Classes
Wing Chun Kung Fu, three hours a training day
The same ladder runs every training day: beginners at the start of the evening, sticky hands in the middle, senior students last. Train one, two or three days a week.
The art
What Wing Chun is
Wing Chun is a system of southern Chinese Kung Fu which specializes in close range combat. It was created nearly 200 years ago by a Buddhist nun from the legendary Shaolin Temple. The nun later taught her system to a young girl named Yim Wing Chun. The name Wing Tsun translates as ‘Beautiful Springtime.’
It is the art Bruce Lee started in, and the one taught here — the only one taught here. More on Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do.
Mon – Thu 6 – 7 pm · Sat 10 – 11 am
Basic
The beginners’ hour, and it runs every single training day so you can start the week you decide to. You will spend it on the things the rest of the system is built out of: how to stand, how to hold the center line, how to punch without winding up, and the opening form. No prior training is assumed and no one is thrown in at the deep end.
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Mon – Thu 7 – 8 pm · Sat 11 am – 12 noon
Intermediate
The middle hour is where Wing Chun starts to feel like Wing Chun. Chi Sau — sticky hands — puts you arm-to-arm with a partner and trains the reflexes to feel an opening rather than see it. This is the hour visitors tend to stand and watch: two people moving fast, in contact, without either of them swinging.
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Mon – Thu 8 – 9 pm · Sat 12 – 1 pm
Advanced / Black Belt
The last hour of the day’s ladder belongs to the senior students; the schedule calls it Advanced / Black Belt. The hall has a mook jong — the wooden dummy — and the classical weapons on the wall, so expect work of that kind alongside the applications behind the forms. Call to ask what the hour you are coming to is covering.
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