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WONG WINGS BACK
Author: Wing Chun Pai
THE AUSTRALASIAN Wing-Chun Pai is proud to announce the impending return of Grandmaster Wong Shun Leong to Sydney, Melbourne and Geelong for a series of seminars in September. This unique series on all aspects of Wing Chun Kung Fu will be ideally suited to Martial Artists practising Wing Chun, teaching Wing Chun, or other stylists wanting to learn Wing Chun from an authoritative and credible source.
Grandmaster Wong Shun Leong remains one of the most knowledgeable teachers of Wing Chun Kung Fu in the world today. Many people credited him for helping the late Martial Artist superstar Bruce Lee in the latter's formative years. Recently, Wong Sifu has been travelling the world, helping many martial artists and Wing Chun practitioners in their quest for mastery of this superb art. In Europe alone, especially in Germany, England and Switzerland, hundreds annually flock to his seminars.
Fortunately, Australia is also on his itinerary this year. This won't be his first trip to Sydney. In fact, Wong Sifu came here twice before and all those who attended his previous seminars will probably remember how enjoyable and worthwhile his presentations were. Leading Australian Wing Chun teacher, David Peterson, founder and chief instructor of the Melbourne Chinese Martial Arts Club and a protege of Wong Sifu, will be accompanying the Grandmaster and will host the seminars in Melbourne and Geelong.
Wong Sifu believes we should be the masters of Wing Chun Kung Fu - and not the other way round ... The essence of Wing Chun lies in simplicity, scientific common sense and pure pragmatism. Therefore, Wing Chun is definitely more a devastating self-defence skill than an aesthetic Martial Art. It also follows that learning the whole Wing Chun system should not take more than 5 years, with an average 2 to 3 times per week training. Our modern lifestyle is really different from the traditional Chinese scene. It would be ridiculous to expect the average person to spend more than 10 years just to learn the system, let alone mastering it.
Not surprisingly, this phitosophy is also central to the Australasian Wing Chun Pai. Progress, development and never-ending improvement in Wing Chun Kung Fu are based on resonable and realistic adaptation to our immediate current environment. The Pai is a friendly and open platform for alllikeminded Wing Chun practitioners to enjoy and improve themselves. The spirit and atmosphere of glasnost and perestroika are hallmarks of the Pai. Wong Sifu's seminars will thus reflect these qualitIes.
The seminars will be held on the 21st and 22nd in Melbourne and Geelong, and the 26th to the 28th of September in Sydney. Participants may elect to come on only certain days. The seminars will not be the sit-down-listen type. The Pai expects everyone to participate in the physical learning of Wing Chun skills. These are action seminars. Essentially, the seminars are broken into three types. The foundation basics seminars, which are open to everyone: These include the first Form and applications. The intermediate Chum Q Form, Chi Sau and applications series are more for the experienced practitioners and other Martial Artists, although everyone is welcome to join. Then the explosive Biu Ji form series, which are for Martial Arts afficionados, instructors and the really serious beginners. Other classes on the weapons and the Dummy Form will also be available, probably on a private one-to-one basis.
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