Very well written text on Wing Chun. Fully illustrated first form, demonstrations of all basic techniques.

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Product Description

The first form of wing chun, sil lum tao, is demonstrated with over 100 photographs. James Lee studied sil lum and wing chun before training with Bruce Lee in jeet kune do.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138559 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 223 pages

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Customer Reviews

hands down, the best intro ever
Normally I am prety skeptical about martial arts books until I find out about the person who wrote them...you know, remarks people have about their school/teaching method, what wing chun family they come from, who their teacher was...but here there is no need to worry, James Lee trained with none other than Bruce Lee, who himself learned from wing chun's last undisputed grandmaster Yip Man. This book is extremely well-written with a thorough examination of all angles of attack, as well as a great photo section that shows the first form movement by movement. Not only that but James always has participants in the photo with him where they will do a karate type attack/defense while he does the wing chun version. To put it simply, you can't go wrong here.

goody theory, poor applications
I feel this book is written with passion, but also with little practice of the art or at least no quality in it: theory is correct, but the photos shown here show little resemblance with the text:stances are pure fancy (look at the yee jee kim jeung mah), footwork is totally wrong and there's no mention of hip's use in it, and please, look at the chun choi at the end of Siu Nium Tao! If you're looking for a theory handbook, you can consider to buy it, but wing chun, in reality, is another thing.

If you only have one, make it this one
This is a great book. I have several Wing Chun books, and this is the only one that really shows in depth the first form. Other books are hard to follow, with scant instructions in comparison. You won't find a lot of background/philosophy in this book, but you will find real knowledge of the system that you won't find in the other books I've run across. Worth five times what they are asking-buy this book, read it and you will understand a lot of what the other books are omitting.