MUI FA JONG, ALSO NAMED MUI FA KUEN, CAN BE TRANSLATED APTLY AS “PLUM FLOWER POSTS”, AND REPRESENTS A GROUP OF FOOTWORK PATTERNS USED AS A BASIS TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN WING CHUN SKILLS.
The name comes from the configuration of the posts, which, when viewed from above, resembles a plum flower—in actual fact, it resembles the plum blossom with five petals “Meyhua”, or “Mui Fa” in Cantonese.
The Mui Fa Jong is considered to be one of the oldest training tools and is practised in many different styles of Gung Fu, however, their configuration and usage are often completely different from the original interpretation, movements and concepts that are commonly seen within the Wing Chun system.