I started BJJ after doing Kung Fu for about 15 years, including reaching an instructor level in Wing Chun under Rick Spain. At first, it seemed that the Wing Chun principles I had learned in my previous training were applicable to everything in BJJ. After a long time (IIRC after I got my blue belt) I found…
Category: Wing Chun
The real problem with Wing Chun, and the solütion
Long and heartrending are the lamentations about the sorry state and fractured nature of Wing Chun. The reasons given are many, but the solutions proposed few and sorry. Wing Chun needs a tougher image. The pathetic adherence to antedeluvian cultural associations and wishy-washy attempts to make it into some new age pussified version of the…
How to succeed at 21st Century Wing Chun
In response to some unoriginal and repetitive posts from Wing Chun-converted-to-MMA zealots on another forum: How to succeed at 21st Century Wing Chun YOUR AIM Too many delusional losers – who we on the 21st Century Wing Chun Internet Jury (21CWCIJ) call Clueless Theoreticians (CTs) – believe the end game of training is to learn…
The History and Philosophy of Wing Chun Kung Fu
Thesis for Level Ten Grading Andrew Nerlich student of Sifu Rick Spain, WWCKFA. Disclaimer: Since this essay was written, my instructor parted company with the WWCKFA. Also, vast amounts of new historical information on Wing Chun have come to light. What is presented here is both the WWCKFA party line, best not swallowed uncritically,…
The Perils of Wing Chun History
(I published this first on the KFO forum in response to a particularly vituperative and ridiculous Wing Chun history argument). Wing Chun history was driving me way past the Outer Limits of sanity. I was arguing with people I’d never met over the internet. I know I know, winning an argument on the internet is…
Bil Jee
Jee Sim was relaxing in a hammock below deck after a hard day’s cooking, drilling the crew of the Red Junks in Wing Chun, and inciting anti-Qing sentiment amongst the port workers. The sacking of the Shaolin Temple remained the focus of his thoughts. As it always did, even after so many months. The heat,…