The Wooden
Dummy.

The Wooden Dummy is recognised as the highest skill in Wing Chun. Hence the majority of Wing Chun learners consider that learning the moves of the Wooden Dummy will automatically make them a good Wing Chun fighter. Some even feel very happy with themselves and boast about their own achievements to the junior learners.

The moves of the Wooden Dummy are all good for fighting. However, those moves are actually formed by the basic moves of Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu and Biu Jee. They are not uniquely owned by the Wooden Dummy alone.

In fact, the practice of the Wooden Dummy is taken as an auxiliary measure for the training of the Wing Chun forms. If your purpose is to practise the skill of the three forms, then you should treat the Wooden Dummy as a piece of equipment and try your best to practise the moves and the skill of the three forms on it. You should also try to feel whether your goal has been achieved — for example, trying to concentrate the force of the whole body to a particular point, and inducing the opponent's force for your own use. To induce the opponent's force for your own use is one of the basic structures of Biu Jee, which is the combined effect of the rotation of the body and the formation of the whirlpool effect.

On the other hand, if you treat the Wooden Dummy as your opponent, you should try to concentrate your own force — as well as the skill of inducing the opponent's force — to attack the Wooden Dummy, so as to attain the state where your hands can reach any part of the opponent as your mind wishes.

As I said before, if I were to describe every move of the Wooden Dummy in writing, one would find it difficult to follow, and it may even lead him away from the principal goal in practising it. For this reason I have made up my mind to show you the skill of the forms, as well as the Wooden Dummy, myself — so that you can feel the mysterious and profound skill of Wing Chun Kung Fu.