| If you consider yourself a gentle person and | | | | Wing Chun is to station yourself squarely |
| never would expect to be involved into any | | | | with the |
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| fight or life-threatening confrontation, but | | | | opponent and all you need is to carry out |
| still want to learn how to protect yourself | | | | your movements in a straight line. And guess |
| and | | | | what, |
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| your family in case you were to be engaged | | | | you'd end up hitting your target faster and |
| in a life or death situation, then I'd highly | | | | harder 9 out of 10 times - before the |
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| suggest you consider Wing Chun, a Chinese | | | | has a chance to reach you travelling in an |
| Kung Fu system popularized by one of the | | | | arc form. Simple math, right?Another great |
| greatest | | | | and interesting thing about Wing Chun is: it |
| | | | trains your body not to think |
| martial artists of all times - Bruce Lee, as | | | | |
| your best choice of self defense system.It's | | | | when in combat, especially in close combat. |
| a system that is simple and yet powerful. Its | | | | The 'Sticky Hands' training is so powerful |
| advantages have been well appreciated by | | | | that |
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| professionals worldwide whose lives depend | | | | even Bruce Lee came back to Hong Kong to |
| on their abilities to engage and win in life- | | | | meet with Sifu. Wong, shun-leung to freshen |
| | | | up his |
| threatening combats. VIPs protection units, | | | | |
| soldiers, elite forces, police personel, body | | | | 'Sticky Hands' techniques. And by the way, |
| | | | this 'Sticky Hands' technique is one of the |
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| guards, or just plain civilians who want to | | | | |
| ensure and secure safety from potential | | | | essential parts of the whole Wing Chun |
| threats | | | | system, which is then the backbone of Bruce |
| | | | Lee's |
| that might occur in unexpected situations. | | | | |
| Let's not forget the martial art enthusiasts | | | | Jeet Kun Do system.I remember many years ago |
| who | | | | about a piece of news of a famous movie star |
| | | | in Hong Kong who was |
| consider martial arts as part of their | | | | |
| lifestyle. They all consider Wing Chun to be | | | | also a Wing Chun practitioner - he had a |
| one of | | | | fight in the bar with a big and tall |
| | | | westerner who |
| the most practical and yet gentle form of | | | | |
| fighting skills that can be learned | | | | was then a police academy karate trainer. |
| easily.The Wing Chun system operates on the | | | | Both of them were drunk and involved in quite |
| subconscious levels. I've had the honor to | | | | a |
| study my | | | | |
| | | | fierce fight in the dark and confined area |
| Wing Chun skills under the discipleship of | | | | in the bar. Guess who won? The movie star |
| Sifu. Wong, shun-leung whose name you can | | | | did. |
| very | | | | |
| | | | Simply because when both of them were so |
| easily look up from the Blackbelt magazine, | | | | drunk that they couldn't really think |
| who was one of the few true masters of the | | | | logically and |
| art | | | | |
| | | | that's when the advantage of the Wing Chun |
| of Wing Chun, and did many a session of | | | | system came in.When one is a competent Wing |
| translation for him as he had many students | | | | Chun martial artist, one can be blind-folded |
| who flew | | | | and still win the |
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| from all over the world to come to Hong Kong | | | | fight. That's how powerful the system is. |
| just to learn from him.One of the basic and | | | | Are you interested to become one of these |
| important principles of Wing Chun can be | | | | gentle |
| revealed via a simple | | | | |
| | | | and yet powerful person?Besides being a |
| mathematical formula: "Between 2 points the | | | | naturopathic physican, Dr. Kang-pang Chan is |
| shortest distance is a straight line." | | | | a personal trainer certified by the |
| | | | International Sports Sciences Association |
| Imagine that, all the fancy moves seen in | | | | (ISSA) as well as a certified instructor in |
| many other martial art systems would have you | | | | Yiquan - an advanced form of holistic Chinese |
| move | | | | martial art that utilises precise bodymind |
| | | | coordination as the real source of power.He |
| in big circular movements, or a big arc, so | | | | practised Wing Chun under the discipleship of |
| as to generate enough force to hit your | | | | Sifu. Wong, shun-leung for a long time before |
| target.And yet the basic form of movement in | | | | jumping to Yiquan. |