THE KUNG FU BLOG

In the second episode of my audio series, I'd like to bring up the idea of meaning for your training. Hold on with me and let's discuss it.

Training sometimes gets us to do work on something that we actually do not like. When you are training Martial Arts or Wing Chun or any style, there will have things you like training and other things that you don't like training. That is...

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If you are planning to succeed in your martial arts training, you have to sync your mind and your body goals.

When you are practicing day after day, is when you will realize how some elements are crucial to your development. The right martial arts mindset is one of them. It can not be based on your daily mood but it has to be based on a combination...

1. From a Wing Chun perspective, elbows are only used when given, which means if we can punch or palm strike with arm extension, then we would not use our elbows. We...

Hey everyone, today I would like to talk about the concept of "Flag Punches", introduced in the section of Chum Kil. Like all methods in Wing Chun, it is a concept, not a fixed technique.
This concept of Flag Punches is represented by an Upper Cut like a punch in the second section of the form.

The term "Flag Punches" in Chinese Gung Fu means, the ability to strike with the fist from any...

Chum Kil is the second form/level of Wing Chun. Chum in Cantonese means to search and Kil means a bridge. In Gung Fu, the bridge is referring to the forearms. The loose metaphor of searching the bridge means the ability to close the gap in a combative situation. Here are the things that Chum Kil teaches:

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1. Flag Punches - This is the ability to strike with the fist from...

Prevent is better than cure. Whenever we're attacked by any technique (ie Pac Sau, Lap Sau, Jum Sau, etc), we must prevent the next attack from launching instead of waiting for it to happen and then dealing with it. Sometimes we do this prevention simply by hitting, sometimes the moment does not allow just hitting so we can use checking ( ie. pushing, pulling his arm, chest, hips, etc); there...

We all know that moderation is the key, everyone knows balance is necessary but why is it so hard to do?

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A big part of anxiety and depression is a sense of meaninglessness. And, as the myth of the holy grail suggests, the hero's journey (the key to meaning, expressed in a million myths around the world) is a matter of gaining one’s power (symbolized by the grail) and then to...