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Posted by Zhuge Liang on 12/3/2002, 10:46 pm If your looking for training drills that will complement your training (if I recall, you do JDK or MMA or something like that), probably the stuff from Dan Inosanto will be more useful to you. They contain some Wing Chun principles, and will probably work for you better than anything you can find in a Wing Chun book. If you're serious about Wing Chun, the only option is to find a good teacher, which may or may not be difficult. Sorry if that's not what you want to hear, but as someone who's read through pretty much all Wing Chun books I could find at any book store, I can't honestly say there's one worth reading for the purpose of training. If you want to get an general idea (very general) of different Wing Chun branches and brief summaries of their histories, Complete Wing Chun by Rene Ritchie is pretty good. For Wing Chun concepts and principles, you'd be better off searching the net for various Wing Chun articles. Not all are good, but there are a few good ones. Here are a couple of links with some good articles Some of the stuff may or may not be relevant to you due to their compatabilities with your current training, but they're interesting reads if you have the spare time. Regards,
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In my experience, those are the worst kinds of martial arts books. All you have is a bunch of pictures, all out of context, with vague descriptions, and questionable applications. They contain very limited views of what the outside looks like, with nothing on the essence of the art, what makes it effective, and how to make it work for you. What's more, Wing Chun technique books tend to be worse (more primitive) than most others.
http://www.wingchun.com/articles.shtml
http://www.vingtsun.com.hk/
Zhuge Liang
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