Hong Kong 2024
This year, I’ve been practicing Wing Tsun for 20 years, and I’ve always wanted to discover the city where my […]
Wing Chun
Leung Ting Wing Tsun in the 1970s
I present you here an article from Black Belt magazine from January 1975, entitled Wing Chun: Hong Kong’s Scientific Art,
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The Red Boat Opera : From Legend to Wing Chun History
In previous posts, including those on The legend and reality behind the Southern Shaolin Monastery, A Brief History of the
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The Black Belt’s Yip Ching interview
I present here an interview of Yip Ching, published in July 1995 in the Black Belt magazine [1]. This interview
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The Northerner Master versus the Wing Chun clan of Fatshan
In this post, I would like to revisit an event that happened in Fatshan 佛山 (Foshan in Mandarin) in the
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Wing Chun Jo Fen 詠春祖訓 : The Ancestral Rules
In the 1950s, Yip Man established 9 rules of conduct known as 詠春祖訓 Ving Tsun Jo Fen (according to the
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Fighting against multiple opponents : difficult but trainable
In self-defense, one versus one is already difficult. One versus many is more so, that’s undeniable. In a dynamic of
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The origins of Wing Chun by Yip Man
Below is the manuscript written by Yip Man 葉問 around 1965/66, in which the old Master recounts the origins of
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Should we write “Ip Man” or “Yip Man” ?
April 22, 2024 I’m revising this post today. As I wrote 4 years ago, when I first started posting on
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Wing Chun, Ving Tsun, Wing Tsun… where do these different terminologies come from ?
October 2, 2023. I’m revising this post today, something I should have done a long time ago. Not speaking Cantonese,
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