Wing Chun Animation
Thought you guys would like this one.
Its an animation of a robot torso performing Wing Chun techniques against a wooden dummy. The piece was done by Anthony Mcgrath.
Enjoy!
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International Wing Chun Day Announced
International Wing Chun Day is a day set aside to honor Wing Chun in all its forms including Wing Tsun, WingTsun, Ving Tsun, Jeet Kune Do, JKD, Weng Chun, Yong Chun, Jun Fan Gung Fu, Hung Fa Yi, Shaolin Wing Chun, Vinh Xuan and many more.
Wing Chun schools can use this day as a way to promote the art and their classes. Celebrations include Wing Chun exhibitions and free classes offered by Wing Chun schools across the world.
Let the world know your support for International Wing Chun Day on Facebook and click "attending".
Visit the official page of the International Wing Chun Day.
Note: 2010 is the first year of this annual day which will be held the 3rd Saturday of March each year.
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Bruce Lee & Kobe Bryant
Here’s the text from the recent article from ESPN.com detailing Kobe Bryant’s study of Bruce Lee's martial way. Kobe has a new shoe inspired by Bruce Lee.
From ESPN.com:
In addition to soccer, Bryant has also used martial arts to help him on the basketball court. He is an avid Bruce Lee fan and practices the hybrid fighting system and life philosophy that Lee founded in 1967 called Jeet Kune Do or, in English, “The way of the intercepting fist.” It’s an offensive system based on striking first and always visualizing where your opponent will go next. Much like in basketball, there are gestures and half gestures to make your opponents move in Jeet Kune Do, allowing you to hit your opponents on their preparation or intention to hit you.
“The art and the philosophy that [Lee] was in the process of teaching, Jeet Kune Do, is a philosophy that I try to play by,” Bryant said. “It’s an instinctual art. A lot of times in martial arts you have all these rules and regimens and basketball is the same way, everybody is taught these fundamentals, but to me you start from a base and work your way up and the defense has a hard time defending you because they don’t know what you’re doing because you don’t know what you’re doing.”
Bryant is such a fan of Lee that he dedicated one of his shoes to him. The yellow and black color of the shoe are taken from Lee’s jumpsuit in “The Game of Death,” and it has the four blood-red claw marks from Lee’s wounds in “Enter The Dragon” on each side.
“I draw so much inspiration from him and everything that he embodied,” Bryant said of Lee. “The perfection of his craft to me was something that was extremely inspirational. To be able to get to a point where you are so good at your craft that you can actually perform it thoughtlessly is something that’s still a mystery to me but something that I strive for and something that he inspired me to try and strive for.”
No one was happier to hear that Bryant was carrying on the legacy of Lee more than Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, the president of the Bruce Lee Foundation. She was Bryant’s guest at the Lakers-Clippers game last week and was sitting in the front row as he dedicated a shoe in honor of her father.
“It means everything for an athlete of his caliber to say that,” Lee said. “My father was such an amazing athlete and so concerned about all the things Kobe was talking about: footwork, having no mind when you’re out there doing your craft and being in that ready mode. The fact that he sees that and can take that from my father is terrific. He would have been a big fan of his, too.”
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Inaugural Enrollment
We are pleased to have the opportunity to offer Inaugural Enrollment to The Dragon Institute.
Inaugural members are a distinct group of members on the ground floor of our exciting new endeavor. These select members will be given secured placement in the institute's inaugural class and will have active membership for a full year of training with tuition of $1100 paid upfront - a huge discount off the regular membership price. However, Inaugural Enrollment can only be offered to 20 individuals.
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Ask Sifu Adam
Question:
After a good amount of research, I've learned that Wing Chun Kung Fu is one of today's most effective martial arts for realistic self-defense. I want to learn self-defense but what other benefits does Wing Chun offer?
Answer:
I get a lot of questions like this. People want to learn how to fight and they want to learn something good for the street rather than for sport. Others are interested in Wing Chun because they want to learn the art that Bruce Lee studied.
As the owner of Orange County's first institution dedicated to the art of Wing Chun, I am extremely lucky to be able to share the art that has given me more than I could ever ask. This provides me the unique opportunity to transfer ownership of the secret knowledge hidden within the art of Wing Chun - empowering people with the same unique self-development tools that have guided me.
These tools include strategies and principles universal to fighting as well as everyday life. It includes healthy posture, stress relief, learning to remain relaxed in the most chaotic of times, tools for fighting fatigue and keeping your energy levels at their optimum levels. In addition, Wing Chun opens your mind to new possibilities, you gain a higher level of self-awareness, develop cat-like reflexes, attain an uncommon level of balance and learn to get rid of the unessentials and simplify your life.
Basically, unlocking hidden potential is what I do... not just highly effective self-defense :)
Sifu Adam Williss
The Dragon Institute 龙研究所
34241 Pacific Coast Highway
Dana Point, CA 92629
949.939.4117
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