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There are at least se7en areas where Ving Chun has a positive affect on your mental, emotional or physical well being.
1. Fitness:
I lost weight and lowered my blood pressure by practicing Ving Chun. Naturally, the level of fitness you achieve depends on your motivation and goals. Practitioners must worked out after kung fu class and watched their diet carefully. All of this added together with Ving Chun will lead to amazing results.
2. Relieves Stress:
Getting a good workout, especially a cardio workout helps purge the stress. And it’s good for the heart too. Plus, training Ving Chun forces you to focus on the here and now, not on your problems. Getting rid of stress has really helped me clear my mind and allows me to do better work in my job.
3. Better Reflexes:
In Ving Chun we train both contact (chi sau) reflexes and visual reflexes. This training also improves our muscle memory. Which is when your body makes the right moves on it’s own.
4. Better Coordination:
One of the great things about Ving Chun is that we train both sides of our bodies (left and right). Better still is the fact that Ving Chun, and kung fu in general, trains you to use finer skill to fight. For example, it takes a lot of coordination to attack using a finger jab or simultaneously block, strike and kick at the same time.
5. Improves eye focusing:
When you’re not in contact range you have to rely on visual reflexes (your eyes) to keep you safe and a threat to your opponent.
6. Improves speed and power:
Ving Chun is well known for its speed. And when you train correctly you learn to back up the speed with explosive power. This is good for your overall health because you want to have ”reserves” available in an instant. In other words, you don’t want to be so well tuned that you’re always cruising around at maximum efficiency. You need extra capacity to deal with physical, emotional or mental shocks.
7. Builds Internal Energy and Wellness:
Most people have heard how Tai Chi and its slow forms are good for your health and helps develop internal “Qi” power. There are dozens of medical studies that support this.Well, if you do your Ving Chun forms slowly and deliberately, like Tai Chi forms, you’ll get many of the same benefits.
What’s nice about using Ving Chun empty-handed forms, is you can workout in a small area, like a corner of your bedroom, hotel room if you’re traveling and even in the showers.
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