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Wishing everyone a Happy and successful New Year.<br />
Just worth giving a thought to those who don't have it so good .If we can do that little bit to help and towards stopping climate change.<br />
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<b>The Internal Martial ARTS</b><br />
<b><span style="color: #005025;"><span style="color: red;"></span>Sessions are at my house with Dr Mark Green (Green Tai Chi). In order to know more about Mark see below;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #005025;">http://www.greentaichi.co.uk/Biography </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #005025;">To view </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #005025;">Mark focuses on Wing Chun and can accommodate students who want to learn other aspects of The Taiji system such as large San sau or The Yang Long Form privately . </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #000025;"><b>During the intervals between the sessions students meet up to train. for more details please make contact or for private lessons with Mark directly with him.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #000025;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br />Update for October/November We do meet on the Heath and sometimes at my house.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Update : . Sessions are commencing at our house this month.</span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Basic Wing Chun Knives has been learnt . We are focussing on The Taiji Walking Stick Form, revising The Taiji Long Form with applications. The Small San Sau , Kun fa with breakouts and an assortment of other</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Tomorrow Sat 6th November our teach, Mark can't make it as it's his birthday but we, students are meeting. The emphasis will be on sansau</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #000025; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #000025; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">I am adding a link to an article by kind permission of our previous teacher, Paul Brecher :'The truth about the Martial Arts</span><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;">https://www.taiji.net/truth ' .<div>I am adding a link .</div><div><br /></div><div>On page 8 An article by Paul Brecher . The Truth about Wing Chun</div></div></div>
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<b><span style="color: #000025;">U3A members can join me for sessions at Gordon Road Allotments for sessions on 'Grow Your Own'. </span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #000025;"><b>During the winter sessions may revert to zoom . They proved to be very popular. Students will be asked if they are willing to give a presentation for few minutes. It can be a vegetable recipe ,<br /></b></span>
<b><span style="color: #000025;">I would also like to use this page to encourage readers to look at the work of St Mungo's and other such charities in helping the homeless. They are grateful for any donations.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Page 6</span><br /><span style="color: blue;"><b>The paintings of Matan Peles , a resident of a community for adults with learning difficulties on Kibbutz (was a Kibbutz now a 'Community@) Mahanayim, <u>Upper Gailee, Israel.</u></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: red;">I recommend looking at these photos which can be purchased online. Every painting purchased is more support for the community. You can see more of his paintings on their url: </b><i style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.yahadbagalil.org.il/">www.Yahadbagalil.org.il</a> The site is in Hebrew but there is a translate button on the right hand side.</i><br />
<b><span style="color: red;">Under this article there is an article explaining The Israeli Kibbutz</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Page 8 There is an explanation of the Shaw Trust, a Horticultural Project for Adult with learning difficulties.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">A brand new page has been added 'Poems by Mark Shuck' . Anyone who has been troubled by squirrels in the garden will surely relate to the first in a series.</span></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="color: red;">Go to the following link to watch my neices Tanya and Lauren Seifert performing a beautiful performance of Theatrical Pole Dancing</span></u></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">The Seifert Sisters can be seen on www.theseifertsisters.com </span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>See an amazing array of skills . Tanya Seifert also offers private English lessons to foreign students.</b></span><br />
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<b><u><span style="color: #b08500;">Exciting new addition on Page 7</span></u></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b></b><u></u><b></b><u></u><span style="color: #b08500;"></span>There is an in depth explanation of how to grow sweet peas by Professor David Young. Having spoken to him has stimulated me to 'Have a Go'.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Scenes in this slide show are a mix of Kua Lalumpur and Vietnam.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We visited Vietnam in 2009 with some friends. That visit left a profound impression and a deep respect for the people. The effects of what they call 'The American War' can still be seen. Ironically the socalled 'greatest power on earth were not able to subdue this 'peasant people' even with the ghastly methods used. Vietnam has never, to my knowledge, been compensated by the US government.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>There are some scenes of the presidential palace. Ho Chi Minh went there to receive foriegn guests but chose to live in a simple abode. The pictures of the bird sanctuary were taken in Malaysia.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We visited Vietnam in 2009 with some friends. That visit left a profound impression and a deep respect for the people. The effects of what they call 'The American War' can still be seen. Ironically the socalled 'greatest power on earth were not able to subdue this 'peasant people' even with the ghastly methods used. Vietnam has never, to my knowledge, been compensated by the US government. <br />
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The most common trees to be found on sale are Fukian Carmona, Serissa Foetida (tree of a thousand stars), Sageretia Thezans, Chinese Elms,<br />
The first three are best indoors. Chinese Elm can be kept outdoors. If kept outdoors and sometimes indoors it will loose it's leaves. Sageretia Theezans is not a good tree for a beginner they can be temperamental. but they often have wonderful ancient looking trunks.<br />
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Watering.<br />
Often labels on bonsai will tell you how often to water. This is incorrect. The tree roots take up water according to a variety of external factors. During the winter there is less need for water and if you followed the instructions you would be 'drowning your tree'. I generally use the finger test. If the upper crust of the soil is dry. Than watering is needed. I prefer submerging the the pot until the bubbles have stopped.. Lift and let the water run out.It is also helpful to spray the leaves daily with water.<br />
