From Robert Chu:
It is true that some quite famous wing chun people have suffered quite early death or dibilitating disease. Is wing chun bad for your health? If so then is there a way to ameliorate this tendency?
The theory of Chinese medicine says that the Chi must flow normally - so if the Chi doesn't flow, it's impeded. The liver governs the chi flow through the body. We often see cases of liver Chi stagnation - when the body is very rigid and a practitioner is wrongly just using the shoulders to issue force. There becomes a lot of stagnation in the shoulder area, and the Gall Bladder 21 point has a tendency to be rigid, along with the other gall bladder points in the area. People also practice incorrectly when they tend to be very rigid in their stances - their knees are locked, and their feet are internally rotated 45 degrees, and the person is sitting in a stiff, locked stance. That method of training causes stagnation of Chi and blood. The theory of Chinese medicine, is that that method is not very healthy - the Chi must always move - if the Chi doesn't move, it gets stagnated. If it gets stagnated, then it can cause the Liver Yang Chi to rise. You see a lot of incidents in Wing Chun where people have the syndrome of Liver Yang Chi rising. You see signs and symptoms such as red eyes, bad temper, red face, a person feels very uncomfortable or irritable, they have a tendency to shout, and have an aggressive attitude and so on.
It is true that some quite famous wing chun people have suffered quite early death or dibilitating disease. Is wing chun bad for your health? If so then is there a way to ameliorate this tendency?