Originally Posted by
LoneTiger108
After seeing that there are many Sifu that contrubute to this forum I was wondering if anybody would like to share their thoughts on the language used to teach Wing Chun.
Is it a 'secret' coded tongue? Is knowledge only ever 'verbally' passed down? Do you use scrict 'codes of conduct' and set, structured curriculums?
Whatever the terminology, method, theory or maxim this thread is created for you to discuss all the countless variations of teaching Wing Chun...
My thoughts only. I think the language is important to reveal some inoformation. Tan for example means something and someone chose that name over other names. But what we don't see a lot of in wing chun that is found in other arts is hidden names and meanings. Other arts use fanciful names to describe various aspects of their arts. One exception was Pan Nam, he had interesting names for every thing. But wing chun typically doesn't seem to have this at its core.
I find many hands don't even seem to have proper names. Perhaps they were lost, perhaps they arn't important, perhaps they are just variations on other hands. I don't know. But it seems we have a core set of terminology that we are interested in, then we have other stuff. But there doesn't seem to be a secret tounge or langauge.
The closest I would say we get is the Kuen Kuits. But I think even those are pretty straight forward. They are not too secret in their meaning if you see them. A few are abstract and difficult to understand, but then again every domain has such complex knowledge, which usually isn't secret.
Just my thought on the topic
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