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At Wing Tsun Martial Arts, we believe what we teach goes far beyond techniques—it’s about helping people build confidence, focus, and strength in every area of their lives. In today’s world, both adults and children face constant challenges, distractions, and pressures, and we feel a deep responsibility to give them something meaningful that helps them grow.
For adults, this training becomes a way to develop confidence, regain focus, and build the discipline and drive needed to create a better life. It also provides something many people are missing—a supportive community where individuals can grow, be challenged, and surround themselves with positivity. Through Wing Tsun and Tai Chi, adults learn not only how to protect themselves, but how to carry themselves with calm, control, and confidence.
For kids, what we do is about shaping their future. We help them develop focus, discipline, and real confidence while teaching them how to overcome challenges and believe in themselves. These are lessons that stay with them for life and help them grow into strong, capable individuals who can positively impact their families, their communities, and the world around them.
We do this because we believe that when people grow stronger, everything around them improves. Strong individuals build strong families, and strong families create strong communities. Wing Tsun is more than self-defense—it’s a path to becoming a better, more confident, and more capable version of yourself, and that is something we are proud to share with our community.
Wing Tsun (also spelled Wing Chun) is a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense known for its emphasis on using an opponent’s force against them, rather than directly opposing it. Through techniques such as strikes, kicks, grappling, and controlled close-quarters combat, Wing Tsun practitioners learn the skills need to defend themselves and those around them.
To really be able to defend yourself means that you should never expect your attacker to hold back, and also that you should be able to (temporarily) incapacitate him effectively. Strength or agility should not be decisive factors in a self defense situation; very often it is non-athletes and women who may be subjected to physical abuse and threats.
WingTsun Kung Fu has the unique distinction of being a martial art that anyone can master regardless of physical strength, speed or endurance. Most martial arts depend on fighters possessing certain physical attributes, such as strength, speed and endurance, for their effectiveness. Take, for example, boxing. There is a reason there are weight divisions, pairing fighters of similar size or weight. A heavy-weight-class boxer will always outclass the feather-weight-class boxer within the rules of boxing.
Regulated sports are entirely different from self-defence situations where there can be no expectation of fairness or adherence to rules. A WingTsun fighter is trained to expect anything: from kicks to the groin, to strikes to the eyes, to grappling, kicking and so forth. With sufficient training in WingTsun Kung Fu, students can compensate for, if not overcome those factors that may be in favor of the opponent, such as strength, speed, and endurance.
Any person who does not have significant physical disabilities can acquire a feeling for instinctive reactions through regular WT-training. And the newly acquired self-confidence and physical experience that come from even a short period of intensive training lead WingTsun Kung Fu students to become more relaxed after a short time. The WingTsun teaching methodology gives students regular feedback on their level of progress. Through the nature of WT training and also the recognition of your own skill level increasing and thus your ability to defend yourself from an aggressor, comes an inner peace.
Although the best defense is to walk away from trouble, you may not always have the opportunity of avoiding physical attacks. If you cannot walk away or stare your opponent down, then you need the ability to face the attacker aggressively, neither leaving him time nor space to organize his attack. You need to be able to put the attacker on the defense.
WingTsun™-fighters use even the smallest weakness of an attack to gain control of the opponent by initiating multiple attacks on sensitive areas. The feeling for the right moment to act, to react, to move with the opponent’s greater force and also to attack determinedly are really the core of WingTsun Kung Fu training which leads to increased self-confidence.
All this and more is offered at WingTsun Martial Arts in Glenview, a school that teaches an authentic martial art which has never lost sight of its original intention: realistic self-defense against a non-compliant opponent.
