Greetings on what appears to be the official end of summer weather in England for this year!

 

I spend the first part of last week out in Geneva with one of the most highly regarded close protection and bodyguard training companies in the UK. I have been associated with them for some time now, working with their team with the aim of developing their tuition and teaching methods even further, particularly in the area of unarmed combat. I will talk more about this at a later date, but on this particular trip the trainees spent most of the time on tactical handgun training.

 

It was particularly interesting to see that the concepts and training methods taught on the course were analogous to that of Chinese Wing Tsun. It was certainly poignant that the first part ...

Good morning.

 

I would like to say a further few words about Sunday. If the day did not seem quite busy enough, we had been also been very kindly invited by the Metropolitan Police to give a demonstration of Wing Tsun in an event organised by them in aid of the Peace Week. As we had the seminar we could not, unfortunately, turn up for the whole day. However, my schools and instructors have always shared the belief in working for the good of the community (indeed what is a martial art if it doesn’t?), and to support such an excellent cause as this, 3 of the instructors gave up their lunch break to take part. Without wanting to seem immodest, the instructors did both their Sifu and Wing Tsun proud. Not only did the audience applaud the demonstrations by the instructors, but they were thanked by both the organisers and the spectators afterwards. However, per ...

Good afternoon.

 

Sunday was the concluding day of the Chum Kiu seminar. It’s hard to describe your feelings as a master when you come to end of 4 days of continuous teaching like this. You are both physically and mentally completely drained – every last part of you and every drop of energy has gone into ensuring that the students achieve everything they can from the available time. However, at the same time you have this wonderful uplifting and elated feeling which stays with you for days to come. It has to be said that it is also touched with a hint of sadness – that the inevitable has happened and it had to come to an end. My feelings echo exactly that when one of the students came up to me and said ‘Sifu I only wish that we could have another 4 days!’

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Greetings

 

I would firstly like to say thank you to all my students for the lovely birthday card and present. It was kind of all of you.

 

Today is the first day of the Chum Kiu seminar – something which I had been looking forward to for some time now. Throughout my travels, and personal teaching experience, I have found that this has always been the most neglected and misunderstood form. As I mentioned before I feel people are ‘blinded’ in the rush to learn Biu Jee and Wooden Dummy and often lose sight of the purpose of Wing Tsun itself – development as a person. It provides the absolu ...

 

Sifu

Good morning.

Im afraid my desire to keep my posts up to date has not been able to be reconciled with the wiles of life! But as ever, I will strive to do so.

 

Two Wednesdays ago I had the chance to visit the beautiful grounds and ruins of Witley Court, set in the idyllic countryside of Worcestershire. To add the finishing touch it was also a splendid English day – with bright sunshine and a gentle breeze. Just visiting the church is worth the journey alone, with its amazing adorned ceiling, covered in gold leaf and paintings and surrounded by stained glass windows. It has the kind of atmosphere you cannot create – a special kind of stillness that of hundreds of years of people praying in creates.