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Feeding.<br />
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Feeding is best carried out from March to Sept. <br />
There are special bonsai feeds though I tend to use regular feeds such as tomato feed, bio feed etc.,<br />
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Repotting<br />
Is more of an annual task if needed. I will talk about it on another occasion <br />
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Placing the trees.<br />
Indoor trees: An area where there is plenty of light except when it gets really hot. Then move to a shadier spot. Do not place near a radiater. Outdoors : I have found by trial and error that during the summer it is better to keep the trees in semi shade. In both situations it is worth turning the trees around occasionally. Though trees outside need less care they still need checking for watering during dry spells.Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-73343879792462218632010-11-01T04:29:00.000-07:002011-01-10T09:56:45.640-08:00An Update<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGo4FscnfcUMVVrKs_hDHhDEc_yPxG_QXqhXGbpxM4WqOYkhGljnizqaGZNep6eoLbO2-W_SVBvf43sDhMZOuI6hX1HoP5tE9lSGkCsBIpfVq5bvvzd06rGTznOvypr-Cgf6_9p4CYbmKG/s1600/AN+UPdate+on+landscapes+early+november+2010+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGo4FscnfcUMVVrKs_hDHhDEc_yPxG_QXqhXGbpxM4WqOYkhGljnizqaGZNep6eoLbO2-W_SVBvf43sDhMZOuI6hX1HoP5tE9lSGkCsBIpfVq5bvvzd06rGTznOvypr-Cgf6_9p4CYbmKG/s320/AN+UPdate+on+landscapes+early+november+2010+003.JPG" width="320" /></a>I haven't created any new trays for quite a while due to raw materials being too costly. Occasionally I will make small adjustments on the existing trays and because the landscapes change as the trees grow I felt it worth revisiting them.</div><br />
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I was speaking to someone on the plot today as I thought they may not be aware of various aspects of composting. I mentioned the fact that I never add brassicae or potato roots to my compost heap because of the likelihood of spreading disease and that I constantly turn the heap. I didn't want to go onto long as it would have been more like a lecture but I would like to mention that I try to keep the heap flat and wet. I keep a small bin in the kitchen for the green uncooked leftovers and i watch it like a hawk so that nothing else goes in.<br />
I hope this might be of use. I thought it worth mentioning as sometimes people treat compost heaps as rubbish heaps. It really doesn't work that way if you want quality compost.<br />
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My main passion is planting into rock. I have ceased creating new ones as resources are expensive. I have attempted in a fashion to copy the Vietnamese style of 'Hon Non Bo' of planting into rock which is surrounded by water.<br />
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I felt a great empathy and respect for the people.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE0CH-5WnjncXEVkze5xGx4-DsKQ-gIAEAq4-vgfOMU9W9ShnegwFj1GzOT7CkEXIJD6HDutlAKf5flG22YTm4GPSDx0eKNGAeVlQ0Nz8u2ILGy5fenGyNCltoS0CAP5FUzyZ9j0KRjyLO/s1600/vietnam_1047.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488176672922450242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE0CH-5WnjncXEVkze5xGx4-DsKQ-gIAEAq4-vgfOMU9W9ShnegwFj1GzOT7CkEXIJD6HDutlAKf5flG22YTm4GPSDx0eKNGAeVlQ0Nz8u2ILGy5fenGyNCltoS0CAP5FUzyZ9j0KRjyLO/s320/vietnam_1047.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStAZJtO63S-U3DjK3aYh4IOJ3SKDWprDb4ZN55e4fltZeIeaurRoq8T67lzzfaOpwq82GqoaTWbaJbKiRhgNN2CcRztEuRhfjLqLe1lBpbTelfaanUvNMjAU5ZdhUC9e1pa19fLt-zWK0/s1600/vietnam_1197.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488176156375786274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStAZJtO63S-U3DjK3aYh4IOJ3SKDWprDb4ZN55e4fltZeIeaurRoq8T67lzzfaOpwq82GqoaTWbaJbKiRhgNN2CcRztEuRhfjLqLe1lBpbTelfaanUvNMjAU5ZdhUC9e1pa19fLt-zWK0/s320/vietnam_1197.JPG" /></a><br /><br />There are no traffic rules. Vehicles go in all directions yet I never witnessed any accidents.</div><div>The cyclists and moped riders carry extra passengers and luggage.<br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiW6LY_HcXzMBAbtQyAYMZYjlxQl1vbcBn5SC4s2dkdfPUwOzcT0HhLWYRXZ4AJTa9Vmz6sV72Ou1PIaXYVxyg8SmLvjrTLw5gwltU-b2ASIkVU3YMJkq90c2a1xwWRiMwJi8aX0YWbOGG/s1600/vietnam_191.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 142px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488175842714486994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiW6LY_HcXzMBAbtQyAYMZYjlxQl1vbcBn5SC4s2dkdfPUwOzcT0HhLWYRXZ4AJTa9Vmz6sV72Ou1PIaXYVxyg8SmLvjrTLw5gwltU-b2ASIkVU3YMJkq90c2a1xwWRiMwJi8aX0YWbOGG/s320/vietnam_191.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-VeMz_TKEcFD7Ufjny4CY6UzZhIVuhjD4FA1OX8XcCdux_Xit3C142i6U2CqR6ja_pxYsSrgM2GmunUJ1gTHhUbuBbmfGTunJhYCpn62POtTwCI8gOIDNpb9oATD9GdxuYS5jOYvCpa7/s1600/vietnam+j+boyd.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 115px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488175154961982770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-VeMz_TKEcFD7Ufjny4CY6UzZhIVuhjD4FA1OX8XcCdux_Xit3C142i6U2CqR6ja_pxYsSrgM2GmunUJ1gTHhUbuBbmfGTunJhYCpn62POtTwCI8gOIDNpb9oATD9GdxuYS5jOYvCpa7/s320/vietnam+j+boyd.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-91842000090759141452010-06-29T04:09:00.000-07:002010-06-29T04:42:03.105-07:00Mixed Scenes from Vietnam and Kua lalumpur, Malaysia<p><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyO5_sriAHJMSqJk8yiB7j-Qn9_RP1UHJf6sg0uf1GSI-HCcWhRXgLEHURhDi62VNpi0bg8roWADPCiDmBwnQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><p>On this slideshow views from Vietnam and Kua lalumpur</p>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-44625890693033355882010-06-21T10:21:00.000-07:002010-06-21T10:26:09.887-07:00A wonderful bookI would like to recommend a book I am reading 'The Dove Flyer' by Eli Amir. The book has a Jewish Theme begins in Baghdad in the 1950's.Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-70455491877979652242010-06-08T03:05:00.000-07:002010-06-29T04:05:58.578-07:00Lucy Seifert Life Coaching<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrweixanIhpSnECB6ji2r9f_irP-_Lfo7nMTyiVLILrAktBZzbxUFcr6W9gLZTYfhNy1b9xxhFY61J3ttrZiaeHmhSshRknrQoSg8OU2oh8QYbhuXotmYNGdlmpRdlwkqt12Q1ns7F1-7R/s1600/photo+6th+June+2010.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 288px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480346685162659826" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrweixanIhpSnECB6ji2r9f_irP-_Lfo7nMTyiVLILrAktBZzbxUFcr6W9gLZTYfhNy1b9xxhFY61J3ttrZiaeHmhSshRknrQoSg8OU2oh8QYbhuXotmYNGdlmpRdlwkqt12Q1ns7F1-7R/s320/photo+6th+June+2010.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div>Lucy Seifert is a leading expert in the field of Life Coaching and Training. To see the wide range of excellent services offered by Lucy Seifert please go to her site</div><div> just click on the link opposite. </div>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-17743191289982471902010-05-25T08:22:00.000-07:002010-06-29T04:01:03.157-07:00Ji Young Moon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqsMFcyTMqg2jTEKzH-m9pEqwp_H5kx8PdGgLKtzWtIyictCLhTbhgmWwKoWuV8FsMVj-mhwtYwH4goN1etdQG62zQYJA4_r0agwy9QHsbNVlThvQL5Kq8CXlLgOzeY0Ek1iW78fypg_D0/s1600/100515_003.