Ill try and find the rule against wing chun punches again. I might of lost myself when I was talking about the muscle memory, misses some stuff.

Yes boxing does teach how muscle memory, on how to jab and such. Wing Chun is different in the fact that it teaches what muscle wise how to attack once you defend. Like boxing, you block a shot, and your muscle memory training doesnt go beyond that, exception of maybe mit training. But sticking hands is about getting as close to your opponent as possible so you can always touch him and from that point keep pushing forward, non stop, the use of analysing the situation is obsolete because by feeling you opponent you can defend and attack him. That is why some very well trained Wing Chun masters can do sticking hands blind folded, trained himself to recognize how to attack and defend based on feeling his opponent. Throwing thousands of punches a day is also a thing wing chun people do, I dont know about the kung fu forms though, to be honest I have yet to notice how to use it in an actual situation, my wing chun classes are about 2-3 hours long, at the start 30 minutes of learning new forms and techniques and then the rest is used on sticking hand training among other soft sparring techniques. Also, among the student in the class many (like me) dont mind being hit, we hold back a little as to not hurt each other, but we will throw fast hard punches and elbows in order to train in sticking hands.

Boxing is good, I recognize it as a good fighting style, however, a good wing chun fighter vs a good boxer using only those styles I believe a wing chun guy would win, learning how to deflect the punches with only the littlest movement as well as attacking or trapping in that same instant.

about my comment above, the Wing Chun style is based on defending the centerline, your hands are not at your face, its closer to the mid torso, this is because the wing chun concept believes that the center is the most important place to protect. so you square your body, so both hands can activly attack unlike the boxing ones in front one in the back. With the wing chun stance you can equally protect all parts of your body, as well send punches to all places with equal speed as well as defend,(like the radius of a circle), making it the most effiecient stance for attack + defend. This stance also is better against grapplers, where the boxing stance your hands are up, wing chun your hands are more down, so its easier to get a hand on a guy trying to tackle you maybe drop a elbow (street fight) or push down on the head/shoulders so you move back with his momentum.


Some more technical stuff about wing chun style.

in training in wing chun, one of the key things to do is trap the opponents arms, when attacked, a wing chun fighter is trained to not only parry the arm, put to push or move or grab it, to a place where it cannot be used to defend against the incoming wing chun punch, once this punch is finished the arm reloads the punch by replacing the hand that was trapping the other arm, simple things like using your arms to keep his hands below yours so he cant protect his head, or grabbing and pulling then stepping to one side so he has to turn his body to defend.

another thing is training the joints to do work, it teaches you how to relax to generate more force, for instance a kind a defence where the elbow moves down to parry a attack, all power is used from the shoulder muscle to move the punch down instead of push the hand down, rotating the shoulder muscle instead of pushing down on it. this way you can push and control your opponent who tries to push your hands away with more ease.