Looking into the depths of China’s past and back across the broad span of time leading us to the contemporary world, one can see a vast and murky expanse; to which, I’m sure we all struggle to attach ourselves. I think it can be safely said that “a history, of no history” has been given us by China, and this from the purely practical standpoint of a Kung Fu practitioner.
It is my opinion that Wing Chun is unique amongst Chinese martial art, a southern style of Kung Fu based on tung kiu or the short arm bridge; it is a product of a tumultuous cultural upheaval spanning thousands of years and surfacing for our use as intelligent beings. As Wong Shun Leung might have put it: “beyond civilized conversation, how is it that human beings interface?”, here an understanding of the Chi in China is all important. The mere mention of China draws a huge blank on most peoples screens, what if this disguise has been in place purposefully? Guiding theorists and academics into the netherworld of abstraction, or what if martial art has come to you…
