The 108 Form

Here is one version of the Wing Chun Little Idea form. The form can be trained very slowly or very quickly depending on what you are training. The same can be said for the Wing Chun sticking hands-training.

Wing Chun training starts with learning the 108 movement form called the “Little Idea Form.” A lot of the Wing Chun literature and You Tube videos use the Cantonese name for this form so if you are searching the web then type in “Siu Nim Tao” or “Siu Lim Tao.”

Above is one of my versions of the form. We were asked to do the form in less than a minute for as Chinese New Year show so I was practicing a quicker version. The slow version of the form can take 30 minutes to do and nobody likes to watch that. Totally boring. Wing Chun is not an art for nice looking forms. My form characteristics has changed over the years. This is my version at age 74.

Below is Master Wong Shun Leung’s version of the form. Master Wong Shun Leung was mostly Bruce Lee’s teacher. There is also a version of the form done when Ip Man was old and already quite ill so it is slightly different from what he taught Wong Shun Leung but both are good to look at.

Here is Ip Man performing the first 108 movement form.

Here is Master Chan Chiu performing the first 108 movement form. Master Chan Chiu was the first Holland students of my teacher’s teacher Master Wang Kiu.