The Kung Fu School

The centre line concept is fundamental to Wing Chun. Some practitioners differentiate between the mother line which runs like a pole down from middle of the body (from Bai Hui (“hundred meetings”) to Hui Yin (“sea bottom”) and the centre line which runs down the front of the body. The centre line contains many vital points and so “protecting the centre line” is very important. Wing Chun always takes the shortest distance between two points when defending and attacking. The central line which comes from the centre line is the shortest distance between the Wing Chun practitioner man and the opponent. Wing Chun seeks to dominate the centre line through various methods – these either force the attack to approach outside the centre line allowing for the counter attack to take the shortest route to the vital points or trapping the arms coming along the centre line and so stopping the attack in its tracks. The centre line has a philosophical or spiritual aspect too. The Buddhist idea of the “Golden Mean” is put into practice in Wing Chun. To guard the centre line is to be neither too hard nor too soft, to be neither too angry nor too calm. It is to be sufficiently hard and sufficiently soft, sufficiently angry and sufficiently calm. Too be on the extreme of anything is too dangerous.

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