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11 months ago
About to make my dummy.
How to learn wing chun
It made me
Happy but hard work 
"Dedication"
How I did it: I had been wanting to study Wing Chun for years, then my opportunity came when a class started in my home town. I joined and continued for four years until I moved from the town.
Lessons & tips: Dedication! Even though the class was 2 hours a week, it was encouraged that you practice outside of the class and you really should partner up with somebody who has as much dedication as you. I stopped at a point when the only way to have continued was to sacrifice more of my family and home life to the art which I was not willing to do. Ideally, you should be willing to spend at least six hours a week on it.
Join a class, preferably with a good instructor from an established organisation. There are many styles of training, we at the UKWCKFA trained hard and fast, whereas others take a more soft approach - our trainer often said that if you found yourself in a situation where you need to fight for your life, would you not want to have trained hard for that moment?
Resources: A good trainer, organisation and fellow students. NOT books - they taught me nothing.
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bryannnc does not like being treated like a receptacle for others' angst
sigh.
11 months ago
i’ve got the first sash or two of the WC curriculum down plus some chisao basics, but i haven’t been to the kwoon in forever. :|
i really do need to get back to class…
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11 months ago
Ive been self teaching myself Wing Chun for about 6 months now and need to learn Chi sao and Chum Kui.
I dont have anybody to train with so Im guessing chi sao is out.
(step by step)
Not bad...
18 months ago
My body hurts but I have held my own with some of the big boys in the class. So.. maybe I am not as old as I think! :-)
Chi Sao
18 months ago
Went to the early class to catch up on my training and it was just me and my Sifu for awhile. So we ended up doing a lot of Chi Sao.
Chi Sao or sticking hands, is a very interesting and cool sensitivity/awareness, timing and speed exercise. You have to maintain contact with your opponent/partner and through touch pick up the energy or direction of his movements. We often do it with our eyes closed and at a higher level feet are involved.
If you want to see a video on it I have attached one here where the particpants do a very good job.
Great style... love it....
19 months ago
Just wish I was better and had more time to practice. :-)
My Sifu is great though and I am privileged to have the opportunity to study with him.
curtin9 is off to Chicago
useful
19 months ago
the only martial art invented by a woman….and its a pretty good one. very useful and fun to practice. i want to buy a dummy for my room too.
Wing Chun
20 months ago
Definitely a turning point in my life, when I decided to start learning, or rather to see if I would be allowed to learn, I realized that even if I were to be accepted I was not yet a suitable student.
Since I’ve began I’ve found a calmness I didn’t know existed before.
I do not believe I will ever actually “finish” wing chun. Truthfully, I never really want to. Some of the most enlightening/joyous/memorable memories I have are from times where a principle or concept within Wing Chun suddenly made sense it me, I really do hope I never lose the ability to keep learning and creating and thats what a whole lot of it is.
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20 months ago
So this style intersts me. I find myself analyzing my movements when I get bored. So try I to economize them. I’d like to learn this style and then move on to something else. I think its a mistake to buy into a system. Better to take what works and keep moving.
J Thomas writing a book about pirates!
I started reading a book about it today.
2 years ago
Insightful, it said that the goal of marshal arts is to not fight. Not to avoid a fight, but to win in such a way, that your opponent respects you and does not fight with you again. I like that.
