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nycasian88
Aug 14th, 2008, 12:23 AM
Hi there,

I live in New York City.. wondering if there are other new yorkers here interested in martial arts training. I practice Wing Chun Kung Fu (詠春拳) and have a small group I train with weeknights and weekends. I'm mainly looking for more hands to train with and to meet cool people to network with. I enjoy reading this forum and into asian culture, food and history. One of the reasons i enjoyed martial arts is because martial arts gave me a way to deal with the racist bs here in Brooklyn while growing up. I'm looking for people who had similar life experiences or just want to learn and train martial arts.

As for training, we work on a lot of two-man partner drills that teach structure, distance, timing, flow, power and relaxation but everything leads into controlled sparring and then free sparring. we also do solo forms first to understand the basic correct movements and to learn the underlying principles of Wing Chun. We also train the wooden man and do focus mitt work. we train to use correct body mechanics and finesse instead of brute muscular force. At some point in training, you'll see and understand how everything is put together. The lineage is Wong Shun Leung and Gary Lam. Wong Shun Leung was Bruce Lee's kung fu brother and main instructor. I'm looking to maintain what i have and build a good training study and practice group. If you are interested, feel free to drop me a line.

Pat the Great
Aug 14th, 2008, 12:36 AM
We also train the wooden man

i don't know what this is but it sounds awesome.

welcome to the 44s.

evil_FUX
Aug 14th, 2008, 12:38 AM
Come on pat you should know what that is:

http://www.wle.com/media/W558.jpg

aelward
Aug 24th, 2008, 07:50 PM
Not in NYC, but there are a lot of people learning WC there. Great lineage you come from there, I've met a couple of Sifu Gary's students and they were good but without the ego that often goes with it.

You might want to visit Sifu Chung Kwok Chow or Sifu Jose Grados; not exactly WSL method, but still some interesting stuff.

nycasian88
Nov 14th, 2008, 11:11 PM
Here's a link to the practice group's website.

http://www.emediaworks.com/wingchunworkgroup/

Link to a practice video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nycwingchunworkgroup