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Wing Chun has various spellings in the West, but "Wing Chun" is the most common. [ 8 ] [ full citation needed ] [ 9 ] [ additional citation(s) needed ] The origins of Wing Chun are uncertain, but it is generally attributed to the development of Southern Chinese martial arts.
Most major branches of Wing Chun taught in the West today were developed and promoted by students of Yip Man. Gu Ruzhang (1894–1952) was a Chinese martial artist who disseminated the Bak Siu Lum (Northern Shaolin) martial arts system across southern China in the early 20th century.
Eric Anthony Oram (born October 13, 1968) is an American Wing Chun Kung Fu practitioner and fight choreographer who introduced a new way of filming fight scenes in the film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in which the actors fought with real strikes and attacks, which were then featured in slow motion at 500 frames per second in the final movie. [4]
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Tran Thuc Tien (Vietnamese: Trần Thúc Tiển) was a Grandmaster of Wing Chun, disciple of General Yuen Chai Wan, a Western educated wine maker and entrepreneur.The title of posthumous honor was awarded to Tran for Martial Arts by the leaders of the Hanoi Martial Arts Association, [3]
Traditional Korean martial arts place emphasis on the development of the practitioner's spiritual and philosophical being. A common theme in most Korean styles, such as Taekkyon , taekwondo , and Hapkido is the value of "inner peace" in a practitioner, which is stressed to be only achievable through individual meditation and training.
Mu ren zhuang (Chinese: 木人桩; pinyin: Mù Rén Zhuāng; lit. 'Wooden Man Post') or Mook Yan Jong (also known as The Wing-Chun Dummy or simply The Wooden Dummy internationally), is a training tool used in various styles of Chinese martial arts, most notably that of Wing Chun and other kung fu styles of Southern China.
In Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian provinces, there are five traditional animal styles known as Ng Ying Kung Fu (Chinese: 五形功夫) Chinese: 五形; pinyin: wǔ xíng; lit. 'Five Forms')—Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon.