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The Tao of Wing Chun

The History and Principles of China’s Most Explosive Martial Art

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The Tao of Wing Chun

By: Danny Xuan, John Little
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
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Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese kung fu in the world today, with more than four million practitioners. This guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master.

The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than 300 years. Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art's techniques are presented and performed the way they are. This book, by Wing Chun master Danny Xuan and martial-arts authority John Little, is the first to decipher these techniques that until now have been encrypted within this art.

Xuan and Little reveal how Wing Chun was designed holistically, based on the laws of physics, human nature, and biomechanics. It was also designed with economy, efficiency, and productivity in mind.

Unlike other martial arts, Wing Chun doesn't focus on making a person larger, more rugged, acrobatic, or animal-like; rather, it focuses on making optimal use of one's own bodily structure and power potential by applying the sciences of biomechanics and physics. Thus, it is possible for males and females of all ages and sizes to excel in this art.

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I thought it was interesting and informative, it was hard to take it all in, I would need another listen or two to take it in.

Interesting

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Both authors are very well informed and at least one of them seems to teach his own class. They discuss the Wing Chun martial art from a historical viewpoint, medical and sports.
The guess that Wing Chun stems from one of the matriarchal groups in China is interesting.
I like how they discuss the origins and meaning of the words like chi and Centreline.
I will have to reread the book to grasp more of what was discussed.

In depth

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Confusing all the way throughout the book!

I definitely wouldn’t recommend this to anyone else.

Confusing!!

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not worth it, very poorly argued. Insults others for their beliefs and then goes on to make guesses and assume he is correct in the same way.

a diservice to practitioners

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The book itself is cleary written by an arrogant, elitist, and clouded writer ignorant of anything outside of what they're doing, with a great deal of gatekeeping of what it is to do a martial art. Now narrated by a typical shouty American voice that you'd expect to find in an infomercial advert. I'm very glad to have not had to pay for this.

Ignorant, arrogant, wordy.

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