhill;1138216]If you have any doubts on the totem pole of items I would pull on you if not a gun back in the wild west of China …watch this clip. Ving Tsun ‘Butchers’ ..P Bayer likes to intimidate us when he gets ready for knife drills by acting like a butcher sharpening the knife for carving
dont be the pig…move, flank, be evasive and unpredictable. And have a sharp blade…
[URL=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YW8nckzt-Bc”]
Knives at work…Clip[/QUOTE]
I have a pair of those and they are scary. I rarely train with them. One mistake and you’re sliced really bad. I use one of my other 8 pair of knives to train with. The Cold Steel knives are for home protection only.
[QUOTE=Phil Redmond;1138579] The Cold Steel knives are for home protection only.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean that Cold Steel knives are for home protection only, please explain? I was thinking of the Cold Steel knives for my first set. I don’t care too much for their other knives but I like the look of the bart jam daos.
What is the reason Wing Chun was created?
So that 200 hundred years later men (generally middle aged) could moan, groan and b@#&h at eachother on an internet forum
[QUOTE=Yoshiyahu;1138151]What is the reason Wing Chun was created?
When Wing Chun was originally devised and created from other styles that currently existed what was the reason for its invention or creation?[/QUOTE]
It was created so WC guys in the 21th century would ask this question. Just look at China history its says it all. Every culture fights. No mystery. WC is just a foot note in history.