116 Wing Tsun Dummy Techniques as Demonstrated by Grandmaster Yip Man

This is an amazing book for any beginner of Wing Chun, and I say this being a beginner myself. The format of the book first shows the pictures of the techniques as demonstrated by Master Yip Man on the Dummy, then shows all of the same techniques in pictures as demonstrated by his son Yip Chun against another person. So you get to see how to practice the techniques on the Dummy, and then the practical application of the techniques against a person.This book is mostly pictures, which I find extremely helpful for beginning any martial arts technique on your own. Of course this book will not allow you to become a master of Wing Chun in itself, but for practicing this is a great alternative to begin learning the muscle movements and motions. The book also includes information on building the Dummy, and history of Wing Chun and Master Yip Man. This helps to really round-out the book and I feel makes it a must-have for any Wing Chun/Kung Fu enthusiast!

This book is golden it helps you out a lot as far as understanding the moves and how to use them if you ever get a chance to watch the movie warriors 2 you will see what i'm talking about so good luck, and by the way the book is awsome.

Yes: this is the book for Wooden Dummy Technique. As the 108 movement that GM IpChun wrote in the past, this IS the book to remember the sequence. GM Leung Ting in first part of this book explain why and how. In central part all sequence is good photographed and titled. The last part (application) ,for me, would have been better dealt with more thoroughly, but maybe in the future there will be a book that will explain in detail the sequences of chisao (so Is what I hope!)

I long for the original , which I had and practiced since age twenty . But it's no longer in print .Was quite happy to find a form that's so close .

Great book! Awesome to have the reference to go alongside with my training under my sifu!

Great book for any practitioner of Wing Chun. I used this book as a reference guide when I first purchased my wooden man. Iit does what it was intended to do very well.

The book is in great shape, and fully intact.

If you've never done Wing Chun before & would like to get a dummy & learn the dummy form, this book is probably a waste of your time. The first half of it is mostly just still-frames taken from a film of Ip Man doing his dummy form. This film was never intended for people to "teach themselves". Rather, the film was taken as a reference for people who've already had training in Wing Chun. The film was also made so that students could tell whether or not a given instructor was really teaching Ip Man's Wing Chun, so they could discern real Wing Chun instructors apart from the liars, fakes, and the blatantly unqualified. So don't get this book with the intention of using it to teach yourself the Wing Chun dummy set from the ground up - Wing Chun is a lot like law: "The man who represents himself has a fool for a client", and "The man who trains himself kung fu has a fool for a sifu". For instance, you might be able to learn the sequence of positions, but this book will leave you clueless as to how to move from one position to the next. It tells you nothing about how fast you should & shouldn't move, or how to deliver force, for example.That being said, the 2nd half of the book is examples of application of each movement in the dummy set. If you already train in WC, there's a good chance you'll see one or two things in this section that'll surprise you. The rest you'll probably already know, but reinforcement never hurt anyone.So if you already do Wing Chun, this book is a must-have, & completely lives up to its intended purpose. Use it as a handy reference while learning the form. And check the form in this book against what you're being taught at your school - if there's a few minor differences, that's no big deal (for instance, I do Ip Ching Wing Chun, & Ching has changed a couple little things - like replacing a tan sau with a lop sau in one of the movements). Little changes here-and-there are no big deal, but if your Ip Man lineage Wing Chun school's dummy set is radically different than this, you can be sure that whatever they're teaching didn't come from Ip Man - they changed it, or never knew it in the first place & made a bunch of stuff up.Also, if you come from a Wing Chun lineage other than Ip Man, you'll find this book interesting. It's always neat to see how other traditions do things (at least I think it is).That's about it: Highly recommended for any WC practitioner at any level.For non-WC practitioners, there's no substitution for real, hands-on instruction, but if you must learn from a book or video there are more useful introductory books & videos out there. For videos, start with Wong Shun Leung's "The Science of In-Fighting". For books, look no further than Wayne Belonoha's "Wing Chun Compendium".

An excellent book

Offert à un ami.Ce livre est bien illustré et donne des indications pour se fabriquer son "tronc" d'entraînement.Il est une référence et se trouve difficilement ou à prix déraisonnable.

libro completo fornito di tutte le foto e spiegazioni e cenni storici. molto utile per supportare la pratica di wing chun

This is an excellent book explaining the applications and movements/positioning involved in the dummy form. It is not a replacement for a good sifu but would greatly improve your understanding of the form and enable you to practice it with confidence knowing why are you doing what are you doing and why the movements are sequenced in such a way. The Photos are clear and the written description is easily understood. A great addition to any serious Wing Tsun practitioners library.

１１６の型と用法（すごく少々）の写真が載っています。木人椿の使い方だけは理解できますが、あとは英語なので細かいことは解りません。