Circle: Chun II

The Circle Fighting is one part of the Wing Chun curriculum, which is called Dar Wai. It means a group of training partners surrounding one person in a circle or semi circle, to attack him with different techniques from other styles. The center person can only use Wing Chun techniques to defend himself and counter the attacks. However, he must restrain his attacking hands and legs and not hit his opponent. This is to make sure he doesn't hurt his training partners.

Most people consider learning Wing Chun is just simply completed by training the 3 forms, sticky hands and the dummy form, but actually there"s more to the curriculum than that. The Wooden Dummy ( just the form ) will not hit back nor attack you with different combinations of techniques. So in Circle Fighting the training partners will attack with different combinations of non-Wing Chun techniques; either with punch and kick, or kick and punch, such as Karate, Hung Gar, Boxing, etc. We call this, Saang Jong Sau. (A live person, attacking in hypothetical combinations; really attacking the person in the center)

By training in this manner the student thoroughly gains insight into the actual application of the Wing Chun techniques, and earns the feeling and reflex. Also this helps students to build up a good habit to respond to some attacks without thinking.

In martial arts, No technique is the best technique. That means you don"t think what technique to use against what technique. By the time you think, even for a split second, it is too late to respond. Commonly, students become confused and hesitate, especially during a fight because they haven't trained to respond to an attack by reflex. It's like riding a bicycle. You don't have to think about when to brake, peddle, balance or turn. You just do it, like second nature. This is the kind of feeling you need; to respond to some attack without thinking about what to do. When you need it, it comes out like instinct or second nature.

The daily Circle Fighting gets the student accustomed to some attacks and builds up a good habit to cover with defense and offense simultaneously in the manner and design of Wing Chun. Students fully experience, and build up muscle memory like they born with that. They are so used to getting attacked everyday, that there is no big deal of an attack by a kick or a punch.

A lot of practitioners consider they know it, but actually they cannot do it. Others consider they have the techniques and can do it, but not in a proper way in that split of a second, because they have had only trained sticky hands. They can only deal with Wing Chun attacks, any thing other than Wing Chun will be too strange, and they won"t reponsd correctly. That"s why we have to apply the Circle Fighting.

Please keep in mind it might happen; nobody will do Wing Chun techniques or sticky hands with you in the streets. In the video, you can see, nice and clearly, the person in the center doing Wing Chun techniques, such as, Tan Sau, Bong Sau, Gum Sau, Bong Gerk, Kwan Sau,Lap Dar, Pak Dar, etc.to refine and earn the total understanding of APPLIED Wing Chun.

This is part of the Wing Chun Kung Fu curriculum as taught by SiFu Allan C.K. Lee, a private disciple of the Late Grandmaster, SiFu Yip Man.

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[DonMega187]

@stardust005 it's a practise method. they're not supposed to be throwing full power punch, of you'd see many injured people and no student would come to your classes the next day. nobody tried to put a real street fight video here, if you want to see one go look elsewhere. you can never simulate a street fight no matter how hard you try, because much of it has to do with stress or fear

[osiris1503]

this is not the traditional wing chun?

[2bueno4u]

@dhorse7 and its not a straight its actually an arrow punch learn first talk crap later >.>

[2bueno4u]

@dhorse7 dont disrespect any of these men these men work hard and for very long periods i would know! he may need practice but he is worth putting up on youtube he put it up on youtube to show u how circle is actually done plz dont tell him whats right to whats wrong he is the teacher he know his best!

[thejijjic]

praaactice practice practice

[vinni906]

to other wing chunners bashing this method , you should better keep quit their teacher duncan leung was probably the baddest man yip man ever produced , these students fare the most succesful in matches against thaiboxers , kickboxers ect so don't critice them on what you see , i promise you they would put to shame a lot of traditional wing chun guys , these quys take their wing chun all the way and own their competion not to put down the rest . But dont judge a video

[stardust005]

Those are the most sad techniques i've ever seen, from the attackers. Haymakers and slow telegraphed punches and kicks are not what you'd encounter on the street...

[lordtains]

Thats a awesome excercise. I hope I get that too when I start training in Wing Chun

[kiddl3]

Lol. This guy probably forgot more about Wing Chun that you'll ever learn.

[dhorse7]

sifu lee, i know you know your shit. but this guy was not worth posting on your site. he didn't even throw a wing chun straight punch. get him onto punches and SLT