Grandmaster Tse paid another visit to the Northwest and was greeted by a large group of excited students eager to benefit
from his vast knowledge of Ip Man Wing Chun plus the other skills of Qigong, Shaolin Chun Yuen Quan and Chen Tajiiquan.…
I am lucky enough to have just been to Fatshan, China, to take part in the opening of the new Ip Man Memorial Hall in Loucun. Loucun is the town in which the Grandmaster of Wing Chun Kung Fu, Ip Man was born.…
Many years ago my Sifu coined the phrase, “Teaching without telling.” When you are being taught you expect to be told some new information, this could be a technique, skill, application or new movement in a form. This is a very fundamental level of teaching and learning.…
There are many people who love the idea of learning a martial art, I have come across a lot of people who say, “Oh I would love to do something like that.” However, the plain truth is not many of them actually go out and do it.…
It is a common feeling to find that you have reached a plateau in your Wing Chun training. When you first start everything is new and exciting, but after a while you find that that this passes and you come to a point where you feel that you are no longer improving.…
Wing Chun is not aggressive, practical yes, aggressive no. It is the same as a sharp knife, if you don’t treat it properly you can hurt yourself and others, but if you know how to use it correctly then you can get the job done more easily.…
Recently on two different occasion two different students apologised to me whilst I was teaching him. When I asked them what they were saying sorry for, they said, “I’m sorry as this must be very boring for you.” I smiled and reassured them that teaching them was not boring at all.…
Driving home after class the other day I was amazed to find a young man walking down the middle of the road straight at me. I could not believe that he was totally unaware that I was driving right at him!…
How many different techniques and applications do we need to know? 5, 10, 50, 100 is 1000 even enough? One of the most common question in class is, “What do you do in this situation?” Faced with this question I can always give an answer, but the next obvious question is, “but what if they do this instead?” This then leads to a never ending cycle as there are so many different possible situations that might arise from the same starting point.…
Welcome to my new website and blog. Here I plan to share with you some of the experiences that come up during my classes and teaching. The posts will vary in their nature some maybe technical, some philosophical, some simply observational. Let’s see where it takes us.…