Duncan Leung – Applied Wing Chun, The Kicks

Duncan Leung – Wing Chun Applied, The Kicks Video quality: DVD MPEG 720×480 (4:3) @ 29. 970fps video 48000Hz stereo audio PCMDuration: 1 hour 24 minutes Chapters:
Tiu Gurk is number one.
2nd Dung Gurk
Joh Gurk 3
Chai Gurk 4
Gurk 5-Chaang
6-Bad Gurk
Tan Gurk 7
Soh Gurk No. 8
9-Wall Workouts
ten) Applications and sparring SiFu Duncan Leung is a former classmate of Bruce Lee and a disciple of Wing Chun Grand Master Yip Man.
He has been teaching Wing Chun for almost twenty years in the United States.
This includes instructing the FBI, Navy Seals, and different police agencies in the United States.
His one-of-a-kind training techniques provide pupils a thorough grasp and teaching in the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu.
His teaching techniques also help his students to improve their fighting skills by using Wing Chun in real-life combat scenarios.
This is known as Applied Wing Chun.
SiFu has created 6 videos in the same spirit of instruction.
The videos are intended to teach the fundamentals of the first and second forms, Chi Sau, Trapping Hands and Training Drills, and Wooden Man and Kicks.
SiFu himself narrates them.
They also provide his observations on various combat tactics.
As one of just a few pupils directly trained by the late Grandmaster Yip (Ip) Man, Sifu Duncan Leung has forged his own strong reputation in the vast world of Wing Chun kung fu.
It was a reputation earned not only through teaching hand-to-hand combat strategies to US police SWAT teams and other elite units, but also through the many challenge fights that led Leung to apply the lessons learned in developing his own take on the Chinese kung fu system, which he calls Applied Wing Chun.
WHERE CAN I FIND KICKS IN WING CHUN?
A widespread misconception is that wing chun consists almost entirely of hand skills.
Wing chun offers excellent kicking techniques.
Some claim there are eight kicks.
There are eight different sources of kicks.
They are given by many sources of electricity and may be utilized in various ways in various conditions.
Many kicks can originate from a same source.
They are somewhat complicated and difficult to learn.
They only require practice and comprehension.
As a result, the majority of kicks are not taught until the learner has mastered the hands, posture, and movement.
So, if you discontinue training after the first year, you will lose out on the finest kicks in martial arts!
Duncan SiFu Leung
During the early 1950s, Chinese martial arts were immensely popular among Hong Kong’s youth and working class.
There were several styles available, including Hung Gar, White Crane, Dragon type, and Choy Lai Fut, but no one had heard of Wing Chun.
Yip Guy, a young man from Foshan, China, was there at the time.
He learnt the art in China and then had additional instruction from Leung Bik.
He started his teaching career with the Restaurant Association.
Later, he established his own little school in his house in the resettlement area, with 100-150 square feet of space.
Years passed, and he had taught quite a few talented students; thus, the technique became recognized to the general public.
At the period, different styles often and privately challenged each other.
Early Yip Man disciples like Lok Yiu and Wong Sheung Leung were the most active and performed well in all of the contests.
The main servicing station of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company was only a few streets away from Yip Man’s school, and the workers were the first to enroll in the school after the restaurant workers.
Then students from adjacent St. Frances Xavier, including Bruce Lee and Hawkins Cheung, began to join.
At the time, the economy was in shambles.
Every day, hundreds of Chinese refugees arrived in Hong Kong, and finding work for everyone proved difficult.
The pay was modest, and the hours were long.
This made it extremely difficult for kids to train.
Early pupils such as Leung Sheung, Lok Yiu, and Wong Sheung Leung established their own schools, and others such as Tsui Sheung Tin began to teach privately.
Yip Man had stopped teaching before his death in 1972, yet he was still consulted regarding Wing Chun.
He lived a difficult existence in Hong Kong in his early years, but in his old age, some wealthy pupils, including Dung Sing and Chan Jee Chu, Hong Kong Royal Police investigators, came to help him.
He was considered the family’s leader and enjoyed a few excellent years before his death.
