Orange County Wing Chun

December 28th, 2012

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Orange County Wing Chun International Wing Chun Day 2013 By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

Forward energy refers to the Wing Chun practitioner's intention effort and concentration made, and maintained, in the direction of the opponent's center line. You should never attempt to move their opponent's limbs away from this center. Doing so would be considered "chasing hands", an attribute of poor Wing Chun execution. In addition, you should never allow yourself to be moved away from the center line. If you allowed this you would be out of position to defend or attack. Instead, you should always take both your energy and your opponent's energy to the opponent’s center.

Teacher Quotes By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

The 2013 International Wing Chun Day will be held on Saturday, March 16th, 2013.

Quotes about Teaching

International Wing Chun Day is a day set aside each year to help bring awareness to the martial art of Wing Chun.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather

Founded in 2010 as a way to further the art of Wing Chun, International Wing Chun Day was chosen during spring and determined to be held on the 3rd Saturday in March. It was first introduced on Facebook. In it's first year it was supported by 1100 Wing Chun practitioners worldwide.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren

The mission of International Wing Chun Day is to raise the level of awareness of the art of Wing Chun as a whole while educating the public of its benefits and local instruction in the individual communities surrounding Wing Chun schools.

The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. ~Leonard Nimoy

For more information, visit International Wing Chun Day on Facebook

Forward Energy By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ~Goethe

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ~Lao Tzu Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. ~Fulton J. Sheen In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann

Wing Chun is a concept-based art, rather than a techniquebased art. This means that there are specific universal concepts that guide a practitioner's movements and techniques. So if someone attacks you with a certain technique, you wouldn't just respond with a specific technique to counter him. You would employ Wing Chun concepts to respond to his "energy", not his technique. The technique you end up using to respond is simply an attribute of the concept. One concept we look to use at every opportunity is referred to as "forward energy".

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward

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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. ~William Glasser Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert Teachers touch the future. ~Author Unknown A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher. ~Aristotle Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. ~Aristotle The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. ~Tyron Edwards Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. ~Malcom Gladwel You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. ~Anonymous

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I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. ~Anne Lamott There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. ~John Hersey Education is improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. ~Marian Wright Edelman Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It is greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the world, than to rule a state. ~William Ellery Channing The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contended and happy. ~Anatole France For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening. ~Laurent A. Daloz Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn. ~Loris Malaguzzi

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ~Alexander the Great A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. ~Ruth Beechick True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. ~Allan Lokos The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. ~Joseph Campbell I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ~Robert Frost Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. ~Alfred North Whitehead 2

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Wing Chun Playground

Lee: That's it! How did it feel?

By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

[Student thinks; Lee smacks his head]

Lee: Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. [Looks at student who is looking at the finger; smacks student again] Lee: Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory! [Student bows; Lee smacks him again] Lee: Never take your eyes off your opponent... even when you're bowing!

Wing Chun Playground - Some playgrounds are much cooler than others © The Dragon Institute | Orange County | Wing Chun Kung Fu | 34241 Pacific Coast Highway | Dana Point, CA 92673 | ocwingchun.com | Orange County Martial Arts

We Need Emotional Content!

[Student bows again this time keeping his eyes on Lee] Lee: That's better. © The Dragon Institute | Orange County | Wing Chun Kung Fu | 34241 Pacific Coast Highway | Dana Point, CA 92673 | ocwingchun.com

Yip Man's Wing Chun Legacy By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

Lee: [a student approaches Lee; both bow] Kick me. [Student looks confused] Lee: Kick me. [Student attempts kick] Lee: What was that? An Exhibition? We need emotional content. Now try again! [Student tries again] Lee: I said "emotional content." Not anger! Now try again! [Student tries again and succeeds] 3

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One Inch Punch By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

Here is a shot of Bill Weaver demonstrating the one inch punch at our recent open house. Made famous by Bruce Lee, the one inch punch begins with your hand about a fist away from the target of the other person and explodes into them using a type of compact power in which Wing Chun is known for. © The Dragon Institute | Orange County | Wing Chun Kung Fu | 34241 Pacific Coast Highway | Dana Point, CA 92673 | ocwingchun.com

Kids Martial Arts By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

Young people tend to live up to what you believe of them. So we believe in them more than others think we should. We give more. Have more patience with them. Most of all we care more than others. That's why what we do is so special to us. © The Dragon Institute | Orange County | Wing Chun Kung Fu | 34241 Pacific Coast Highway | Dana Point, CA 92673 | ocwingchun.com

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Meditation By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that meditation is one of the most powerful ways to boost your immune system, intelligence, creativity, intuition, and overall happiness. But meditation isn't just sitting with your legs crossed and eyes closed. The ultimate form of meditation is dynamic, it raises your awareness levels and can be incorporated into your everyday life. Within the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun, a Kung Fu system known for its close-quarter hand-to-hand combat, are the powerful benefits of a rare type of meditation that has the power to transform your mind and body like nothing else. This dynamic type of standing meditation is found in all of Wing Chun, but nothing to the degree as harnessed within an exercise called Siu Nim Tau.

Sifu Adam Williss is the founder of Dragon Family Wing Chun and Program Director at The Dragon Institute . He was a 2010 inductee into the US Martial Arts Hall of Fame. For more information, visit adamwilliss.com © The Dragon Institute | Orange County | Wing Chun Kung Fu | 34241 Pacific Coast Highway | Dana Point, CA 92673 | ocwingchun.com

Long Bridge Sparring Workshop By Adam Williss on December 28th, 2012

What is Siu Nim Tau? Siu Nim Tau is the ultimate form of dynamic meditation. The natural alignment process of Siu Nim Tau practice is second to none. The standing meditative practice of Siu Nim Tau develops the power of the mind as well as physical equilibrium. It will transform not only your body but your entire way of life! The king of all exercise, Siu Nim Tau makes no apologies for its subtle power. Its impact hides itself within its lack of thrill. It looks like nothing. Yet many experts considered its practice to be the father of all internal kung fu! © The Dragon Institute | Orange County | Wing Chun Kung Fu | 34241 Pacific Coast Highway | Dana Point, CA 92673 | ocwingchun.com

Those unfamiliar with Siu Nim Tau usually experience severe muscle fatigue and subsequent trembling at first. Later, once sufficient stamina and strength have been developed, the practitioner can use Siu Nim Tau to work on developing central equilibrium as well as sensitivity to specific areas of tension in the body. Siu Nim Tau is also a form of qigong practice. It removes blockages in Qi flow. This blockage removal occurs because Siu Nim Tau, when correctly practiced, causes a regulating or normalizing effect on the body. Any habitual tension or tissue shortening (or lengthening) is normalized by Siu Nim Tau practice and the body regains its natural ability to function at its optimal potential. A normalized body is less prone to muscular skeletal medical conditions. There is way more to it. But I have to go practice now. 5