Happy New Year!  Or perhaps I  should say Merry Christmas, because we’ve just added five more great videos to the Dynamic Martial Arts Wing Tsun Kung Fu Videos page.  Like the last one we added, these were shot at our Bloomington, Illinois school.  All but one were shot the week before Christmas or the day after Christmas because we had a couple visitors over the hoiday.

Claudio Mascarenhas was in for most of the week before Christmas training many hours every day with me.  In addition to being a professional opera singer, Claudio teaches Wing Tsun classes in New York City.

Sifu Adam VanderWaal was also in for a few days right at Christmas.  Adam and Ben Stevens trained literally on Christmas Eve and Christmas day, and then I joined them on Monday, the day after Christmas.  They even persuaded me to step in front of the camera with them (or perhaps it was the other way around)!  In the past I’ve normally posted video of my students.  Most video of me has been private.  This is the first time we have posted video footage with me in it.  We hope you enjoy it!

Here is a taste of one of the videos.  I think we should have titled it, “Why is it martial arts instructors always ask you if you have a cup on AFTER they’ve “tagged you out at home plate?”  But don’t worry, Adam was fine, as you can see from the smiles and laughter.  I think he was having the time of his life.  Check it out… you might even want to expand the window to full screen and maybe even select 1080p HD with the controls in the bottom right corner of the video:

Be sure to see all of the new (and old) videos on the Dynamic Martial Arts Wing Tsun Kung Fu Videos page.  Then contact us to find out how you can learn to do this!

Great Grandmaster Leung Ting executes a Wing Tsun Wooden Dummy technique

On October 29-30, 2011, we had another great Leung Ting WingTsun® Kung Fu seminar with the Great Grandmaster of WingTsun, Dr. Leung Ting, at our Wheeling, Illinois school in the Chicago suburbs.

Prior to the seminar, the Grandmaster stressed privately to Sifu Mike Adams that this time he wanted to really emphasize that the concepts of WingTsun are far more important than what techniques are used physically.  He emphasized that most people continuously chase after the next program, believing that if they only knew a little more, then they would be good.  But actually it is not about how many techniques you know or how advanced those techniques are.  The simplest technique possible is actually the most advanced technique if you truly know how and when to apply it, and why.

Great Grandmaster Leung Ting said that this understanding is actually part of training for the higher levels of WingTsun, the Practician levels.  Once you have learned the techniques up through the Technician levels, then you must continue to practice the techniques until you really get the concept and can master the simplicity.  Though the Practician levels are commonly thought of as the Master levels, the real secret to these levels is in the title of Practician.

During the seminar, whether teaching an advanced application drawn from Biu Tze and Wooden Dummy techniques or the most seemingly basic applications, Great Grandmaster Leung Ting tried to emphasize this perspective.  If you were at the seminar, he hopes you were perceptive enough to get the real lesson underlying all of the drills.  If you got it, that’s great!  If you didn’t, we hope you will take the time to ponder the real lesson of the seminar.

A number of people were promoted to higher levels by Great Grandmaster Leung Ting at the seminar.  We would like to congratulate the following people for their promotions:

• Sifu Brian Carter was promoted to 3rd Level Technician
• Sifu Guerman Atanassov was promoted to 3rd Level Technician
• Mike Treleaven was promoted to 2nd Level Technician
• Ben Stevens was promoted to Primary Level Technician

Thanks to everyone for coming to the seminar!  We hope that between the seminar and this post, you have a lot of food for thought, and that it helps you take your WingTsun to the next level.

Great Grandmaster Leung Ting will teach a WingTsun Kung Fu seminar in the Chicago suburbs on October 9-10, 2010.

Dr. Leung Ting was the last closed-door disciple of the late Grandmaster Yip Man, Bruce Lee’s instructor.  He is the Chief Instructor and founder of the International WingTsun Association, the  largest  Chinese  martial  arts organization in the world, with branches in more than 60 countries.

