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I haven't been on the forum in quite a while so please forgive me if this has already been talked about.
I'm building my Wing Chun reference library and was wondering if anybody could give any suggestions for books. I come from the Ip Chun lineage so obviously books from Ip Chun would be ideal as my foundation. I currently have a book on the Foshan wooden dummy form that is in Chinese but it has the pictures. What other books would you suggest?
Old Leung Ting's book are pretty good if you disregard a shameless selfpromotion
The trouble with Wing Chun books (and other media, for that matter) is that they are generally only useful to the writer's specific lineage. And many are pushing a particular agenda.
I actually really like the old "Wing Chun Kung Fu" by James Yimm Lee.
"Complete Wing Chun" by Rene Ritchie, Robert Chu et al is pretty good, though it was something of a political football in its day.
For my own lineage, William Cheung's "Advanced Wing Chun" is a well produced and accurate presentation of his style (ignore the history section, though that goes for ALL Wing Chun books).
For learning about self defence Geoff Thompson's books, especially The Fence and Dead or Alive are excellent.
Complete Wing Chun is a great read, but I think its purpose is more to raise awareness that other branches exist outside of Yip Man's lineage. It doesn't really spend much time going in depth about the art itself, which I assume is more along the lines of what OP is looking for.Quote:
Originally Posted by anerlich
OP, Wing Chun Compendium by Wayne Belonoha is supposed to be pretty good. And since you're in Ip Chun's lineage you might want to have a gander at Mastering Wing Chun by Sam Kwok. I personally didn't get much out of it, but it might be of interest to you.
Besides Yuen Kai San part the book is complete rubbishQuote:
Originally Posted by Marnetmar
What makes you say that?Quote:
Originally Posted by zuti car
We don't talk about the Hung Fa Yi part
Historical data are loosely based im real events and more or less pure fabricationQuote:
Originally Posted by Marnetmar
I made no such assumption about what the OP is looking for, but that's probably right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marnetmar
Depends how much money is someone willing to invest in books. The more the better , in every book can be found at least one piece of valuable information ,also large number of documents from different sources allow comparation and verification of the facts , that is actually how most historians do their research but it can be used for other areas of research as well
The admin deleting my posting on book suggestion , does it means this forum cannot face wck reality? But prefer bias ? Or against me?
and allow Zuti the one who steal information to propagate whatever Zuti like to twist facts?
I'm not sure "[your] book suggestion" and "[facing] reality" belong in the same sentence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hendrik
Hello,
I would agree with Anerlich's suggestions and add the following:
I have found The Wing Chun Compendium, both volumes to be a nice reference and overview of the system.
I also like the 3 book series authored by Chao and Weakland-Secret Techniques of Wing Chun.
Another book I highly recommend although having nothing to do with Wing Chun is Living the Martial Way.
Good books!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sihing73