can some of you guys/gals tell me how a uppercut should be done in wing chun. Is it similar to a boxing type one in the sense that your fist is horizontal or should you make contact with you fist verticle like other punching.
Any other advise on the subject would be greatly appreciated
Wing Chun uppercuts 
david
Its in the second form. Learn the form… and you will learn the uppercut.
Wing Chun uppercut
Drilling punch “joung-lo kuen” is a mid level punch that travels down the center-line and stops with the elbow about a fist
away from the practitioners own body with palm facing upward. This punch drills forward and makes contact with the entire
fist, while focusing on the front two knuckles because of the angle of the fist. This punch has forward energy with a slight
upward drill; it may also be used similar to a boxer’s uppercut. Don’t extend this punch; keep it close to the body and bring
your body to the target.
(This is my Si-Fu’s explaination of this punch)
For more!..
mabe my second form is a little different from yours S Teebas, cos im not ure if mine contains an uppercut or at least i dont recognise it as an uppercut, which part of the form are you refering to.
Do you mean the punch after the three stepping bong saus, is this also the part your refering to old jong?
There’s no real uppercut in Sum Nung WCK (though there are some more linear drilling punches). Some in the Yip Man system teach a Chow Choi (Bounce Punch) in Chum Kiu that swings the fist in an upward arc resembling an uppercut, but using different mechanics (hip still involved, just a different way than boxing).
Rgds,
RR
the chum kiu move looks like an uppercut to me, feels like one too
can you be more specific than the chum kiu move, there are lots of them?
“Do you mean the punch after the three stepping bong saus, is this also the part your
refering to old jong?”
Exactly!..As Rene said, it is not really an “uppercut” as a boxer would do but it can be adapted very easily as the drilling motion is almost the same .Think of half an uppercut.You can go straight horizontal or you can go up.
(I hope this is compreensible!) Help me english guys!..
thanks jong and rene that helped a lot
i’ll just have to wait until i finish SLT then 
thx for explaining it to me,
david
That punch in Chum Kiu can be an upper cut, or an arm break. Stop it halfway through its motion and you have a body shot.
-FJ
We were taught that punch in chum kiu two ways.
One, as a bounce punch (I thought we called that chow choi, but my memory might not serve me correctly - it’s different to the one that Rene describes), but starting palm up and flicking out to strike with the top two knuckles. This was to be aimed specifically just above the nipples.
Two, more like a cross between the one Old Jong and the one Rene describes. Twists into a palm up position as it drills upwards, for the whole fist to strike at the throat.
Hmmm.
Back to the kwoon. Again.
wt punches
In the CK form we learn that there are 4 different punches.
And then of course the chain punches at the end.
Peter
Chum Qiu has 4 punches?
How many punches are there in total in WC?
All wc punches are founded on the wc straight punch…but spacing and angling creates different punches. They can be labelled differently in various wing chun lineages. In mine we categories them into 8 families of punches. One of them isnt but provides the foundation for the so called uppercut. So called because of the differences in boxing and wing chun structure and motion. Now watch RH do a poor imitation of WH… so ahead of time…
Heres the WSL take on it, the punch referred to as an uppercut is just a variation of the straight punch. The concept is identical, the fist goes the shortest distance to the target.
The other idea behind this is that your centre is being threatened, and your arm is out hanging in bong sao, so the elbow comes comes to the centre as you punch, covering and diverting as you hit.
Oh yeah, thanks Frank!
The two descriptions above are the reasons for both of the variations I had described to me.
The shortest route to the target is the bounce punch. The cover and redirect is the drill.
The key to an uppercut is it’s placement and intention. How does one focus intention?