The Tao of Wing Chun: The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art

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Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over 4 million practitioners. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than 300 years. The Tao of Wing Chun provides a readable, authoritative means of cultivating personal protection skills, enhanced flexibility, improved coordination, greater stamina, physical and mental fitness, while simultaneously cultivating humility, focus, determination, self-confidence, character, camaraderie and deep inner strength. Foremost, this book offers the reader the means by which to apply Wing Chun principles in daily life. Featuring beautiful high definition color photographs from locales as exotic as China's revered Shaolin Temple in addition to precise step-by-step photos of the Siu Nim Tao form and key exercises and self-defense techniques from the art, The Tao of Wing Chun will fascinate, educate, and entertain a wide range of readers-from beginner to Master.

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.