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqsMFcyTMqg2jTEKzH-m9pEqwp_H5kx8PdGgLKtzWtIyictCLhTbhgmWwKoWuV8FsMVj-mhwtYwH4goN1etdQG62zQYJA4_r0agwy9QHsbNVlThvQL5Kq8CXlLgOzeY0Ek1iW78fypg_D0/s320/100515_003.JPG" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVopBBtvAQRjS-8bdUE4hIJmW_QiX072-lcw72-bZLpT7B4vxBl1byodSLTgL-m0xCWqSq6_8ViQUI43DYcO09ACKNaYzHEP5DOox3u6NGh0Phy0xgl0t90Z7zwr6go3ey0PWE8tTQaLb/s1600/100515_004.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVopBBtvAQRjS-8bdUE4hIJmW_QiX072-lcw72-bZLpT7B4vxBl1byodSLTgL-m0xCWqSq6_8ViQUI43DYcO09ACKNaYzHEP5DOox3u6NGh0Phy0xgl0t90Z7zwr6go3ey0PWE8tTQaLb/s320/100515_004.JPG" /></a> These are just a few of the many photos taken in our garden by Ji Young Moon a Korean language student who stayed with us. I felt she had a special eye for detail.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUGKnz55ThBVhGp_Mo7-8qrDILPXv2YBf5KNAhzHebL2vAapHIjyebmhToHArTj6F-ZD1q1-c9W1XOCY6CkJSAaFegKRRASUa-ih9uxldVejDb-XF6TpJ-BEjnYC05x9Rw1pHdOxUaLcd/s1600/100515_007.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUGKnz55ThBVhGp_Mo7-8qrDILPXv2YBf5KNAhzHebL2vAapHIjyebmhToHArTj6F-ZD1q1-c9W1XOCY6CkJSAaFegKRRASUa-ih9uxldVejDb-XF6TpJ-BEjnYC05x9Rw1pHdOxUaLcd/s320/100515_007.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnpzSTzV34L1DvRh9hAyjdXci-WiyU2RtkaRacFuS6VJxNa8Bv_NiCVmU9l0L_fN-905L8LHfzV-8L4RHAM_3_lnhKYC9q8gKXbHub0EEY6-KKvb2K0FNq2Xgsdq5Rlnd4wsBOM6xbxJRJ/s1600/100515_011.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnpzSTzV34L1DvRh9hAyjdXci-WiyU2RtkaRacFuS6VJxNa8Bv_NiCVmU9l0L_fN-905L8LHfzV-8L4RHAM_3_lnhKYC9q8gKXbHub0EEY6-KKvb2K0FNq2Xgsdq5Rlnd4wsBOM6xbxJRJ/s320/100515_011.JPG" /></a> <em></em><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; CLEAR: both"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /></a></div>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-15223517204323752432010-03-15T03:42:00.000-07:002021-09-06T22:13:17.183-07:00New additions to the blog<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">In the coming months there will be a number of new additions to the blog by a variety of contributors. The articles that will appear are not necessarily my views.</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">I do however reserve the right not to print articles if I consider them unethical.</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">A great thanks to all new contributors.</span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">I hope this will be an enriching experience.</span></strong><div><main class="site-main clr" id="main" role="main" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141414; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><div class="elementor elementor-4821" data-elementor-id="4821" data-elementor-settings="[]" data-elementor-type="wp-page" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; hyphens: manual; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-section-wrap" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8dfdecf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="8dfdecf" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}" style="background-color: rgba(194, 203, 210, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; position: relative; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10d6064" data-element_type="column" data-id="10d6064" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b5d23c5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="b5d23c5" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 40px 40px 0px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">THE TRUE HISTORY OF WING CHUN</h1></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b94e643 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="b94e643" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">200 years ago, less than 100 people practiced Wing Chun. Today, Wing Chun is practiced globally by over 100,000 people. The vast majority of them believe the Wing Chun creation story.</span></h3></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2f91eef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="2f91eef" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}" style="background-color: #f5f7f8; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; position: relative; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-49f298c" data-element_type="column" data-id="49f298c" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-0fdad6d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="0fdad6d" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To question the story is similar to questioning a religious doctrine. The devout believers will be angered and want to punish the heretic!</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I do not want 100,000 Wing Chun devout believers trying to excommunicate me. So, if you are a Wing Chun fundamentalist, please stop reading this article now!</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I started my Wing Chun training in 1991. Now, thirty years later in 2021, I have decided to write my first article about Wing Chun.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In part one, I look at the difference between what I was told about the history of Wing Chun when I was young and what I now know to be true. This very recent journey of research and discovery is full of unexpected revelations!</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the second part of this article, I discuss why I think Wing Chun is such an incredible martial art. Why it is so enjoyable and beneficial to train, and why I recommend it to anyone interested in Chinese martial arts.</p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4f1699ac elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="4f1699ac" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3f34c9cf" data-element_type="column" data-id="3f34c9cf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-9744baa elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="9744baa" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PART ONE: WING CHUN HISTORY</h3></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-77cd1e5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="77cd1e5" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was told the history of Wing Chun by my older martial arts teachers. They believed this story to be true. For decades, I also believed them. I felt that through this story I was connecting to an ancient Buddhist tradition.</p></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-b4f4c8c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="b4f4c8c" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px 30px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The creation story of Wing Chun involves the Northern Shao Lin Buddhist Temple that was founded almost 1,500 years ago by the Buddhist monk ‘Bodhidharma’ who came to China from India.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Bodhidharma arrived at the temple, he saw that the monks were weak and taught them some movement exercises that later became Shao Lin martial arts. He also left for them a secret training manual.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then about 300 years ago, the Northern Shao Lin Temple (or sometimes the Southern Shao Lin Temple) was supporting a rebellion against the Manchu overlords. Some of the monks supported the government, others were against it.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a betrayal, and the Shao Lin Temple is burnt down. (Sometimes it is the Southern Shao Lin Temple, in other stories it is the Northern Shao Lin Temple).