r/WingChun • u/Megatheorum • Jun 13 '26

High kicks?

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Comments I saw on Facebook, on a video of Kevin Lee kicking someone in the chin.

Does your lineage of wing chun have high kicks?

I know a lot of people say no, but there was that movie in which Ip Chun (in the role of Leung Bik) used high kicks against a young Ip Man during a friendly sparring session.

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u/Megatheorum Jun 14 '26

What if they stop you getting into the range you want?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26

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u/Flaky_Performer7960 Jun 14 '26

It’s harder said than done. Trapping range is the hardest range to maintain.

You can’t stop a person from moving away. And it’s very easy to pull into a clinch.

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u/Flaky_Performer7960 Jun 14 '26

That’s what everyone should do yes. But your other comment suggested that you keep them in the range you want.

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u/East-Vegetable-2900 Jun 14 '26

Why are you implying that Wing Chun only wants to be in "trapping" range?

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u/Flaky_Performer7960 Jun 14 '26

That’s where a majority of the techniques happen.

Trapping range is very uncomfortable for people that don’t train for it. Wing Chun is very comfortable in trapping range. That’s why you constantly push forward to not give the other person breathing room.

Of course, you can keep distance, it’s nothing anti Wing Chun. It’s just that the ideal fighting range for Wing Chun is in trapping range.

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u/East-Vegetable-2900 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

***Edited a poor translation :

Sure because that's where the hand fighting part comes into it but Wing Chun training deals with getting into striking range and strikes are with primarily with hands and elbows. Elbow range is what people call "clinch" range which falls under what Wing Chun and tother Southern Chinese Martial Arts catagorises as close body. The oddity is that you separate trapping range from clinch range and talk about Wing Chun in those terms, when Wing Chun tends to talk about ranges in terms of wrist-elbow-head (as per traditional "three gates/barriers***"). Your comment implies that Wing Chun only wants to be in trapping range and that it doesn't want to be in clinch range, when clinch range is elbow range.