The Final Blow to Mainstream Wing Chun’s Centerline Theory: A Scientific and Kinesiological Debunk

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This short post delivers the final blow to the artificial centerline theory in mainstream Wing Chun, proving it to be pseudoscientific.

If the centerline theory is a valid and scientific teaching, shouldn’t it be applied consistently across the entire body?

So here’s the critical question:
Why are your arms jammed into the center, but your kicks don’t come from the centerline?

Look at Chum Kiu or the Wooden Dummy forms—kicks are launched from natural leg positions, not from the middle of the body. Why? Because bringing the feet to the centerline before kicking would destroy balance, reduce power, and make you clumsy and ineffective.

So why apply this faulty logic to the arms?

Your legs aren’t disjointed because they’re not being forced into unnatural central positions. Your arms, on the other hand, become disjointed because the artificial centerline theory demands they be jammed toward the sternum—disconnecting them from your torso, hips, and natural kinetic chains.

If you tried the same thing with your legs—forcing your knees or feet inward toward your lower centerline—you’d create the same biomechanical dysfunction: weak structure, unstable base, and reduced coordination. That’s proof enough: artificial centering is the root cause of disjointedness.

So why isn’t this flawed logic questioned more often?

Because tradition got mistaken for truth.

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