Sparring

There is no sparring in Wing Chun, instead we practice 'one attack-one defend' training. One of the main reasons for this is that there is no safe way of sparring!

Wing Chun relies on precise hand positions, and so boxing gloves and body protection would hinder this, it is also very close-in and fast. In a fighting situation, you step into your opponent quickly, and throw lightning punches.

-"There's no way to do this safely".

- the pursuit of sparring for trophies, whilst may assist in celebrating the mastery of a few techniques, has little to do with either combat or Chinese martial arts. If tournament sparring assisted in mastery of combat every special forces unit in the world would do it as a facet of training. To date, no elite unit in the world uses those parameters as useful measures.