There’s so many martial arts to choose from so what makes Wing Chun one of the best for self defence? Wing Chun is a non flowery martial art which has been designed to be learned quickly. Most people don’t want to spend decades learning a martial art. After all, they may never use it, and hopefully they won’t have to! Wing Chun clearly stands out as a no-nonsense martial art which teaches principles within its training regimen.
Its main principles are minimum movement and economy of motion. What does this mean for practical self defence? In terms of a violent confrontation, most people will freeze. Even if you are trained, that training is not as good when you’re in a fight or flight situation. You will have adrenaline dumped through the body.
So unless your training has helped you react unconsciously (without thought), it is unlikely to help.
This is where Wing Chun training excels.
Wing Chun Best For Self Defence
The best self defence is situational awareness – avoiding problem situations and being observant of your surroundings. Avoiding a situation it is always better than getting involved in a confrontation. If you do, deescalate it, and get away. If that’s not possible you want to be able to deal with it, quickly and escape to safety.
You don’t want a long drawn out confrontation. You don’t want to go to the ground. There there’s potentially other people waiting on the sidelines who may join in.
Wing Chun is designed for such a situation. It helps train your autonomic response to react instantaneously to an attack. Wing Chun uses simultaneous counter attacks and defence which become reflexive due to the contact training techniques.
Wing Chun Best For Self Defence – Simplicity
Some martial arts have multiple moves within a technique. Wing Chun teaches simplicity. A single strike to a vital area of the body. This is much more useful when your body is full of adrenaline than many techniques you’ll never remember when it matters.
Wing Chun is a self defence martial art for a dangerous situation. As such it uses strikes to the vital areas of the body. Knees, eyes, throat, solar plexus. It uses evasion rather than meeting force head on. It’s for small people against big people.
Suitable For Older Adults
Not everyone is super strong and fit, and Wing Chun is a self defence system which can be learned in later years too. Most people don’t want to compete in a cage, risk their health or get injured while training. Wing Chun is a low impact and so can be practiced without injury and very little risk. This makes it more attractive to those who don’t want competitions or potential injuries.
The key to learning useful self defence skills which work for you is to keep training at something which is sustainable.
Wing Chun allows this because it is low risk, there’s no competition and classes are safe. Although we teach potentially dangerous techniques, they are done in a safe environment.
Summary
Most people looking for self defence want something where they can learn some potentially life saving skills which are practical and effective. they don’t want competition, or to risk injury.
When classes are enjoyable, training is much more sustainable.
Wing Chun focuses on its main core principles of economy of motion and minimum movement. There’s no long drawn out techniques in Wing Chun. Its straight line attacks and attacks to vital areas of the body mean you can learn quickly, it’s super practical and with very low risk of injury.
