Weekend Workshops

[Da_Moose]

Shaolin Weng/Wing Chun Workshop
Presented by the Ving Tsun Museum

We had a great workshop last weekend in San Francisco with almost forty participants. Students came from Texas; NYC; Rochester, New York; Dayton & Cincinnati, Ohio; Kansas City, Missouri; Pheonix, Arizona. This was the 10th Public HFY Workshop and also a birthday celebration for GM Gee. More details will be posted later as to what the workshop covered.

This weekend (April 3) in Dayton, the VTM will host another Shaolin Weng/Wing Chun workshop. After several years of successive workshops on both Chi Sim Weng Chun and Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun, this workshop will present information culled from both systems. This one-day workshop will present fundamental information on both Shaolin Weng/Wing Chun systems.

Topics will include:
1) History & Origins of Shaolin Weng/Wing Chun
2) Comparisons between Chi Sim and Hung Fa Yi
3) Key Concepts of Chi Sim and Hung Fa Yi
4) Comparison between Shaolin Weng/Wing Chun and Modern Wing Chun & the reason for variations in Wing Chun

Date: April 3, 2004
Time: 9:30-4:30, 1 hr lunch
Cost:
Members
$40 Pre-registration; $65 At the door

Non-Members
$50 Pre-registration; $75 At the door

For information and registration, contact
Ving Tsun Museum
5715 Brandt Pike
Dayton, OH 45424
(937) 236-6485
host@vtmuseum.org

[canglong]

How did things go Moose?

[Da_Moose]

The workshop was both very informative and fun. There wer about an hour or so of lectures on the differences between Chi Sim and Hung Fa Yi before we worked out. Heaven, Man & Earth were the main topics covered, as well as some detail history of each system, how they correlate and then branch separately out with the destruction of the Southern Temple. From there some comparisons were made between the two systems initial training methodologies, illustrating key differences and similarities such as body methods compared to formula training. After that some core concepts of shared by each system were discussed, chiefly the concepts of H, M, E.

Physical training consisted of half an hour or so of Fa Kuen, drilling and teaching the shapes of the form to everyone as a warm up. After that, we focused the rest of the time on Jung Sin Jong Sau. We practiced our structures solo and then with partners, eventually adding in Taan Da to the mix. Practice on the Jongs was also part of the training that day, learing the first four movements of the Jong Form and their applications. Jung Sin Jong Sau was then played from a rooted position, then from a more liveley positions as our opponents upped the ante by moving around and throwing less predictable punches, allowing us to practice the applications learned in the Jong Form. Sifu Meng then brielfy covered some of the applications of Jong Sai within Don Chi Sai exercises. We practiced these for about another half an hour or so before finishing up and repeating the cycle again for reinforcement.

All in all, it was an enjoyable day of kung fu.

Steve