</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some monks and a nun escape from the temple. The nun hides out in the White Crane Temple where she reconstructs the best components of Shao Lin martial arts.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This compressed style is then taught to a young girl called Wing Chun. Wing Chun (the girl) then teaches Wing Chun (the martial art) to her husband. A student of the husband teaches it to an actor in the Chinese opera.</p></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-61274e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="61274e9" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Questioning Wing Chun History</h2></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-ded611a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="ded611a" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recently, I started to question the Wing Chun creation story when I found out that it is almost the exact same creation story that is used by several other southern Chinese martial arts:</p></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-f7096ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="f7096ab" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 15px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The creation story of the martial art of White Crane is connected to the Shao Lin temple and a rebellion. It is developed by a female martial artist in the White Crane Temple and is passed on to an actor in the Chinese opera.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The creation story of the martial art of Five Ancestors is connected to the Shao Lin temple and a rebellion.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The creation story of the martial art of Hung Ga is connected to a monk from the Northern Shao Lin temple who is involved with a rebellion. When the Northern Shao Lin temple is burnt down, he flees to the Southern Shao Lin temple.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the creation story of another Southern Chinese martial art called Bak Mei it is said that the Shao Lin temple is involved in a rebellion and there is a betrayal and the temple is burnt down. (In some versions it is the Northern Shao Lin Temple in others the Southern). A monk flees the Shao Lin Temple and hides out in the Fujian Temple and develops his martial art.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the creation story of the martial art of Southern Praying Mantis, a rebel took refuge in the Northern Shao Lin Temple which was then destroyed. He then fled to the Southern Shao Lin Temple in Fujian where he taught his martial art.</li></ul></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4543b0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="4543b0d" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I thought if the story is true, how can it apply to so many different styles?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Maybe it is a very good story which is why a lot of people use it?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Maybe some aspects of the story are true?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, my total belief in the truth of the whole of the Wing Chun creation story has been undermined.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was further shocked to recently discover that the story of Bodhidharma arriving at the temple and teaching the monks movement exercises that later became Shao Lin martial arts cannot be true.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is because Bodhidharma never visited the Shao Lin Temple. When he arrived in China, he was already a very old man. The temple was built 30 or 40 years after he had arrived in China. He was dead before the temple was built or had monks in it.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Within the martial arts world, it is well known that the martial arts of Shao Lin Temple are intimately connected with the secret Buddhist training manual that Bodhidharma gave to the monks almost 1,500 years ago. It is called the ‘Muscle/Tendon Change Classic’. But it turns out that this is a Taoist Chi Kung instruction manual written in 1624 by the Taoist priest Zining. In 1827, a fake prefix was added to this document attributing it to the Buddhist Bodhidharma.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are a vast number of historical documents that discuss Bodhidharma. There are also a vast number of historical documents that discuss monks from the Northern Shao Lin Temple training with the staff (pole).</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, these two separate subjects were only brought together for the first time in the fictional novel ‘The Travels of Lao Ts’an’. This book was written by Liu E (1857-1909) and first published in 1904. This fictional story was further developed in the 1915 book ‘Secrets of Shaolin Boxing’.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is more…</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first document to mention a Southern Shao Lin Temple was the fictional novel called Sheng Chao Ding Sheng Wannian Qing published in 1893. In this story, the Manchu attack the fictional Southern Shao Lin Temple.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are three modern-built ‘Southern’ Shao Lin Temples. All in different locations. All claiming to be inheritors of the original ancient Northern Shao Lin Temple tradition. All three modern ‘Southern’ Shao Lin Temples claim to be built on the location of an ‘ancient’ Southern Shao Lin Temple.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(It is quietly understood that having a local ‘Shao Lin’ Temple is good for making money from martial arts tourists who want a myth made real. This applies to tourists from within China as much as to foreign tourists).</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, it seems that historically the Northern Shao Lin Temple was never burnt down in ancient times by the Manchu rulers. At that point in history, the temple consisted of a few mostly abandoned old buildings. It was actually the Manchu who paid for it to be renovated and rebuilt.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Northern Shao Lin Temple <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was</em></span> burnt down. But that was in <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1928</span> during the fighting between the Warlords and the Nationalists.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finding out that the martial arts stories handed down to me were just stories (literally, they were fictional literature) and not historical truth has been very unsettling.</p></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-3f2701e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="3f2701e" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun Weapons</h4></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-471d0fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="471d0fe" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are a vast number of historical documents that discuss monks from the Northern Shao Lin Temple training with the staff (pole). And Wing Chun has a pole form. So, is there a connection?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Throughout Chinese history, in every part of China, the use of a staff as a weapon was very common. Individuals used it, armies and militia used it. Every martial art used it. It was affordable, available and practical. So just because Shao Lin Temple and Wing Chun both trained with a staff, does not mean that there was any connection.