We wuz talking about martial arts on IRC and here are some link to explain importants and really interesting aspects of wing chun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TcJMZpWqyA
little explaination of a few principles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePHd...eature=related (3 parts)
a little more scientific explanation of the principle of relaxation / internal martial art part (structure/relaxation/breathing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshCVQl3Gf4
breathing (It's the same principle of breathing in Tai chi)

http://www.youtube.com/user/138mws/videos?view=0
and this channel is kewl, a lot of vidz but it's more focused on the fighting part and external part of the WC
but this Master Wong guy explains well, and he's funneh !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0q-b...feature=g-vrec
Cool vid explaining how and why it works again really strong people as well.

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A little explanation so people who watch this ain't lost about what they're watching ;3

Wing Chun is an approximatively 400 years old martial art which has been made/synthesize by a woman and a few other martial arts masters. They picked different principles from different ancient chinese martial arts to make an effective and "effortless" MA system to denfend themselves during the manchou invasion (by the japs). (I'm no history specialist tho ;p)

It's a compromise between internal Martial Art (breathing/relaxing/sharpen mind etc...) with a lot of daily basic form practicing, and external martial arts using physics and logical body mechanics to make it straight and effective.

A lot of people considere it like a self-defense system, but it's actually a good Qi Gong exercice for your health and mind too. It's not a martial-art designed for sport since you can learn some throat/eye jabs, crotch kicks, knee breaking kicks etc...

I probably miss a lot of things since I haven't even started courses yet ! so you can look by yourself if your interested ;p