Book Suggestions

[A BIONIC LEG]

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?

[zuti car]

Old Leung Ting's book are pretty good if you disregard a shameless selfpromotion

[anerlich]

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.

[Marnetmar]

"Complete Wing Chun" by Rene Ritchie, Robert Chu et al is pretty good, though it was something of a political football in its day.

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.

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.

[zuti car]

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.

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 rubbish

[Marnetmar]

Besides Yuen Kai San part the book is complete rubbish

What makes you say that?

We don't talk about the Hung Fa Yi part

[anerlich]

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.

I made no such assumption about what the OP is looking for, but that's probably right.

[zuti car]

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