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Origins of Wing Tzun |
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 Wing Tzun ("WT") originated some 400 years ago, founded by a Chinese nun named Ng Mui and her first student, Yim Wing Tzun . Ng Mui was one of the few people to escape the sacking of Shaolin by the Chinese troops, when they burned the monestary to the ground. She and a few of the monks managed to seek refuge in Central China.
Ng Mui was an instructor of mui fa chuan or 'plum flower fist'. In the village where she settled down, Ng Mui met Yim Wing Tzun as a young girl and taught her the system. But Yim Wing Tzun thought that the plum flower fist was too complex and placed too much reliance on power techniques and strong horse stances, befitting a man rather than a woman. She wanted something that was not complicated yet efficient as a means of defending herself. Not finding it among existing styles, she created her own.
Yim Wing Tzun's husband named the style WING TZUN to honor his wife and her teacher Ng Mui. Wing Tzun means 'beautiful springtime'. Thanks to their highly developed martial art techniques, these two women could win fights against the strongest men of their time.
 Since then, WT had been taught only within Chinese families and clans. The late GREAT GRANDMASTER YIP MAN was the last WT teacher who taught Chinese students exclusively. The WT art form was first introduced to the Western world when GGM Yip Man left the Chinese Mainland during the communist takeover to live in Hong Kong.
 As a direct student from GGM Yip Man, the late Bruce Lee added to the popularity of WT and it became one of the best known styles, because Lee looked to WT to form the nucleus of his own style, the Jeet Kune-Do. What appealed to Lee about WT was that compared with many of the other Chinese arts, it had already been stripped of many inefficient movements.
After GGM Yip Man passed away his students could not decide who the next Grandmaster of Wing Chun would be. Therefore they "split" and created their own families. As a result of this split, we have many different spellings of the Wing Chun style today.
Only very few students of GGM Yip Man were able to bring the Wing Chun system to the next level. Most WC-lineages teach a very, very light version of the complete WC-system due to the lack of skills, knowledge, understanding, training and passion. Unfortunately, many of their students find out later (many times too late) that they have spent their time, effort and money in the wrong place.
As agreed (after demonstrations and workouts) by many practitioners of different Wing Tzun lineages (including Sifu's), the EBMAS Wing Tzun is the most complete Wing Tzun system available. We teach every student the complete system including footwork, drills, Chi Sao, Dan Chi Sao, the Dummy techniques and the weapons according to our teaching program.
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