Looking for some Wing Chun Dummy exercises to practice at home? Before I even learned the Wing Chun dummy form, I had a dummy in my bedroom. Me and a friend were massively into the martial arts and we asked a local wood worker to make us a dummy body. We were also friends with a wood turner who had stored a lathe for turning wood in our garage! So I went to work on finding a leg and turning the arms using his lathe and other tools!
Here’s the dummy in the video below however the original arms have been replaced by some more professional ones than I made! Mine were less than professional!
The first exercises I used on the dummy were simply lap and pak type movements. If you’ve done any Wing Chun at all in a class setting, you can simply take out the drills and attempt to use the dummy to replicate them.
I first used pak sau drill, stepping in with a pak and a punch to hit the dummy. Here’s another drill taken out of lap sau exercise which you can use to help with your speed and elbow position.
If you’ve done the dummy form, you can of course practice the form and take elements out of it to drill too. Here’s a video of the dummy form which you can use to learn it. You’ll also find several dummy form videos on YouTube too! If you already know the form, take some small elements out of it to drill and get more understanding from. Here’s an example:
Wing Chun Dummy Exercises – What You Can Learn
You can learn a lot from drilling each individual element of the dummy form. And then you can freestyle it a little too if you wish. Ideally find a qualified instructor to help you learn the form properly and then drill each part thoroughly.
Here’s a video of the dummy form from over the shoulder view:
Here’s a video of “Mojong”, or “no-dummy”. Dummy form without the dummy.
If you’re lucky enough to have a Wing Chun school nearly you with a quality teacher and lineage, you can learn the dummy form usually after a few years of dedicated training. Usually you’ll learn the first form (Siu Lim Tao) first which teaches you the basic principles of the Wing Chun system. See this article on Siu Lim Tao detail and Wing Chun first form step by step. You can also sign up on this website for the free video series which will walk you through a daily video of the form broken into parts.
After the first form you’ll usually learn Chum Kiu (Second form) which involves turns and steps. Then you’ll progress to Biu Gee or the dummy form will start there. I didn’t start learning the dummy form until well into my training for a number of years.
