• ISBN13: 9781510723177
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sports and Physical Fitness
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publisher Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publication Date: January 1, 2019
• Pages: 272
• Original Price: USD 19.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 567 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Martial Arts / General, History, and Asia / China

Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over four million practitioners. With 48 full-color illustrations, this guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master.

The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than three hundred years. Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art's techniques are presented and performed the way they are. This book, by Wing Chun master Danny Xuan and martial-arts authority John Little, is the first to decipher these techniques that until now have been encrypted within this art.

Xuan and Little reveal how Wing Chun was designed holistically, based on the laws of physics, human nature, and biomechanics. It was also designed with economy, efficiency, and productivity in mind.

Unlike other martial arts, Wing Chun doesn't focus on making a person larger, more rugged, acrobatic or animal-like; rather, it focuses on making optimal use of one's own bodily structure and power potential by applying the sciences of biomechanics and physics. Thus, it is possible for males and females of all ages and sizes to excel in this art. The Table of Contents includes;

• Genesis: The Original of Martial Art
• On the Original of Win Chun
• Wing Chun and The Art of War
• Centerline: The Science of Concentration
• Wing Chun: The Science of the Human Body and the Human Mind
• Building and Preserving Strength
• And much more

John Little is a martial artist who has studied both Wing Chun (under Danny Xuan) and Jeet Kune Do (under Bruce Lee's last private student Ted Wong) and is also an inductee into the American Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He is an award-winning filmmaker ("Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey") and the author of over forty books on subjects ranging from physical fitness and health to martial arts, history and philosophy.
Danny Xuan has been a Wing Chun practitioner for over forty years. He travels internationally to instruct and has been featured in documentaries on the art produced by studios such as Warner Bros. Danny writes an instructional column for Wing Chun Illustrated magazine.