HFY Wing Chun Kung Fu Association annual workshop March 23-25 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

[Savi]

I am passing along this information regarding the annual HFY workshop hosted by the WHFYWCKFA/HFY headquarters and Grandmaster Garrett Gee:

Originally posted by Allen Kong

All,

The World Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kung Fu Association will host its annual workshop at the HFY Headquarters in San Francisco, CA (March 23-25, 2012)

Grandmaster Garrett Gee will conduct the 4th workshop covering the HFYWC Chi Sao (theories and applications). The workshop is open to all HFY members, all branches of Wing Chun, and all local martial artists that have interest in the art of HFY Wing Chun.

There will be a dinner party saturday night, celebrating Grandmaster Garrett Gee's birthday.

(tentative) schedule
Friday 3/23 7-11pm meet/greet workshop start
Saturday 3/24 8-4pm workshop
Saturday 3/24 6-9pm dinner party
Sunday 3/25 9-noon workshop

For those interested in attending, email or post on this thread for more information.

regards,

Allen Kong
Director - Hung Fa Kwoons
World Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kung Fu Association
Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun World Headquarters
219 Monterey Blvd.
San Francisco, California 94131 USA
akong88888@gmail.com
www.HungFaKwoon.com

email for all inquiries regarding Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun domestic/international affairs, training programs, and workshops/seminars

Additional information:

Originally posted by Eric

Since 1975, for the last 37 years, all the way up until today, our Sifu, Grandmaster Garrett Gee has been teaching Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kung Fu. In all this time, 8 generations of students have been trained, totaling over 1000 individual members. However, as most of our members over the years have been training more in a sense of “passing through” or intermittent workshop attendance rather than as hardcore disciples of the system, training over the last several decades has focused mostly on Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun free sparring techniques.

Now, at this historical workshop in Arizona, Grandmaster Gee will introduce to the public the Kiu Sao Chi Sao of the Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun core system. Unlike Tahn/Bong/Fook style of Chi Sao which focuses primarily on two handed trapping, Kiu Sao Chi Sao is all about how to engage with different styles' structure. The 8-point Kiu Sao Chi Sao answers the question of “how as a wing chun person can I engage a grappler or a boxer using only my bridging arm?” This type of training is driven by the technologies in the opening and first section of our Siu Nim Tao Form:
Moving from Nowhere to Somewhere (Engagement)
Occupy Space Concept
Saam Sing Jong 3-triangle structure

In the past, I have seen many Wing Chun systems with variations in the opening of their forms, usually the hands crossing, flipping, coming high or staying low. Whenever asked about it, most wing chun practitioners point to a technique as the answer such as “This is Gahn Sao”, or “Huen Sao” or “Jiang Dai Lik” depending on the lineage. For Hung Fa Yi Wing chun practitioners this is not the case as the precise opening of our Siu Nim Tao form points to the underlying Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun formula. To see the difference between Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Siu Nim Tao alongside another WC lineage view the video at http://vimeo.com/35817461 and see if you can pinpoint the differences.

Having seen a preview of this material under the roof of our Sifu, I highly encourage any members past or present to attend this workshop and gain an insight into the system core of Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kuen.

[Eric_H]

Today we have just finished wrapping up the March 2012 Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun San Francisco workshop on Kiu Sao Chi Sao. This extensive layer of training covers how to engage an opponent and deny entry from both boxing and wrestling systems. A full writeup on this workshop is coming soon, along with announcements for more Kiu Sao Chi Sao workshops coming in the rest of 2012!

[Eric_H]

This past weekend, March 23rd-25th 2012, the Hung Fa Kwoon of San Francisco hosted the annual workshop and birthday celebration for our Sifu, Grandmaster Garrett Gee. Starting around 6pm Friday night, Sifu Gee took us through the ideas behind Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kiu Sao Chi Sao, important concepts in the Siu Nim Tao Form, the strategies that guide dealing with boxing and grappling systems, and the possibility of Kiu Sao dealing with both. It could be said that the theme of Kiu Sao Chi Sao in layman’s terms is “How to engage all other styles using Wing Chun.”

Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kiu Sao Chi Sao in itself is comprised of twelve major areas, 5 elbows, 4 corners, and 3 strike linking set. Each area offering a piece of how to have your bridging arm form an effective engagement and stay alive against different types of challenge. This workshop focused primarily on the Four Corner Kiu Sao, working with the different expressions of Fook Sao in Kiu Sao Chi Sao: Fook Kiu, Heun Kiu, Leet Kiu, Jut Kiu, and Chum Kiu.



(From Left to Right: Chum Kiu, Jut Kiu, Fook Kiu, Heun Kiu, Leet Kiu)
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Read the full review here

[Eric_H]

Also of note is that after the completion of the March 2012 Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun workshop, our Sifu, Grandmaster Garrett Gee has decided to open Wu Dang Sword training to the general public from Hung Fa Yi Headquarters. As a representative of the famous Wu Dang kung fu clan as taught by his father, Grandmaster Peter Kim Ho Chu, Grandmaster Gee has a large library of styles to offer for training.

Grandmaster Gee has decided to focus specifically on weapons because most schools only allow you to learn that type of training after 5-6 years or a form only, and in his opinion that is why many of the traditional weapons are dying out. Our school is one of the rare ones that allows you to train weaponry at any time, from day one if you wish, with full application and sword sparring sections, not just form.

The pilot sword program has been running for the last few years in the San Francisco and Arizona locations and is now ready for the gates to be opened fully, we are very excited for the launch of this program!