Wing Chun Bil Jee: The Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers [Paperback]

William Cheung (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unique Literary Books of the World | Publication Date: June 1983

William Cheung reveals the original Wing Chun Bil Jee form taught only to him by the late Yip Man. Through the form is central to this book, the Wing Chun system, central-line theory, and techniques demonstrated are offered with hopes of illustrating a scientific approach to the martial arts that is beneficial to both the arts and their practitioners.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Unique Publications (June 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865680450
• ISBN-13: 978-0865680456
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,180,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wing Chun Bil Jee Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers, September 8, 2000

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Thomas Reed (Guymon, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wing Chun Bil Jee: The Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers (Paperback)

Grand Master cheung,Bruce Lees' si hing ( older brother) has written a martial arts masterpiece!Bil Jee the third and most advanced form in Wing Chun and considered by many knowledgable martial artist to be a form of Dim Mak(death touch.)The format of the book was excellent,and the martial arts content was straitfoward and technically superior.I have been a martial practitioner for twenty-six years and know Yip Man the late grandmaster would be proud of his protege.

3.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to Bil Jee form, October 10, 2010

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Suchira Karunarathne - See all my reviews

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Wing Chun Bil Jee: The Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers

A good book as an introduction to Bil Jee form of Wing Chun,
But the form in this book doesn't look like the complete form when compared with Bil Jee form depicted by GM William Cheung in his videos (The dvds of GM William Cheung for Bil Jee)
The form in this book lacks several important sets which are shown in the vidoes published later by GM William Cheung himself.

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT Wing Chun, April 29, 2010

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C. Davis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wing Chun Bil Jee: The Deadly Art of Thrusting Fingers (Paperback)

Short reason why you shouldn't buy this: It's not Wing Chun, it's not Biu (bil) Jee. The author is a fake who made this stuff up himself based on his "extensive" 3 years of training as a teenager.

Longer reason why you shouldn't buy this:

In Wing Chun, there's 6 main phases to the curriculum. Each phase has a form and associated principles and techniques. The 6 phases and basic idea of each are:

1. Siu Lim Tao - basic centerline theory, relaxation, basic hand-techniques.

2. Chum Kiu - footwork, and relative positioning.

3. Biu Jee - "emergency techniques" for when you lose control of the centerline, and generating maximum power.

4. Wooden Dummy - a synthesis of the other 3 forms. Further refining spatial awareness & positioning.

5. Long Pole - applying WC principle with long weapons.

6. Bart Cham Do ("butterfly swords") - edged weapons. Introduces new footwork.

The author of this book took WC for about 3 years as a teenager. His Siu Lim Tao is ok, but if you compare all his other stuff to any of Ip Man's other students (or Ip Man himself) it's totally different. The forms are different, and more importantly the information contained in the forms are totally different.

Cheung says it's because Ip Man taught him and him alone a "secret" version of Wing Chun, because he was SPECIAL. Of course, all of Ip's other students say he's lying, and they issued a formal statement denouncing Cheung as fraudulent and his system as bogus.

On the subject of "Biu Jee":

There's a move in Biu Jee called "biu sau", or "biu jee" (meaning thrusting hand, or thrusting fingers, respectively). This move has NOTHING to do with stabbing "pressure points" with your fingertips. When you're new to Wing Chun & you happen to see advanced students performing this form, you'd probably think they're doing an eye-gouge or something because thats what it looks like...but you'd be wrong. Again, Biu Jee is all about getting yourself out of trouble. The biu sau is used for wedging the bad guy's arms out of the way so you can get back on target, and it's a move used for "bridging". The Biu Jee form also incorporates a wrist-strengthening/flexibility exercise in the same move.

Now, there are finger-strikes in Wing Chun. There's also open-hand strikes, but to say that Biu Jee is for striking pressure points is like saying that pok sau ("slapping hand block") is for slapping pressure points. It's just stupid, and is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect a teenage noob to think.

The fact is, in Wing Chun, there are no "disabling pressure points", Biu Jee has nothing to do with "the deadly art of pokey fingers", and William Cheung is just like Ashida Kim or Frank Dux - a guy with some basic training and ridiculous stories who sells himself as some sort os special "Chosen One".

If you want a good book on advanced Wing Chun, check out Wayne Belonpha's Wing Chun Compendium". If you want magic pokey-finger death-strikes....well....good luck with that.