After the summer semester ends,it'll be difficult to keep up practices without training partners to work with. If you're able to find a wing chun club to practice with back home, that will be great. Don't worry so much about thelineage, although if you want to carry on practicing similar forms you should look for Traditional Wing Chun or Red Boat Wing Chun. Exposing yourself to other lineages gives you a more comprehensive picture about Wing Chun, so always keep an open mind.

But in the event that you can't find any club or any one to practice with, these are some of the things that you can practiceby yourself.

1) Forms: Siu Lim Tau, Chum Kiu, Biu Jee, Wooden Dummy
- You can alter the speed at which you do the forms. Generally it helps to develop Qi if you practice the Siu Lim Tau very slowly.

2) Neutral Stance and Chain Punches
- You can do chain punches in sets of three, or in the usual, 1, 12, 123, 1234, 12345 which we do for warm ups.

3) Hand techniques like Pak Sau + Punch, Tan Sau + Punch, Tan Sau + Palm strike, Biu Sau + Punch, Biu Sau + Palm strike, Bong Sau & Lop Fut, Lop Sau + Punch etc.

3) Forward step plus hand techniques

4) Switch side neutral plus hand techniques

5) T-step plus hand techniques and kicks

6) Entries, Entries + opening the stance and kicking with the back leg

7) The 5 Elbows: Up, Down, Turning Back, Forward, Back

8) Kicks: Single kicks and two level kicks. Make sure that your feet returns to the forward stance. Make sure you are well balanced throughout the motion, and always keep your guard up. Also, look at the spot where you're kicking.


That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'll add more later.

- Andy -