What styles of kungfu / martial art are similar to wing chun?

in a technical manner i mean.|||Wing Chun according to traditional histories is based on several Chinese martial arts. Probably a couple good answers would be Southern Mantis I say Southern because Wing Chun is more of a Southern art. Another is Snake and also White Crane. It is said that Snake and Crane are a big influence it's really not well known but all of the above are likely to be mixed into Wing Chun. Wing Chun it's self is a mixed martial art it's not one or the other and neither soft or hard. It does however simplify movements to make it faster and more streamlined. Also teaches not to fight force with force because the strongest person will likely win. I have no real experience in other arts but have seen many demos of rare Chinese arts and would say these are the best matches. Mantis is very similar I can't imagine it not being part of Wing Chun.|||I don't know how anyone would say Jeet Kune Do or say they instruct JKD and not know it isn't even a martial art. JKD is an eclectic approach to martial arts training and concepts. Its core curriculum consists of training in Wing Chun but that doesn't make JKD a system similar to it anymore than claiming studying philosophy at a university makes it a University of Philosophy.



It's no coincidence a lot of the movements are similar to crane, since the mother art to Wing Chun is Ng Mui Southern Crane. Ng Mui was the legendary Buddhist nun who eventually taught Yim Wing Chun, the namesake for the art.



As far as I know theoretically speaking, Filipino martial arts are pretty similar to Wing Chun. Both do use centerline theory, trapping movements and sensitivity often from within mid to close range. Wing Chun assumes a solid posture and structure to merge with an opponent's center and neutralize at close quarters. FMA can work from the outside to close range reference point and takes a heavy approach to that by accounting for weapons.|||Jeet Kune Do is very closely based on Wing Chun in it's close quarters trapping and striking, but with additions brought into it from other styles or arts.


Krav Maga is a self defense system that owes much of it's close quartes defense and offense to Wing Chun, but as with Jeet Kune Do it has additions to it from other styels/ arts.


There are several other Chinese martial arts styles that have a fair number of similarities to Wing Chun, my favorite Chinese style aside from Wing Chun is Mantis style. Very similar to Wing Chun in terms of lots of trapping and a lot of close quartes work, with more outside work than you typically see associated with Wing Chun.


I don't have any personal experience with them, but I have also heard that Silat shares a lot of similarties with Wing Chun and also Kali. Again I have never studied either of these so I am purely going on others opinions in these.


Krav Maga, Jeet Kune Do and Mantis I have personally trained in and I know for sure that they are very similar in how they handle much of their close quartes training.|||Hey there



Wing Chun is a Kung Fu style. I don't know of many styles similar to it, but the hand to hand technique movements in Wing Chun are quite similar to a martial art called Kali, and somewhat similar to Bakmei although not entirely. I'm saying hand movements, strikes etc nothing else.

Even some of the hand techniques in Krav Maga, close quarter range strikes etc are similar to Wing Chun.



Also, to the person who answered above me, saying Jeet Kune Do is a " version of wing chun ". Jeet Kune Do is a philosophy, a way of thinking and moving that any style can be integrated into. It is not a version of anything.

You call yourself a Wing Chun instructor and you don't even know that much ?



Kind regards

eireshane|||Jeet Kune Do is a "style" invented by Bruce Lee who first practiced in Wing Chun. He took Wing Chun's idea of the centerline and incorperated it into the punching of JKD. it also has other forms of Martial Arts that he trained in but only the important parts.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Kune_D鈥?/a>





Heres more information on it|||Wing chun has unique mechanics. It sort of goes against the principles of other Chinese styles.


However, being a southern short range style, it bears some similarities to other southern hand styles. I think white eyebrow and southern mantis have some similarities to wing chun.|||Seven Star Praying Mantis has many of the attributes of Wing Chun|||Jeet kune do is a version of wing chun so that would be the closest in a technical manner|||some movements looks similar to the crane and snake styles