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the Butterfly Swords, also known as the Eight Cutting Blades or Eight Slashing Knives is the quintessential weapon of Wing Chun. The way that the two weapons fit into one scabbard, the wide chopper shape and short length of the blades and the D-shaped guard are all unique characteristics. This weapon has only existed for 200 years and only in Southern China. Clearly, it has nothing to do with the ancient Shao Lin Temple in the north.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Butterfly Knives were used by individuals, security guards, local militia and many southern Chinese martial arts systems. They were not used by the army. So this is a recent civilian weapon of Southern China.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Short swords are relevant for the urban alleyways of southern China’s heavily populated cities and the crowded boats on the waterways that crisscrossed the southern river deltas.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Butterfly Knives have only existed for 200 years and are THE weapon of the Southern Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The Butterfly Knives are a recent civilian weapon of Southern China. The inevitable conclusion to be drawn from this is that Wing Chun is a recent local Southern Chinese civilian martial art.</p></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-eb09c4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="eb09c4c" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun in Print</h4></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-8cb0cf1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="8cb0cf1" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun must be a relatively new martial art. The first time it is mentioned in a printed document is in 1919 in the tenth anniversary commemorative yearbook of the mainland Chinese Jingwu Association.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The second time is in the 1926 local newsletter of the Foshan branch of the Jingwu Association. It explains that Feng Xiaoli was taught Wing Chun by Leung Jan’s son Leung Bik in 1883.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The third time Wing Chun is mentioned in a printed document is in Hong Kong in 1946. Huang Hanxun published a book called ‘Secrets of The Mantis Boxing Art’. Huang Hanxun says that his own Mantis Boxing uses long-range techniques for attacks and short-range techniques for defence. He says attack with hardness and defend with softness. Huang Hanxun says that his own Mantis Boxing is the perfect balance of softness and hardness and that Wing Chun and Tai Chi Chuan also emphasize softness.</p></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-caa54fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="caa54fc" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conclusions of Part One</h4></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-236d3999 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="236d3999" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wing Chun creation story is clearly not true historically. Wing Chun is approximately 200 years old, not 1,500 years old. It is a southern Chinese boxing style not connected with the Northern Shao Lin Temple.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The very last part of the Wing Chun creation story mentions an actor in the Chinese opera. I think it is here that we can find the true origins of Wing Chun.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From the historical evidence, it is clear that actors in the Chinese opera had an ongoing fascination with indigenous local Southern Chinese martial arts. They wanted to include authentic martial arts movements and techniques in their performances.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition, they needed to be good at martial arts for their own personal protection. Southern China was experiencing an endless cataclysm of rebellions, revolutions, land invasions, pirate attacks, sea-born foreign invasions, poverty and hardship leading to banditry and uprisings.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Clearly, the members of the Chinese opera performance groups who journeyed across this violent and unpredictable part of China would need to be able to defend themselves.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They would perform in many different locations as they travelled around Southern China. They would have been able to train in many different martial arts styles from many different geographical locations.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I believe that they created Wing Chun; a style that was the essence of the best techniques and principles of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts they encountered.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leung Jan (1826 – 1901) learnt Wing Chun from the Chinese opera actors, Wong Wah Bo and Leung Yee Tai.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Performers in Chinese opera were very low down in the social hierarchy. Who would want to learn, practice or teach a new style created by actors?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To give Wing Chun prestige maybe the recently created, fictional, heroic backstory that all Southern styles were using was adopted by Wing Chun as well?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bodhidharma, Buddhist fighting monks, the burning Shao Lin Temple, betrayal, escape and rebellion!</p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-88359bd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="88359bd" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}" style="background-color: #f5f7f8; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 50px 0px 0px; position: relative; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e14bbdc" data-element_type="column" data-id="e14bbdc" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-c123a73 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="c123a73" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PART TWO: WHY WING CHUN IS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE MARTIAL ART</h2></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-93c4aff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="93c4aff" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun is a lot like western boxing (with the addition of kicks and knives!) Western boxing is ‘stand up’ and ‘strike’. In simple terms, western boxing has a small number of moves. For example: jab, cross, hook, uppercut and the overhand right. These moves are put together in unlimited combinations depending on the situation.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun is also ‘stand up’ and ‘strike’. There is a small number of moves. For example: straight punch, chopping hand, wing arm, palm strike, elbow and shocking hand. These moves are put together in unlimited combinations depending on the situation.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Western boxing is also about how you close the distance with the opponent, where you position yourself in relation to them and how you succeed through a deep understanding of tactics and angles of attack. Wing Chun is exactly the same.