Are weapons the most important things in Wing Chun?
A. I do not think so. In the first place weapons were added to Wing Chun after the development of the hands. If you are not good with your stances, motions, steps and hands you will not fill in the gaps by learning weapons. The pole adds power when the stances and turns are properly learned. The knives add to the footwork after the fundamentals are fully absorbed. In gung fu you can tell when someones foundation work is poor though they can go through the externals of many forms and styles. Q. Are there other unique elements in your Wing Chun teaching forms? A. Again, yes there are applications that I put into the appropriate places in the curriculum. I put the double punch drill back into the first form, because I think it is important for balance and two handed motions. Often in the old days the dummy motions would be shown initially only on one side. You learned the rest in application drills. So I made sure that in an organized curriculum for our times that students learn the balan
