Wing Chun

The family relationship is also emphasized in the Kung Fu lineage. Similar to a family tree, a Kung Fu lineage traces a "line of transmission" from generation to generation. A traditional Wing Chun system will provide a lineage that traces the history from the current instructor all the way back to Wing Chun's founder, Yim Wing Chun. The Wing Chun Concepts course is based on the very popular Ip Man lineage as taught by two of his senior students, Jiu Wan and Moy Yat. Our dual lineage can be diagramed as follows: Ip Man -> Jiu Wan -> Francis Fong -> WCC Ip Man -> Moy Yat -> "Moy 29"* -> Schuyler Duarte -> WCC Note that even within the Ip Man family of Wing Chun, there are significant differences in the forms, drills, curriculum and progression. In part, this is because Ip Man continued to evolve and optimize his Wing Chun, so students at different times in Ip Man's life may have learned things differently. Ip Man also encouraged students to make Wing Chun their own, and these students often modified techniques and training elements to best express their own vision and understanding. We are very lucky that the Jiu Wan and Moy Yat systems are very well aligned in terms of concepts, principles, forms and training drills. However, individual schools will still vary in terms of both content and curriculum. The course work presented here is intended to represent both lineages inclusively, but note that you will likely see differences as you visit different Wing Chun schools.