The Weapons of Wing Chun

Very informative book! Well written and lots of photos! I recommend for anyone who is interested in Wing Chun weapons.

I bought this book hoping to be able to learn the pole form from it, since I haven't been able to go to in-person classes and have been trying to take advantage of quarantine by studying forms at home.The only explanation of the form itself is a series of grainy photos that show the start and end of each section. The individual moves are explained to some extent, but only in the broadest strokes. Sur Lan Gwan for example is only described as "much different to casting out a fishing rod", followed by "please take a look at the following slide", which does not illuminate anything -- you can see that the pole starts here, and ends here, but there's no hint what the connecting path should look like. In addition, the form is at no point explained in terms of the individual movements. It would have been much more helpful to explain the movements first (in detail), and then to describe the form in terms of the sequence of movements.The notes on application and history are interesting; this book might be more useful as a supplemental resource to somebody who has already learned the core material another way.

Read, follow, train from Grandmaster Samuel Kwok and learn Ip Man Wing Chun weapon forms with the aide of clear step-by-step photos and text. One of the best books ever on advanced forms from Wing Chun!

The book came in on time. This book helps a lot.

There are two problems with this book. The first is that as with so many Wing Chun books it is let down by bad photography - or reproduction of - to the extend that I at times used a magnifying glass. To me this problems drags the whole of a book down. The second problem is that a larger book saying more about the weapons - or even such weapons - would have been necessary in order to be satisfying.Of passing interest is that on the back cover Kwok says a few things about the historical development of what constitutes Wing Chun. Pity he does not say more and gives his sources.

So far I'm often disappointed by the books from Samuel Kwok. With no doubt he is one of the better wing chun sifu's around, but limit his sharing of knowledge to show the form and a few applications which can be easily found on the web. I expect more on concepts, the explanation of the 6.5 name, see Benny Meng video on this. Which would provide insight in the form and universally applicable techniques.

Very informative

Ben fatto ma... a quando le traduzioni in italiano! !!!!?! Fortuna ci sono parecchie foto che aiutano rimaniamo in attesa