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Wednesdays - Moorgate, C. London - City Point Club*
Instructor: Sifu Ahsan Haque
Timings: 19:15 - 20:45
Location: Fitness Studio, The City
Point Club, 1 Ropemaker St, London EC2Y 9AW
Email:
Ahsan@wingchuncity.com
Contact: 07958
579 643
Maps: click for maps
*(Please pay fees to instructor - no membership of fitness centre is required for attendance. Changing and showering facilities available.)
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Mondays/Thursdays - Edmonton, N. London - Hastingwood Gym
Instructor: Master Seyfi Shevket
Timings: 20:00 - 22:00
Location: Fitness & Martial Arts Centre, Studio C36,
35 Harbet Road, Edmonton, London N18 3HT
Email:
Seyfi@wingchuncity.com
Contact: 07958
579 643 (see
www.spiritwingchun.com for more details)
Maps: click for maps
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Student Info
We see our students as a training partnership and we motivate our class to push to the limit of their capabilities. Beginners are always welcome. You can usually join straight away. However, probation period is four lessons to assess and filter troublesome students who may disrupt the class. Once accepted as a club member you will be required to obtain club uniform and annual membership which includes insurance.
Monthly Tuition Fees: For Wednesday's class
£45 per month
Annual Membership: £25 which include injury insurance and registration.
Uniform: £TBA
which includes Kungfu Slippers, Goggles and Club
T-Shirt
Location Maps
Wednesdays - Moorgate, Central London - City Point Club
Location: Fitness Studio, The City Point Club, 1 Ropemaker St, London EC2Y 9AW
Edmonton, N London - Hastingwood Club
Location: Martials Arts Gym C36, 35 Harbet Road, Edmonton, London N18 3HT
It is served by Bus
route 34 from either Walthamstow Central Tube or Arnos Grove Tube Station. Lots
of car parking available.
Currciculum
The Wing Chun System contains a variety of techniques, including:
Detailed Curriculum:
Forms
Forms are meditative and solitary exercises, which develop your self-awareness, balance and sensitivity. They also train the practitioner in the fundamental movements of Wing Chun. All wing Chun techniques are derived from the forms.
Conventional Wing Chun comprises six forms. They are three empty hand forms, two weapons forms and one "wooden dummy" form.
Empty Hand Forms
1. Siu Nim Tao the first and most important form in the Wing Chun system. Siu Nim Tao ("little idea" or "little first training") is the foundation or "seed" of the art from which all-succeeding forms and techniques depend. The Fundamental rules of balance and body structure are developed here.
2.Chum Kiu translated as "seeking the bridge" or the "sinking bridge". This form focuses on advanced footwork and entry techniques to "bridge the gap" between practitioner and opponent and disrupt their structure and balance. Close-range attacks using the knees and the elbows are also developed here.
3. Biu Jee meaning “darting fingers” comprises of "emergency techniques" to counter-attack when structure and centerline have been compromised; such as when the practitioner is seriously injured. This form teaches the practitioner to come back to the centre.
WeaponTraining
"Six-and-a-half Point Pole" or "Dragon Pole". It is a nine-foot wooden pole.
"Butterfly Swords". A small double Chinese broadswords (Dao).
Wing Chun was initially developed as an unarmed form of combat. Then the system incorporated the use of the pole and the butterfly swords during its evolution. The weapons are taught at an advanced level, as it requires higher level of skills. This helps develop physical conditioning and precision. Weapons training have a beneficial effect on the performance of empty-hand techniques.
Wooden Dummy
The Muk Yan Jong form is performed with a "wooden dummy". It is a contraption made from several wooden posts, representing a human opponent. The wooden dummy is used to train and test Wing Chun techniques. It teaches the practitioner to judge the distance between him/her and the imaginary opponent (the dummy).
Chi Sao
Central to Wing Chun training is the chi Sao or "sticking hands" drill. During this drill, the two participants face each other with their arms locked and touching at the wrists. The participants then "roll" and push their forearms against each other while maintaining contact all times. The aim is to probe and test each other and feel for the gaps in each other’s defences.
This drill helps one to develop contact sensitivity and trapping skills that is a crucial element in Wing Chun. Chi Sao is often compared with the pushing hands drills of Taijiquan in terms of appearance and principles. There are also pre-arranged Chi Sao and "chi gerk" (sticking legs) drills used to practice basic techniques.
History
The history of most martial arts, including Wing Chun, has historically been passed from teacher to student verbally rather than by text, making it difficult to confirm or clarify the differing accounts of Wing Chun's creation, which has long been a subject of debate. Since students are usually more focused on learning the art itself rather than its history, historical fact easily becomes lost as these stories become romanticized and mythologized. Such legends nevertheless shape every practitioner's idea of what the art is and are therefore worth studying in their own right; for example, the traditions of many of its branches maintain that Wing Chun was designed for women and fighters of lighter build in general.
Theories have been proposed that apply the methods of higher criticism to the oral histories of Wing Chun and other Chinese martial arts or discern the origins of Wing Chun by determining the specific purpose of its techniques. Wing Chun starts to appear in independent third-party documentation during the era of the Wing Chun master Leung Jan, making the subsequent history of Wing Chun more amenable to documentary verification.