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Advanced Wing Chun

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An in-depth look at wing chun, Advanced Wing Chun is definately a text for those who are interested in this Chinese martial art. Cheung meticulously breaks down the second form of the wing chun system, Chum Kil, and then moves on to cover many chi sao (sticky hands) exercises. Also covered are methods of footwork, and applications of the Chum Kil form in actual combat. This book is fantastic as a textbook for wing chun students, or for those who have a slight background in the martial arts looking to expand their knowledge

As an instructor of William Cheung's art of Traditional Wing Chun, I find this book to be a useful resource tool for all my students. In fact, it is required reading material. Although it is difficult to learn any martial art solely from books and tapes, such tools are indispensable in both documenting the unique qualities of a particular style and providing specific techniques and sequences for training purposes. Advanced Wing Chun presents for the first time in print the Cham Kil, or Chum Kiu, intermediate form as passed down from 5th Generation Grandmaster Leung Jun to William Cheung via Leung Bik and Yip Man. Other useful sections include various single-handed and double-handed Chi Sau techniques and drills as well as sections on this lineage's unique footwork and combat techniques. This book is a MUST for all Wing Chun enthusiasts of any family line!

This is book two in the series by Grandmaster William Cheung. This book clearly demonstrates some of the more advanced techniques in Wing Chun. This book is essential for anyone wishing to deepen thier knowledge of this fascinating art. See also , "How to Develop Chi Power" and "Wing Chun, Bil Jee" also by Grandmaster William Cheung. 5 STARS!!!

If you are a student of TWC (Cheung's Wing Chun) This book is highly recommended. It reinforced what you have learned in Class and provides a handy reference.

I found this book to be very useful. It introduced me to the traditional version of wing chun's chum kiu which is a concise collection of practical fighting moves. William Cheung's excercises comprehensively cover techniques from various arm contact positions. I highly recommend this for wing chun practitioners who have covered siu nim tao and single arm chi-sao.

Worthless book from a worthless person.

I found this in a used bookstore and picked it up. At the time, I had been doing Wing Chun for about a year, but had never heard of William Cheung. I was surprised and a bit confused at the contents of the book because it was very different than the Wing Chun I had been learning. I thought perhaps this Cheung fellow came from a different lineage than myself. (I do Ip Man Wing Chung as taught by his son Ip Ching). Turns out Cheung is an Ip Man student. Why, then, does his WC bear little to no resemblance to the WC as taught by all of Ip Man's other students?

The answer, as it turns out, is that Cheung only learned a small bit of Wing Chun, and made up the rest so he could promote himself as a "great master" in Australia. He fabricated this story about how Ip Man taught him and him alone the "secret version" of Wing Chun.

Cheung is in the same category as other self-proclaimed "masters" like Ashida Kim. He just made up a bunch of stuff, concocted an outrageous story to impress people and make them think he's some kind of special "chosen one".

He's just like Ashida Kim.

Anyway, if you are interested in learning Wing Chun as taught by Ip Man, stay as far away from William Cheung as you can. What he teaches is a system largely invented by himself, and is not, repeat: NOT Wing Chun.

I found this book to be very useful. It introduced me to the traditional version of wing chun's chum kiu which is a concise collection of practical fighting moves. William Cheung's excercises comprehensively cover techniques from various arm contact positions. I highly recommend this for wing chun practitioners who have covered siu nim tao and single arm chi-sao.

Advanced Wing Chun

This is very good book, that describes the second form of wing chun.

The whole Chum Kiu (Kil) form is remarkably well detailed. However the combat applications derived from the form itself are not featured.
A pity siu lim (nim) tao is not described in the book.

I have had this book for many years, and only when I got real instruction did it all make sense.

As far as his form. William Cheung learned them all in the 1950s along with Bruce Lee, Duncan Leung, and many others. If you are fortunate to get an instructor that is from those guys in the 1950s, good for you. Most of those guys that came out in the 1960s were trained by senior students and not Yip Man directly. I wouldn't mind
being trained by some of those seniors, but I don't hear about them much.

Anyway, William Cheung is a fighter that learned wing chun about 50 years ago.
If you want a theoretical reading, I suggest the 'Wing Chun Compendium'. However, I would still prefer to be
taught by GM Cheung than the author of a better book.