詠 春 袓 訓 the wing chun code of conduct 守 紀 律 祟 尚 武 德 remain disciplined, uphold yourself ethically as a martial artist 明 禮 義 愛 國 尊 親 practice courtesy and righteousness, serve the community and honor your family 愛 同 學 團 結 樂 群 love your fellow students or classmates, be united and avoid conflict 節 色 慾 保 守 精 神 limit your desires and pursuit of bodily pleasures, preserve the proper spirit 勤 練 習 技 不 離 身 train diligently and make it a habit, maintain your skills 學 養 [...]

The Three Stages of Cultivation   The first is the primitive stage. It is a stage of original ignorance in which a person knows nothing about the art of combat. In a fight, he simply blocks and strikes instinctively without a concern for what is right and wrong. Of course, he may not be so-called scientific, but, nevertheless, being himself, his attacks or defenses are fluid.   The second stage — the stage of sophistication, or mechanical stage — begins when a person starts his training. He is taught the different ways of blocking, striking, kicking, standing, breathing, and thinking [...]

The Wing Chun way is broad and deep Persistent pursuit can keep your core fit Once techniques reach the true and utmost pinnacle Power roars like river and sea, day and night - Translation of Sigong Chu Shong Tin's Wing Chun Poem    

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.” – Bruce Lee “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” – Bruce Lee

Self defense, sparring or real fighting can be expressed in many ways. Usually we look at these and think that we should have a specific movement or answer to every situation that can occur. The problem with this is that we can never train specifically for every situation individually and pull off that individual response when we need to, let alone follow up with multiple moves after. This is movie fighting which is very unrealistic. Every situation has multiple answers or outcomes and there is never really one absolute way to deal with any situation. So that means to be effective, we [...]