He is the author of many best-selling martial arts books, including the authoritative text on WingTsun, WingTsun Kuen, widely considered one of the best martial arts books ever written.  This is your opportunity to train with a living legend!

Seminar Dates & Time:

Saturday, October 9, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
10:30 AM to 1 PM and 2 PM to 4:30 PM Each Day

Seminar Location:

Wheeling Park District Community Recreation Center
333 W. Dundee Rd, Room 207-208
Wheeling, IL 60090

Google Map To Seminar

Seminar Cost:

Registration at the door:  $400

Seminar Accomodations:

For hotels in the area, we recommend visiting Hotels.com or Orbitz.com.

Master Parker demonstrates a WingTsun Bart Cham Dao (8-Cutting Broadswords) technique

Learn incredibly practical and effective Leung Ting WingTsun® Kung Fu at this special training seminar.

Sifu Parker is a private student of Great Grandmaster Leung Ting. He is the head instructor at the San Antonio WingTsun Academy, one of the longest running professional WingTsun schools in Texas.

In December 2005, Sifu Parker became one of the first American Masters of WingTsun when he was promoted to 5th Level Practician (Master) in Hong Kong.

Sifu Parker looks forward to passing on to you the essence of this simple yet devastatingly effective martial art.

Seminar Dates & Time:

Saturday, June 12, 2010 & Sunday, June 13, 2010

10:30 AM—12:30 PM & 2 PM—4 PM each day

Who Can Attend:

Saturday’s sessions are open to all levels, including total beginners.

Sunday is open to those working on double arm chi sau or above.

Seminar Location:

Wheeling Park District Community Recreation Center
333 W. Dundee Rd., Room 207-208
Wheeling, Illinois

Google Map To Seminar

Seminar Cost:

For Saturday, June 12th:

Advance Registration: $80
Registration at the door: $100 (Cash only at the door, please)

Advance registration for Saturday due no later than June 11th to your local instructor.

For Sunday, June 13th:

The cost for Sunday will depend on the number of attendees who participate and is cash only at the door.  You can ask your local instructor for an estimated cost based on the anticipated attendance, but the final cost will be determined by who participates on Sunday.

Seminar Accomodations:

For hotels in the area, we recommend visiting Hotels.com or Orbitz.com.

Sifu Will Parker demonstrates a WingTsun Kung Fu Pak Sau (slap hand) and Sut Sau (throat cutting hand) on Sifu Steve Chan

If you haven’t already, mark your calendars for June 12-13, 2010.  Master Will Parker, 5th Level Practician in WingTsun Kung Fu will be teaching a WingTsun seminar for Dynamic Martial Arts in the Chicago area.

Saturday we will have 4 hours of training open to all Student Grades and Levels.  Sunday we will have 4 hours for senior students and instructors.

I’ll be finalizing and posting the details soon.

Sifu Carson Lau, a 7th Level Practician (Master) in Toronto, Canada is featured in the May 2010 issue of Inside Kung-Fu on the practical application of WingTsun in ground fighting.

Sifu Lau originally trained in Hong Kong and is one of the National Instructors of the International WingTsun Association – North American Section (IWTA-NAS).  He has a wealth of WingTsun skills, and the article is well worth the read.

Read Sifu Lau’s Wing Tsun Ground Fighting

Reading about WingTsun Kung Fu or looking at photos is one thing, but you really have to see WingTsun in action.   I just added a new WingTsun Kung Fu videos page to the site.

There are two videos to start.  The first is a rare clip of Great Grandmaster Leung Ting’s first WingTsun demonstration in Europe back in the mid-1970′s.  The second is a clip from a BBC TV series that visited Great Grandmaster Leung Ting in Hong Kong.

Check out the WingTsun Kung Fu videos

Almost done with the Dynamic Martial Arts website redesign, hope you like it!

The old design was looking really dated (the site looked so 2005…) and the site was in serious need of a facelift. Of course I’m usually busy teaching WingTsun, but I knew I needed to buckle down when a student pointed out just how old the latest news was! This new system should make it much easier to update, both with the latest school news and an evolving design.