Wing Chun is a traditional Southern Chinese martial art geared towards survival, an advanced and effective method of self defense. There is a balanced focus on both internal and external development bringing the best from these two, often distinct, ends of the martial arts spectrum. Its strategies and principles are both fundamentally sound and achievable. The style is based on the natural motions of the human body, drawing upon physiology. Promoting the use of natural structure and movements to defend against stronger opponents. Wing Chun emphasizes economy of motion, aggressive tactics, direct/efficient movement and realistic training. It has been taught and integrated into the training programs of hundreds of military & law enforcement agencies around the world such as the US Navy Seals, FBI, and CIA. Wing Chun movements are even practiced in the National Football League allowing its practitioners to control others on the field.

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The oral history of Wing Chun dates its creation to the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1662–1722) in the Qing dynasty. After escaping the destruction of the Fujian Shaolin Monastery by Qing forces, the Abbess Ng Mui fled to the distant Daliang mountains on the border between Yunnan and Sichuan. One day, she came upon a fight between a snake and a crane (or other animal). She took the lessons she learned from observing the fight between the two animals and combined them with her own knowledge of Shaolin kung fu to create a new style.

Ng Mui often bought her bean curd at the tofu shop of Yim Yee (嚴二). Yim Yee

had a daughter named Yim Wing Chun (嚴詠春) whom a local warlord was trying

to force into marriage. Ng Mui taught her new fighting style to Yim Wing Chun,

who used it to fend off the warlord once and for all. Yim Wing Chun eventually

married a man she loved, Leung Bok-Chao (梁博儔), to whom she taught the

fighting techniques that Ng Mui had passed on to her. Husband and wife, in turn,

passed the new style on to others. It has been said that the style was developed

for fighting on narrow boats, hence the stance being similar to stand up

paddleboard riders, the lack of footwork, and linear attack of a single target

directly in front of you.

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Wing Chun is a continually evolving martial art and Franco Lung Wing Chun proves this. 

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