How to learn Wing Chun - The ultimate guide

Are you wondering how to learn Wing Chun Kung Fu and you don't know which is a good point to start?
Don't panic!

We have some good tips for you that will help you in your learning process.

Search for a good teacher

Seems obvious but having a good teacher will be the first step in order to introduce yourself in a martial art that potentially will take your time for few years but, actually, how can you recognize a good teacher from a bad one?

Every teacher praises himself to be a good teacher and recognizing a scammer sometimes it's not so easy as it may seem. Below we point some bullets that can be usefull when you are searching for a Wing Chun, or generally martial art, teacher:

Where did he learn his skills?

The basics are the most important part of Wing Chun training and not all lineages and schools have the same training program. Knowing how your potential future teacher has learned the art, who is his teacher and for how many years he trained himself in that environment can make a real difference when we are choosing where is better to start our training.

For how many years has he been teaching?

Teaching experience is never too much when we talk about teaching kung fu to others therefore don't hesitate to ask him when he started his own school and the reasons that brought him to become a teacher.

How do students approach him?

After visiting many schools you can meet some egocentric master that requests his students to call him "master", "sifu" or with some other appellative. Remember that a good teacher is not the one who asks you to be respectfull with him in some "traditional way" but the one who, with some hard work, helps you to learn Kung Fu.

Can I learn online?

Learning a martial art online, as for many others skills, can be very challenging, frustrating and not as simple as you can imagine. On the other hand many people have to face up with the fact that in some areas there are no Wing Chun teachers available. So, what is better to do in situations like this?
It's a really hard question: traditional approach wants you to travel to a place when you can learn from a Master but technology can help a lot, especially in solo training when the presence of a partner is not strictly required.
Our advice is to combine this two approaches in a sort of hybrid combination: learn as much as possible in solo training with a good guide online and when you are ready to travel find a good teacher and start to train in a gym with skilled partners.

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