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Western boxing has a few training methods. For example: the heavy bag and shadow boxing. Wing Chun also has a few training methods. For example: the wooden man and some two-person pre-arranged fight sequences.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Western boxing agrees that training methods are good, but the best thing is to pair up, put the gloves on and fight.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is exactly the same in Wing Chun. We pair up (don’t put the gloves on) and fight.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Wing Chun, true understanding comes from practical experience. Can you apply what you know in a spontaneous and unpredictable and slightly chaotic situation?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun is the basic A B C from which the words, sentences and paragraphs of other styles are composed. It is the raw component pieces, the building blocks, the nuts and bolts of Chinese martial arts.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because it is so simple, one might think it is a more ancient style and that the more complex and sophisticated traditional styles evolved from it as more intricacies were added over time.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quite the opposite is the case. The modern creators of Wing Chun stripped down the traditional styles and found their essence. The common denominators that gave them all their functional effectiveness.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to Wing Chun, I also teach other traditional Chinese martial arts. However, I like my students to first spend a few years learning Wing Chun with me to get a good grounding in the practical realities of applied Chinese martial arts. Then any other style I teach will make sense and be easy for them to learn and apply.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-378ac79 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="378ac79" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}" style="background-color: #f5f7f8; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3ebcfc7" data-element_type="column" data-id="3ebcfc7" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1140px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-5823910 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="5823910" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More Reasons Why Wing Chun Is Such an Incredible Martial Art</h4></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-f0cd764 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="f0cd764" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun is like a simple line drawing. Teachers add in shading according to their personal preferences.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are 12 examples of how teachers shade and colour the way they teach Wing Chun.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 1:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher could choose to tell the mythical creation story of Wing Chun and incorporate Buddhist ideas into their teaching, like mindfulness and meditation.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alternatively, a teacher could emphasise that Wing Chun is an indigenous Chinese martial art, and it is, therefore, Taoist in its principles. There would be discussions about yin and yang and chi flow.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher could emphasise Confucian hierarchical structures and ask to be called ‘Sifu’ which translates as ‘father’. He could say that the senior students should be called ‘Sihing’ which translates as ‘elder brother’.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, the teacher has the option of letting go of Chinese cultural concepts altogether and could use modern scientific terminology. They could emphasise angles, structural integrity, speed, momentum, weight and impact.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 2:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher could emphasise the ‘martial’ in martial art and focus on practical applications.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the other hand, a teacher could emphasise the ‘art’ in martial art and focus on presentation, form, posture and how the art is performed.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 3:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher could say Wing Chun is an external martial art that is all about strength, force and aggression. Smashing the enemy is the objective by using Direct Attack.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the other hand, a teacher could say that Wing Chun is an internal art that uses Evasive Attack and expresses the power of its strikes using internal force.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher could say that it is a bit of both, depending on the situation.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 4:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher could explain that Wing Chun is only a practical martial art and should be trained with this one focus.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher could also say that Wing Chun is not only a practical martial art but also a way of self-development to cultivate concentration, determination and awareness. It’s a way to achieve good health and a journey of spiritual development.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 5:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher might spend more time getting students to practice single-person forms.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher might emphasise two-person pre-arranged sequences.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some other teacher might emphasise spontaneous free fighting.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 6:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher might emphasise that the Wing Chun Butterfly Knives are used to stab. And that the wooden man is a conditioning tool that should be hit hard.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher might emphasise that the Wing Chun Butterfly Knives are used to slash. And that the wooden man is about learning the correct angles of attack and one should move around it with a light touch.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 7:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher might say that the martial applications of the moves are always used in a way that causes as little damage to the opponent as possible. They might emphasise a non-violent philosophy.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher might emphasise that the Wing Chun moves should be applied in a way that causes maximum damage to the opponent in case there is a second opponent. You would not want the first opponent to recover and re-attack at the same time as the second opponent. Winning one-on-one is hard enough. To win when it is two against one is a lot harder.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 8:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One teacher might say Wing Chun is for winning competitions with rules and rounds, weight divisions, scoring points and separate categories for men and women wearing protective equipment. So they would train their students a certain way.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher might say Wing Chun is for self-defence. Men and women fight each other. There are no rules or rounds, no protective equipment, no weight divisions and no points awarded. Just effective fight-stopping moves. So they would train their students a different way.