At Singapore Ip Man Ving Tsun Kuen
The 4 stages of confrontation we teach are
1. When to walk away or run away
2. When the first stage is not possible, when to control the person e.g a chin na(seizing) lock on body or choke to immobilise the person
3. When to use lightened Striking as a warning e.g a whipping pak sao to the arm or taps on targets that will break the persons will.
4. Striking to neutralise the target( we dont teach this unless they are instructors and we validate their martial virtues)
In stage 1. We recognise alot of fights or confrontations are not about life and death, but about the pride or ego or the fear of losing face. Many a time people feel insulted and by raising a hand, they feel they can redemn their pride or prove themselves to be the stronger man
Our training, we teach them to have real skills and pressure test them(6 attackers on 1) so that when its about ego and pride, they can and should always walk away because we have trained them to be a weapon. Liken to having a loaded gun. If you have a gun(hidden) on you and someone picks a fight with you over a trival thing like cutting your lane in driving, you can walk away, because that person had no idea he could have been killed, if he had known he was looking down a barrel of a gun, he would have with commonsense, walked away. We walk away empowered because we know its his lucky day and he should go buy the lottery- there is never a need to proof you could have taken the person out.
Its self awareness about who we are, what we can do, and our principles(martial and ethical virtues)
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Changes in Class Timing and Location
Starting 7 April, by popular demand and request, Singapore Ip Man Ving Tsun Kuen will have 2 classes 9am and 5pm
9 am Traditional Ip Man Ving Tsun Kuen
5pm Ip Man Ving Tsun Combatives
Please note the differences in Class timing, Fees, Criteria and type of class
For more details go to www.singaporewingchunkuen.com under FAQ
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Kwoon Rules of Conduct
国有国规 家有家规 馆有馆规
A country has laws, A family has rules, A kwoon has its code of conduct
武术虽然是一种武装力量，但是我们中国武术，是包含儒家的哲理，
武德，也就是仁，推已及人
Kwoon Rules of Singapore Ip Man Ving Tsun Kuen
1. Do not do any techniques from other schools of wingchun or other martial arts during training. You are to do the techniques as taught in the training. This is basic respect for the art and the Sifu.
Unsupervised techniques may also lead to serious injuries. *
2. Do not hurt your partner intentionally. *
3. Do not show uncontrolled aggression.
4. Do bow to the Sifu before and after class. Do bow to your training partners as a mark of respect.
5. Do address the teacher as Sifu during class.
6. Do wait for the Sifu to bow you in if you do not arrive on time.
7. Do not sit down or rest on the floor of the training ground unless granted permission
8. Do wear clean and proper uniforms for training.
9. Do not horseplay or talk loudly in the kwoon. If you wish to chit-chat or are not willing to do a particular exercise, please leave the floor so as not to distract others or short change your partners out of training time. Stay focused and disciplined.
10. Do behave as students during training and the Sifu will behave as a teacher, this is the reason why you enrolled in class- to learn.
These rules have come about to maintain 1. The Safety of all those who train with us 2. The code of conduct for proper and effective learning of traditional ving tsun kuen.
All rules are to be obeyed at all times, violation of these rules may lead to the following 1. A official reprimand 2. An official letter issued 3. Immediate Expulsion
Rules marked * if broken will lead to immediate expulsion.
I reserve the right to remove any student instantly who does not display the proper attitude of a student- Sifu Bertrand Lim
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