WC in Beijing and Shanghai

[rindge]

Folks, I'm heading over to Beijing and Shanghai at the end of the month and would like to visit any local WC schools. I may not be in Beijing long enough to squeeze in a visit, but I can find time while in Shanghai. Anyone know of any school that welcome visitors in those areas?

Thanks in advance

Rindge

[CFT]

Peter Hsu in Shanghai (Wong Shun Leung -> Gary Lam)

http://www.phwingchun.com/

[HardWork8]

Folks, I'm heading over to Beijing and Shanghai at the end of the month and would like to visit any local WC schools. I may not be in Beijing long enough to squeeze in a visit, but I can find time while in Shanghai. Anyone know of any school that welcome visitors in those areas?

Thanks in advance

Rindge

Try googling "wing chun in shanghai" and perhaps you can find more info. If I were you, then I would take this opportunity to train in a non-Yip Man mainland Chinese lineage just to see the other aspects of this art that may not be present in the Hong Kong version.

[rindge]

cft, I dropped pete an email last night.

I will also try the tried true google method.

Thanks

[Phil Redmond]

Hi Rindge, I hope you enjoy your time in Shanghai.
Remember the Gambling Ghost movie you sent me? Well check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djawlBDJEvA

[junmo]

Petes not gonna be here - he's heading back to LA next week for 3 to 4 months....however me and the other masochists will be training in the Shanghai heatwave...your welcome to join us in the park...

[junmo]

There's one other guy teching WC here in Shanghai, though he's away more often than not for business...he's got a student doing most of the training...the styles southern mainland....there's a WSL guy whose pretty solid in beijing.

After being here for 3.5 years I'm seeing more arts appearing in the main cities, where unless you're training with a phys ed collage are pretty thin on the ground. Art of War in beijing are running MMA comps and traning...alot of Muay thai, BBJ appearing in Shanghai now, plus the regular park goers doing YiChuan, Hsing yi, bagua, etc

[rindge]

Petes not gonna be here - he's heading back to LA next week for 3 to 4 months....however me and the other masochists will be training in the Shanghai heatwave...your welcome to join us in the park...

Junmo, I just heard back from Pete about him not being there. I'd love to train with you guys. I will be staying at the at Astor House Hotel No 15 Huangpu Road Shanghai. Is that close to the park you train at? When do you train? Also, any contact info for the WSL gent in Beijing?

[rindge]

Hi Rindge, I hope you enjoy your time in Shanghai.
Remember the Gambling Ghost movie you sent me? Well check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djawlBDJEvA

Phil, I forgot about that movie. Thanks fo rposting that clip, horrible film, but very good WC clip. Hope all is well. I am enjoying my time with Sifu Cottrells School.

Rindge

[GeneChing]

"2,000-year-old martial art" At least the dummy looks well used...

Residents battling rogue management firms learn martial arts to fend off paid thugs
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 12:26pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 9:08pm
James Griffiths james.griffiths@scmp.com


Still from 2013 film 'Ip Man: The Final Fight', based on the life of the legendary wing chun grandmaster. Photo: Screenshot

Residents in the satellite town of Yanjiao, Hebei province, have taken up the ancient Chinese martial art of wing chun to protect themselves from armed thugs hired by a rogue property management firm to intimidate them.

Located at the nexus of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei triangle, Yanjiao, a mere 35 kilometres from Tiananmen Square, is in something of an administrative “limbo zone”. Proximate to Beijing but under Hebei’s jurisdiction, its apparent status as a grey area has led to a lack in government oversight.

According to The Beijing News, several property management firms have taken advantage of this situation, charging extortionate fees, turning public space into parking spots and sending thugs to beat up and intimidate residents when they complained.

“We were afraid [of the thugs], we didn’t have any experience in fighting back,” tenant Ren Yongmei told the newspaper.

Unprotected by authorities, residents came up with an innovative way of (literally) fighting back: by learning a 2,000-year-old martial art. In August, tenants enlisted local wing chun enthusiast Ma Lianhua to them how to defend themselves.

This plan did not go unnoticed by the property developers, and after Ma began teaching classes, he was viciously beaten by a number of armed thugs.


Ma Lianhua trains in Yanjiao. Photo: Beijing News

After the attack, Ma decided to enlist some expert help. A 60-year-old wing chun master surnamed Pang came down from Beijing accompanied by three disciples.

Pang’s lessons attracted hundreds of residents, and the thugs did not dare intervene.

When thugs confronted Ma again, and began beating him, the situation was very different. Residents surrounded them, and eventually police stepped in to arrest thug leader Rong Xuefeng, for his own safety.

After Rong was arrested, property managers and officials held a meeting during which the head of one company apologised to locals for their mistreatment and voiced his support for establishing an owners’ committee to lobby managers on behalf of residents.

“We’re not opposed to paying management fees, if they provide the appropriate services, we’ll pay the appropriate money,” Ma said, though he is still practicing wing chun, just in case.

[zuti car]

there is a cheung bo lineage school in Shanghai I will try to find the locaion

[BPWT..]

I think LFJ is based in Shanghai.

[LFJ]

eventually police stepped in to arrest thug leader Rong Xuefeng, for his own safety.

That makes total sense...

[LFJ]

there is a cheung bo lineage school in Shanghai I will try to find the locaion

Hmm, I know which one that is. I saw a couple years ago the instructor drew some heat for telling people Westerners can't do Wing Chun as well as Chinese, against a foreign guy who was running a WT school and doing pretty well. He was then invited to an open ring contest with rules of his choice to prove his point. Then he went quiet. Personally, from what I've seen, his style looked weird and terribly impractical. Probably why he ran away after being called out for running his (racist) mouth.

[zuti car]

Hmm, I know which one that is. I saw a couple years ago the instructor drew some heat for telling people Westerners can't do Wing Chun as well as Chinese, against a foreign guy who was running a WT school and doing pretty well. He was then invited to an open ring contest with rules of his choice to prove his point. Then he went quiet. Personally, from what I've seen, his style looked weird and terribly impractical. Probably why he ran away after being called out for running his (racist) mouth.

Strange , I know this guy had some western students .

Here is the web address

http://www.vingtsun.org.cn/jyt/

http://www.longwukungfu.com/