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Wing Chun's indispensable wooden dummy
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A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN
A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN

A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN

The undated photo shows a wooden dummy used in the training of snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong. /CGTN
The undated photo shows a wooden dummy used in the training of snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong. /CGTN

The undated photo shows a wooden dummy used in the training of snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong. /CGTN

A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN
A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN

A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN

A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN
A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN

A man uses a wooden dummy to practice snake-style Wing Chun in Foshan, south China's Guandong, in this undated photo. /CGTN

Kung-fu practitioners of snake-style Wing Chun generally train using a wooden dummy designed to represent an imaginary opponent. The idea is to encourage them to vary their footwork and angles of attack, and to teach them the direction of the forces they need to avoid.

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