This diagram is from an old footwork video that I did, and recently a viewer asked if I could explain this diagram a little bit further. I’ll start with just a general explanation of what’s going on here.

On the floor I have my Wing Chun footwork diagram. This is a general idea of the different directions that you can move out of your a Wing Chun stance, your kim-yee-ma.

Generally what this diagram is for is practicing drills like the closing step and turning.

What’s The Footwork Diagram Used For?

There are so many moving parts to the closing step and what this footwork diagram does is give you reference points for your feet, after you’ve done your closing step and when you’re doing your outfall back to your kim-ye-ma, or when you’ve done your closing step and you’re in your geen-ma, this gives you a reference for your feet.

And that can all be done really with just one single line, the centerline. This probably is the most important line out of this whole diagram.

This line should be dissecting your feet if you’re in your kim-ye-ma stance. The outside angles represent the 60 degrees that your feet should be in. And the middle line is representing your center line and it should be running right down the middle of your stance.

How Do I Make My Own Diagram?

If you want to make one of these diagrams, all you need to do is start with the centerline. And then from there, you can get a protractor app on your phone, if you want to get really specific for your 60 degree angles, but you know that in your head and so you just make your triangle and you know that you gotta be 60 degrees in your feet.

That was a quick explanation of the Wing Chun footwork diagram. Hopefully you found that helpful.

Click on the image below to watch the video of this post.

To learn even more about Wing Chun, you can check out the Wing Chung terminology page here

Take care,

Chuck