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Focusing On Areas Of Weakness

Certain people are beating me up when I chi sau with them! So obviously I need to improve. The question is, "how?". Well, I could just take the non-specific approach and trust that my consistent - and generic - training will help me improve so much that I 'lose' less. And this will probably work.

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Wing Chun Training Progress Report

As we're already one third of the way into this year, I thought I'd do a progress report on my training. Well, I've not reached the lofty heights of a consistent 10 hours a week that I was aiming for, but I'm averaging more hours than my lazy alter ego managed last year.

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Ip Man On Chi Sau Tube

Searching For Ip Man No, I didn't manage to get an interview with Ip Man. It would take more than snappy interview technique to achieve that! I did a little survey this morning of all the phrases that people searched for in Google to find my site. There were masses of phrases relating to the great [...]

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Ip Man 2 Murmurings

The sequel to Wilson Yip's Ip Man biopic, tentatively titled Ip Man 2 (originality: null points) focuses on Ip Man's move to Hong Kong in 1949 and subsequent attempts to spread the word about Wing Chun. As expected, Donnie Yen takes on the title role as Ip Man again. I think he did a tremendous job in the first film and hope he does us proud again in the next one.

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Leo Au Yeung Interview

Leo Au Yeung was one of the fight choreographers on the Ip Man movie set. Recently, he agreed to do the following interview. Hi Leo. Thank you very much for agreeing to do this interview. How are you today? Where did you grow up? I originally grew up in Hong Kong. How did you come to be in England? I [...]

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In this interview, Donnie Yen explains that they couldn't put everything about Ip Man's life in the one movie. The subsequent Ip Man movies will be about Ip Man's meeting with and influence on Bruce Lee - his most famous student.

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This is the official Ip Man Movie Trailer.

Training

Improving Coordination

Posted on 26 June 2009

Over the past few weeks I've been practising one particular thing over and over again to improve my coordination. The meaning of coordination changes from one subject to another: in football I suppose coordination might be specific to the ability to do things like run, pick up a ball and pass it quickly. In Wing Chun, the coordination I'm talking about is the ability to put combinations of techniques together in a smooth and flowing manner. Continue Reading

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Training

Wrong Week To Quit Sniffing Glue

Posted on 18 May 2009

The last two weeks have been horrendous for training, with last week being especially bad. Problems at work have meant that instead of being in the gym doing Wing Chun at 7am, I've actually been in the office working at that time. And this is working without a break until 6pm. I've only managed one class per week, which I suppose isn't too bad, but I really felt the absence of the morning sessions. Continue Reading

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Chi Sau

Chi Sau Does What?

Posted on 06 May 2009

Ha ha, I was checking my traffic stats just now and it appears that someone found my site after searching in Google for "chi sau does what". That just cracked me up. To me, this sounds like someone who is completely perplexed by the whole idea of chi sau and just wants to know what its purpose is. Continue Reading

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Wing Chun

Is Wing Chun The Most Popular Martial Art?

Posted on 31 March 2009

Just How Popular Is Wing Chun? Most articles I've read that question which martial art is the most widely practised have answered that it's Wing Chun. I'm not sure that this is the case though, and I don't know where they get their statistics from. I know that if online resources are anything to go by [...] Continue Reading

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Overcoming A Lack Of Motivation

Posted on 24 March 2009

Part of the reason for me starting this site was to bolster my enthusiasm for Wing Chun. I used to suffer a lack of motivation to go to class. Once I got there, I would have a ball - the problem was in getting myself to leave the house. It's not because I'm lazy: quite [...] Continue Reading

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Siu Lim Tau

Epic Siu Lim Tau

Posted on 17 March 2009

I'm feeling quite pleased with myself this morning because I did a half hour siu lim tau. I'm going to the Wing Chun residential course that my club runs in May and I was talking to one of the guys who had been to others in the past. He gave me scary stories about doing [...] Continue Reading

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