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One day I was loitering around an old Chinese man’s Bonsai tree shop, and he asked me to come in to sweep. I swept his shop every day for several years, and eventually I learned that I wasn’t actually sweeping–I was learning Wing Chun!
-Scott
“Life is hard, but so am I.” – The Eels.
yeah…
Those are some excellent stories. I like the fact that you all answered with sincerity and not any amount of ego getting in the way. Any body else have their story to share?
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Watchamn..I know you’re out there…What got you into Wing Chun?
I started because my friend did Wing Chun and said it was good. Exciting, huh?
Slayer~Good point about people not being able to tell that your a MA…your right…
IXIJoe KaveyIXI
hi my friend
im traning about 11 years and like first im like martial arts and kung fu but my only choice in that moment is be wing chun and intonjutsu ;im mean wing chun is only real kung fu style of animal styles ( but in last time in world we have that many wingchungers but that litlle wing chun) - just friendly tiger_1 
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I had always been interested in learning some form of Kung Fu (I was a big fan of Bruce Lee and the David Caradine series when I was younger. One day my wife drug me to a book store where I proceeded to look for a book on Tai Chi. Luckily the only Kung fu book was on Wing Chun (M. Tse and Ip Chun). The theory really made sense to me, so I found a school nearby, and now we are both hooked on the art.
‘…and China is still serving rice in Tibet!’
My grandad did Hung Gar and some other style…my mom did taekwondo and my uncle did Shotokan. My dad did Wing Chun. One big martial arts family 
Used to get into alot of fights in grade school because I didn’t take sh!t from anybody…my dad began forcing me to learn Wing Chun since I was 7, around grade 2 because he knew that being a asian kid meant you were generally smaller than the white and black kids. He figured I needed to make up for this disadvantage in size with martial skill…
I never took it seriously until I was 15 or so…that’s when I began learning from another sifu, but at least I had a great foundation from my early training. My dad was always very critical of bad habits and such in my techniques and so I constantly had to watch myself. My current teacher never pays that much attention to his students
Anyways, that’s my quick and unremarkable story
a big quick defeat
Well I was mighty cocky after doing MA for a while and having only lost one fight.
One day I heard about this young fighter who was supposed to be very good, so naturally I challenged him :). 20-30 seconds later I begged him not to hit me anymore, and have been practicing WT ever since.
4 me…
I always loved MA since i was a kid, but moms was overprotective, so i played bball to keep her at peace, but my pops taught me abit of boxing..when I was 15 i wrestled in high school for 2 years, also a friend taught me alittle JKD, i was more like his punching bag when i couldn’t throw him, but i picked up what i needed at the time. Never had the ca to go study WC anywhere, tried Kempo for a year, but didn’t like the way it moved, it was too rigid. Once i found a good sifu in WC i signed up & will be sticking with this for good.
i think watchman got into muay thai at 15 cos of bruce lee, and then switched to wing chun 
Edd
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The battle started with a grapple, he had real long hair so a grabbed a hand full, and chopped 'em in the Adams-apple, his partner in back of you tried to attack you, so I’ma twist 'em up like a pret-zel then I’ma tag you/I can’t believe he wanna grapple again, I swung 'em around like I was dancing wit 'em, put his arms in back of his head and snapped 'em again, I fractured his limbs and put em in the figure-“6 subtracted from 10”…
how i got started
i was into martial arts. i did tae kwon do but later found out it wasn’t something really for me so i looked around my area for schools but couldn’t find any really good schools.
i later bought a jeet kune do book. in there, bruce mentioned he did a chinese style known as wing chun and that just stuck in my head.
one day later, i saw an article of wing chun and at the bottom, it said that the guy studied his stuff in monterey park- somewhere sorta close to where i lived.
checked it out one time and took a class a second. unfortunately, i had no ride except for two “friends” and after the first class they didn’t want to take me. had to wait for a few months later and finally got to participate in a real wing chun kwoon.
LOL!
Sharky is incorrect, but he’s close.