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 9:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher could have a preference for a 60/40 weight distribution. Then a kick from the front leg can be released with more ease.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher might have a preference for a 50/50 weight distribution. Then a practitioner could move in any direction without having to shift their weight first.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 10:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher might say Wing Chun is only ‘stand up’ and ‘strike’ and only teach that.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher might say Wing Chun starts with understanding ‘stand up’ and ‘strike’. Then once this has been mastered, other ideas such as grappling, wrestling, throws, takedowns (and counters to takedowns), a ground game (locking them up and ground and pound) can be added on.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 11:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher might say Wing Chun is for a face-to-face (nose-to-nose) situation when you are square on and that you must work from there.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher could emphasise fast footwork, always moving to the side and being in a side-on-stance to avoid face-to-face and instead create a nose-to-ear angle.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #012c6d; font-family: "Roboto Condensed"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Example 12:</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A teacher might have a preference for a formal atmosphere in the class with lots of saluting and bowing.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another teacher might conduct the class in an informal way, on first-name terms with a more relaxed atmosphere.</p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c10f64e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="c10f64e" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}" style="background-color: #f5f7f8; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 30px; position: relative; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; 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line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1120px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wing Chun is so wonderful because it is like a simple line drawing. Above are 12 different ways it can be shaded and coloured in by the teacher. No one can ever know which combination is how it was practiced 200 years ago. So each teacher creates their own picture.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After a few years, students have understood that behind the shaded and coloured picture their teacher has shown them, is actually a simple line drawing. They then also can shade it and colour it according to their own personal preferences.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I think that this adaptability is why Wing Chun is such an incredible martial art. It also allows for the teacher to rub out some of the shaded and coloured parts of their personal picture and rework it, so it looks different. This can be because they have realised things from their experience or have just grown older and so see things a different way.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Four of Wing Chun’s most famous practitioners: Leung Jan, Chan Wah Shun, Yuen Kay San and Ip Man, all learnt from several teachers and mixed together what they had learnt.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They all shaded and coloured the style to reflect their own unique understanding. All four taught different versions at different times in their lives as they reworked their personal picture from their experience.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For example, when Leung Jan retired from his pharmacy shop in town and returned to his family village in the countryside, he taught a different version of Wing Chun. Or you could say he taught Wing Chun in a different way. (He reworked his personal picture).</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We can conclude that there is not one version of Wing Chun but many variations. So who can say which is the best, most authentic or most useful?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To attract students, some Wing Chun teachers may say that they are the inheritors of the true lineage. They may also claim that their version is the correct way Wing Chun should be practiced and applied.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, we can see that Wing Chun has been endlessly evolving and changing. Different teachers shade and colour the simple line drawing of Wing Chun in many different ways. Wing Chun still continues to adapt and change today.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope you have enjoyed reading this article. And I hope you continue to enjoy training the great martial art of Wing Chun.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A detailed explanation of Paul’s Wing Chun system is contained within Paul’s Wing Chun Book that students receive free at their first class.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul has also written many other <a href="https://www.taiji.net/books" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6bbf59; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">© 2015-21 by Paul Brecher</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></div></footer></div>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-10439671259129671812010-01-06T03:39:00.000-08:002010-03-22T14:24:39.944-07:00Mini Landscapes created by Arik<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dztZO0FSzSDEj_1n0e7Ii48bA-GslFYrd7adedDNprWSVdreWwvB2OxPeFSyHnGMHUjsd3d4RBfDPK-et7sWA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-63804842169404184552010-01-06T02:46:00.000-08:002010-06-29T04:08:19.049-07:00Scenes from Vietnam<p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx417XwhbtgBudUPPM6_q6miLLDB-ohnwokl7oiLo5l8sdWKBjlo-H6iXufTIZxJUkbFh77Rwq12_y1ILniMw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><p>My trip to Vietnam was a profound experience more than any other holiday experience. It left me with a deep respect for the Vietnamese people. I felt it important to keep some of the memories on my blog.</p><p>I remember a quote I found in The War Remanents Museum made by a US Government Official 'We will blast these people into the stone age'. They didn't manage to do that though the legacy of 'Agent Orange' can still be seen.</p><p>It seems to me that the finger is often pointed at places such as Israel and yet the American Government was never called to answer for their misdeeds or did they ever pay reparations</p>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-15598443162586598372009-12-28T09:41:00.000-08:002010-01-06T03:35:45.753-08:00Vietnam<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzbSN9AGCPNKhk2WsBpm9VVLQTfoM5dLXjHLtrHck31kRNi1fRjHXbQM_NEqry7mJvgytR2xW-tcg2lv9WSpw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-40500044029287314242009-11-21T09:42:00.000-08:002011-02-11T01:59:34.018-08:00A Rising Star - Tanya Seifert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPg4uKR19Th99N6lUC_bbS0Vjk_RunLdxB3RQhGA0HZEt5c4J0kP_Y_IQwuOcS_LKRs5dKNSveY6cjbFvlixoRoIPzsgg7wbevcGlyDRCWkdSY_PcL07jhQETqEu8VVr_Y0gUyGgjbMJWL/s1600/CIMG0096-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406613926709027250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPg4uKR19Th99N6lUC_bbS0Vjk_RunLdxB3RQhGA0HZEt5c4J0kP_Y_IQwuOcS_LKRs5dKNSveY6cjbFvlixoRoIPzsgg7wbevcGlyDRCWkdSY_PcL07jhQETqEu8VVr_Y0gUyGgjbMJWL/s320/CIMG0096-1.jpg" style="float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 180px;" /></a> <span style="color: #000099;">Tanya (my older niece) is currently studying literature and film studies at university. Despite her heavy workload she has managed to record a number of songs some written by her.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000099;">You can hear her sing on <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tanyaseifert">www.myspace.com/tanyaseifert</a> Just click to hear her magnificent voice.</span><br />
