Wing Chun World Wide Seminar Series
Marty
World Wing Chun Seminar Tour
with
Master William Cheung
World renowned Wing Chun master William Cheung will be
conducting a world wide seminar tour promoting the art of Traditional
Wing Chun. Covered will be a multitude of topics, to be listed below.
In addition to the main seminar which will consist of two days, there
will be two smaller seminars on specific topics.
World Seminar Tour
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Of main topic will be a first time seen special Chi Sao drill. The seminar
is suitable for beginning to advanced students. Other topics:
1. Theory and principles of Wing Chun.
2. History and Philosophy of Wing Chun
3. Forms - Shil Lim Tao, Chum Kil, and Bil Jee: How to train
and applications.
4. Reflexes: Chi Sao, Advanced Chi Sao, Cross arm Chi Sao, Eye reflexes,
eye exercises.
5. Improvement of co-ordination, balance, timing, accuracy, speed and
power.
6. Footwork and fighting strategies.
7. Wing Chun take downs - sweeps, scissors, and wrist lock, arm lock,
elbow lock, hammer lock, etc.
8. Meridian and pressure points.
9. Wooden Dummy techniques and applications.
10. Training for punches, palms, kicks, inch punch and ghost kick.
11. Weapons: Butterfly Swords, Dragon Pole.
12. Techniques against kicks, i.e. leg breaks, pressure points, offensive
blocks.
13. Techniques against multiple attackers.
14. Against different disciplines of martial arts. Techniques against
weapon attack.
Cost: $65 a day. Private lessons are available for $120 per hour (by
appointment only. Locations of seminars and people to contact:
Date Location Contact & Telephone
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March 5,6 Manchester, London Sifu David Fairclough 44-772 632049
March 12,13 Leszek Starybrat, Adam Laskowski Alex Srokowski
Poland Ul. Wieceorka, Sc-8 12A Krajewskiego
47-232 Kzokiezyn Kozle 45-256 Opole
March 19,20 Paris, France Sifu Didier Beddar 33-1-48444129
March 26,27 Athens, Greece Sifu Mike Papantonakis 30-1-8951433
April 2,3,9 Alberta, Canada Sifu Brian Lewadney (403)243-1086
& 10. Toronto, Canada
April 16,17 Baltimore, Maryland Sifu Johnny Clayton (410)576-0835
April 23,24 New York Sifu Sonny Whitmore (919)963-7991
April 30, Kansas City Sifu George Vance (309)772-3412
May 1
Chi Breathing Seminar
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Topics include new techniques of Meridian Streching, also Chi
breathing and meditation topics.
Cost: $65. See listing above for locations and who to contact for more info.
4 hour seminar.
Dim Mak Seminar
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"For centuries the art of Dim Mak (striking the pressure points)
was treated as top secret, and was only passed on to a handful of people
from generation to generation. Because a lot of incorrect information
is circulating, Grandmaster Cheung has decided to conduct this seminar in order
to reveal the authentic knowledge of Dim Mak."
Cost: $80. 4 hour seminar, conducted on Friday evenings, 6-10pm. Locations
and dates:
London, Manchester March 4th
Paris, France March 18th
Athens, Greece March 25th
Alberta, Canada April 1st
Toronto, Canada April 8th
Baltimore April 15th
New York April 22nd
Kansas City April 29th
See first listing for who to contact.
About William Cheung:
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At the age of 10, William Cheung started his training in wing chun
kung fu under Yip Man. He was 14 when he decided to follow wing chun as a
way of life. He trained full-time under Yip Man's roof, and for the next
four years, wing chun took up all of his time. Between 1957 and 1958
Cheung won the kung fu elimination contests in Hong Kong, defeating opponents
with many more years experience. Childhood friend of the late Bruce Lee,
Cheung brought Bruce to Yip Man to begin his wing chun training in 1953,
and the two remained close friends until the latter's death in 1973.
From 1959 when he arrived in Australia to pursue his academic studies,
Cheung organized small informal groups interested in the arts. However, after
the death of his master, Yip Man, in 1973 marked a turning point in his life.
He decided that the traditional taboo placed on the teaching of wing chun to
non-Chinese was an anachronistic and unjustifiable xenophobia. Accordingly, he
formed the first wing chun kung fu school in Australia in which the full extent
of the Chinese art was taught to Australians of both Chinese and Anglo Saxon
extraction.
Cheung was appointed as a Chief Instructor to the U.S. Seventh Fleet
based in Yukosuka, Japan, and served in that capacity from 1978-1980. During
this time, he was in charge of the intensive program of close quarter combat
for the marines.
Many of Cheung's students have achieved international recognition for
their martial arts prowess. In 1982 his students won both the heavyweight and
middleweight divisions in the World Invitation Kung Fu Championships held in
Hong Kong. Further, Cheung himself was awarded the 1983 Black Belt Hall of
Fame Award as Kung Fu Artist of the Year.
In 1984 William Cheung set the world speed punching record of 8.3
punches per second at Harvard University in Boston. Each punch was recorded
as having 165 pounds of force. He has also been engaged in research and
development to improve training and execution of techniques in Wing Chun, and
has been the first in his field to apply advanced biomechanical methods such
as high speed filming and computer technology in an attempt to empirically
analyze the movements of the art of wing chun kung fu.
For any immediate questions that need to be answered about the seminars,
or any questions on Traditional Wing Chun, or even to say hello, just drop
me a line at:
Marty
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World Wing Chun Kung Fu Association
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David Kheng Eng
Ian Kerr
If you want to come to the Toronto Wing Chung seminar the phone number
you should phone is (416) 971-7411. We have (or should have one by
monday) an answering machine. So just call up leave name, number that
sort of thing and we will get back to you ASAP.
Thanks.
Ian Kerr.
er...@met.com
What was the purpose of replying to the advertisment, quoting the whole
thing, nt writing anything?
Jeffrey Achtnig
much money I can spare) and would like the opinions of anyone who has
already attended the seminars (any of the three). Thanks in advance.
Jeff.