These are terms used in the

Chinese martial art Chinese martial arts, often called by the umbrella terms kung fu (; ), kuoshu () or wushu (), are multiple fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in Greater China. These fighting styles are often classified according to common ...

Wing Chun Wing Chun (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring"), sometimes spelled Ving Tsun, is a concept-based fighting art, form of Nanquan (martial art), Southern Chinese kung fu and close-quarters system of self-defense. In Mandarin, it is ...

. They are originally colloquial

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...

(or

Foshan Foshan (, ), alternately romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the ...

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slang Slang is vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in spoken conversation but avoided in formal writing. It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-gro ...

). Thus, their meanings might be difficult to trace. Some of those terms are used in

Jeet Kune Do Jeet Kune Do is a primarily wing chun kung fu inspired eclectic martial arts philosophy heavily influenced and adapted by the Taoist personal life philosophy and experiences of martial artist Bruce Lee. Overview and philosophy Jeet Kune ...

, sometimes with a different meaning.

Forms

Family Lineage Titles or Terms

Limb names

18 hand technique names

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Limb movement names

Drills

Wing Chun Sifu Sean Mann playing Chi Sau With Grand Master Ip Chun - Copy

Other techniques: 1.Lin Wan Kuen - Chain Punch 2.

One inch punch The one-inch punch is a punching exercise from Chinese martial arts performed at a range of . The one-inch punch was popularized by actor and martial artist Bruce Lee. It is purported to improve punching power and technique. History The one ...

3.Wing chun Double punch 4.Pai jarn - Horizontal "Hacking" Elbow strike 5.Kwan sau - Rotating Hand 6.Gaun Sau – Splitting Hand 7.Yee Jee Kim Yueng Ma – Horse Stance (In some Lineages this is translated as 'Small Aduction Goat stance (or Figure 2 Stance due to the gap at the knees being smaller than at the feet thereby looking like the character Two in chinese writing) Some Lineages don't turn the whole foot pigeon toed, instead only the front of the foot with the sides of the foot being parallel 8.Wing Chun Centerline Training 9.

Iron Palm Iron Palm or Iron Hand (Chinese: wikt:鐵, 鐵wikt:掌, 掌wikt:功, 功) is a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts. It is originally one of the 72 arts of the Shaolin temple. These conditioning techniques are typically m ...

Training

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