<span style="color: #000099;">Look out for her new collection of songs including some ballads that she has composed. These are due out in December.</span></div>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-5331158200053640742009-11-12T09:13:00.000-08:002010-01-06T03:30:25.219-08:00Some Scenes fom Kua lumpar<p><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw7rWk1ey2Ax4NS_gyqGGr59uM-N3pw8bmwMXh5V7DXKD7AKciMSLR0sqYd8ONquctwnSqGaV-XyPbKkkqTNQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><p>Some Scenes from Kua lumpar and Vietnam. Some of the landscapes I saw were an inspiration for my own mini landscapes.</p>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-59007227092800098752009-11-12T08:59:00.000-08:002009-11-12T09:12:35.284-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBdwO_b3WEkvwWB-6oVssN6J2Qd5_MJVW63O-N5LuJWb1kslIXnLq7a6__sdgxWvfDq7zEW_qQPthLaa0_Fd6UptBGLSYT6vJi_oRjxxGG3cw0wRkTSNkemWjn9UG6KiT4bKC5JBphDYAz/s1600-h/vietnam_203.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403265482986282546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 183px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBdwO_b3WEkvwWB-6oVssN6J2Qd5_MJVW63O-N5LuJWb1kslIXnLq7a6__sdgxWvfDq7zEW_qQPthLaa0_Fd6UptBGLSYT6vJi_oRjxxGG3cw0wRkTSNkemWjn9UG6KiT4bKC5JBphDYAz/s320/vietnam_203.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLMiw3iM8bFWkDleOep0uLQufDDXDcjsGHa0u2g7U2vmpaPI8o3_mMW8bUE1ugo9HF5NXTl5Coe-GXPNIBi2F_o24rrnkNk59yder0Tn377KjyOaY3TY9tHnfqkxDfUNF6vPhQqhUldYY/s1600-h/vietnam+1208.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403265214124157682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 216px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLLMiw3iM8bFWkDleOep0uLQufDDXDcjsGHa0u2g7U2vmpaPI8o3_mMW8bUE1ugo9HF5NXTl5Coe-GXPNIBi2F_o24rrnkNk59yder0Tn377KjyOaY3TY9tHnfqkxDfUNF6vPhQqhUldYY/s320/vietnam+1208.JPG" border="0" /></a> These are scenes from everyday life in Vietnam in September 2009</div><div>They were an inspiration for my mini landscapes and instilled in me an even greater respect for the Vietnamese People.<br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-HWzS86lN8Bxm4hGuBoiZKhPgDh0231DSfuD17ExIMFOg_re3jJxaBCdJeVACeNU8VSP8IqMRCbajgKJIV35XwFp8uqzbTn4VsQyCMEtP7JG9envKh9aEqMfP0Q11vY7T7dAfCJuBdq5/s1600-h/vietnam_191.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403264881305026594" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 142px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-HWzS86lN8Bxm4hGuBoiZKhPgDh0231DSfuD17ExIMFOg_re3jJxaBCdJeVACeNU8VSP8IqMRCbajgKJIV35XwFp8uqzbTn4VsQyCMEtP7JG9envKh9aEqMfP0Q11vY7T7dAfCJuBdq5/s320/vietnam_191.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-ADm6tBLrn7QGWpR2I47TjB38sRZlDw0lA5Y9U5vzaNp5CAk5rL1hrv9KJ9X4d5sbo2g06kVf3BLTVOFb4epP6WwGPB1y2xnWahGIxjTqlr9B-ZInxgP9nUYCHVZIr2wkfkc7cJ6H11u/s1600-h/vietnam_500.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403264618776360994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-ADm6tBLrn7QGWpR2I47TjB38sRZlDw0lA5Y9U5vzaNp5CAk5rL1hrv9KJ9X4d5sbo2g06kVf3BLTVOFb4epP6WwGPB1y2xnWahGIxjTqlr9B-ZInxgP9nUYCHVZIr2wkfkc7cJ6H11u/s320/vietnam_500.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8CkT2Xk1hjBXAc5nKw6Yuysrw3-6HF-uEGGalVB4LrHjPoDZ-N_p8xzYLoQ8VEduNloRcpF2HaCewArxP5R5lPTMZbl-410pv2SFzIc04hOcYPIL9yGudXG1FwLXM1z1kCKSU4LQBSuo/s1600-h/vietnam_646.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403264364130781602" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8CkT2Xk1hjBXAc5nKw6Yuysrw3-6HF-uEGGalVB4LrHjPoDZ-N_p8xzYLoQ8VEduNloRcpF2HaCewArxP5R5lPTMZbl-410pv2SFzIc04hOcYPIL9yGudXG1FwLXM1z1kCKSU4LQBSuo/s320/vietnam_646.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRym2n63WQWSZmnukiiUEYet4KHOlQIggnQOXpNNWHLrwIwi_rL1GA_4Z1haapuQT2SrJgj9DOV0dTY1wrQCHPVdJCXOsObKLE5g5lG5TZIY_nK_lTtSPuzoMTFn_2aKo_l5OHHbBum5c/s1600-h/vietnam_705.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403264072883657234" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRym2n63WQWSZmnukiiUEYet4KHOlQIggnQOXpNNWHLrwIwi_rL1GA_4Z1haapuQT2SrJgj9DOV0dTY1wrQCHPVdJCXOsObKLE5g5lG5TZIY_nK_lTtSPuzoMTFn_2aKo_l5OHHbBum5c/s320/vietnam_705.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqx3MbDGXRU_FvR6_ZsZjokJgpz4t4mZmDToI0CNsBZTnnRAWLnd9PYReK-zwlv28CRjMEp70VB5JPBF9WAE6dUkF9vOOiKX8hYd3CPt60oCZISAdrV7ZDNxT97XQYHxLnaYMYzUzVbQso/s1600-h/vietnam_1197.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403263817538393762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqx3MbDGXRU_FvR6_ZsZjokJgpz4t4mZmDToI0CNsBZTnnRAWLnd9PYReK-zwlv28CRjMEp70VB5JPBF9WAE6dUkF9vOOiKX8hYd3CPt60oCZISAdrV7ZDNxT97XQYHxLnaYMYzUzVbQso/s320/vietnam_1197.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKnO1g1YQ1xbCruy_WKPgY7iKjx9u1h5_-bzDUjqfaeoxz7Iz0H__Nu1_H8UWpOoURDgldCoCJlPg3VDsZfIHOJ8q7QASBQ4D1J5z0z6Hg_oi8kLJoMKmdtv8VSH_RK09mJXUjFde0NAqH/s1600-h/vietnam_1211.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403263529376967058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKnO1g1YQ1xbCruy_WKPgY7iKjx9u1h5_-bzDUjqfaeoxz7Iz0H__Nu1_H8UWpOoURDgldCoCJlPg3VDsZfIHOJ8q7QASBQ4D1J5z0z6Hg_oi8kLJoMKmdtv8VSH_RK09mJXUjFde0NAqH/s320/vietnam_1211.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-52784815036301691102009-10-31T14:31:00.000-07:002009-10-31T14:36:10.027-07:00Tanya SeifertTanya Seifert, my older niece has done a number of gigs to hear her wonderful voice go to:<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/tanyaseifert">www.myspace.com/tanyaseifert</a>Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786151302031629578.post-86766049083614038882009-10-31T04:12:00.000-07:002009-10-31T14:40:30.157-07:00Blog authors note: Jacobs Ladder was originally established on Kibbutz Machanayim in the upper Galilee<br /><br />A Message from the founder Menachem Vinograd<br />Dear Folks<br />It would seem that our website has been hijacked. We hope this is a temporary<br />situation and we will soon get it under control.In the meantime anyone wishing to order tickets for the Winter Weekend can do so by phone, Sun -Thursday 10.00 am - 13.00 hrs.04-6850403.We have a fabulous program lined up, with Hans Theessink the Bluesmaster fromHolland, and Michael J and Band from the USA .<br />Michael is the USA's foremost Tribute to Johnny Cash artist.There are many more artists, workshops and sing-alongs lined up.There are a few hotel rooms left at Ginnosar, so book now - 04-6700320 Wishing you all a Peaceful, Healthy and Musical New YearMenachem & Yehudit Jacob's Ladder Winter Weekend Nof Ginnosar December 4th&5th 2009Arikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07911234057899124613noreply@blogger.com0