Unfortunately, he did not pick a successor to continue Wing Chun’s leadership.
It is likely that he had not met anybody he loved, that he had never found anyone worthy, or that he was just unconcerned with the problem at that late point of his life.
Whatever the circumstances, Grand Master Yip Man was the style’s final Grand Master.
After his death, family members gradually realized that they were on their own.
Wing Chun is now a worldwide family with schools all over the world.
Any effective organization requires a leader to unify everyone and help everyone work together, yet for a number of reasons, Yip Man’s successors and pupils who would be most suited to unite and lead us have either been unwilling or unable to do so.
Now, 27 years after Yip Man’s death, the Wing Chun family is becoming increasingly estranged.
Without leadership, some people begin to educate in their own style and criticize those who do not agree with them.
Some even come up with notions that Yip Man never taught them.
There are also others who claim to be the sole “genuine” Wing Chun teachers.
They claim that the only real Wing Chun instructors are those who have been tested and proven to be certified.
Unfortunately, such allegations undermine the movement’s legitimacy and will only serve to split the Wing Chun family.
We’re talking about Wing Chun, a combat form of martial arts.
It takes a long time to learn and practice with it.
To obtain combat experience, one must spend it in combat.
This is quite important; it can be the difference between life and death.
It is not something for which you pay me and I xerox a copy for you.
That is not the case.
Anyone who has studied, trained, and struggled with it for a long time should have grasped certain fundamental principles.
How can somebody dismiss everyone else’s experiences while proclaiming themselves the sole “real” artist in the world and attempting to guide others with such an attitude? The fundamentals of Wing Chun are demonstrated in the forms Yip Man left us, but he orally schooled us on concepts and philosophies.
Each person may understand the ideas differently.
I’m sure Yip Man would be pleased if we who learnt from him continued to reap the blessings he provided.
Wing Chun might develop if we had solid leadership to bring everyone together, trade and embrace each other’s experience and ideas with open minds..
Everyone would benefit in the knowledge.
Without this strong bonding and support among Wing Chun members the principle and theories Yip Man left us will be diminished from generation to generation and one day no one will recognize the style.
Then Wing Chun will be just a name in the history of Martial Arts.
SiFu Duncan LeungTHE IP MAN I NEW was soft spoken, gentle, liked jokes, walked very firm, never complained, not in front of me anyway, never talked behind anybody’s back, seldom to talk about himself.
He was being very smooth never saying anything to upset anyone.
When I was in the regular school whenever a student asked him a question he would always ask the student to tell him the answer after the student thought about it and he would always compliment the person and tell him he was right regardless right or wrong.
When I got into private lessons with him he was much different then.
He did show more concern and gave many details and when I had a question he answered without hesitation always direct to the point.
Even though he was not a scientist or doctor the amazing thing about him was whenever he explained theories and techniques he would always come up with some kind of example from life that made it completely clear and these things always stay with you.
He smoked a lot.
He only had a few friends that I knew of that he was close to.
Basically, they were from the same place he came from.
I did Chi Sau with him every time we met all through the years he taught me never more than 15 min.
because of his age.
When we met it was about 1 or 2 times a week the rest I work out myself.
The lessons were one hour sometimes he stayed 2 hours to check and see what I did.
He would read the papers a lot in the bathroom and stay in there for a long time.
When he would come out the smoke just poured out of the door.
My servant hated him.
All the time with him I only have one time seen him fight.
It was over in less than a second.
At that time I was just a beginner in his school.
I only saw him demonstrate one time.
He took a 6 and a half point pole and drove a long coffin nail all the way into a thick wall with one strike.
That is all I saw him do.
Every time I had time he wanted to go to a place to eat nearby and order Dim Sum and wanted someone to pay for it that is why he asked me to go.
He would not eat very much but would read the newspaper again and I would sit there.
He looked like he really enjoyed himself.
Sometimes he wanted to talk about his past and I was too young and not a good listener for these type of things so I never remembered it.
At the time I had to leave him to go to Australia at the end of my training he had quite a few senior students with him and his older students had schools around him.
When I was with him personally mostly he only talked about Jiu Wan and Jiu Wan’s students.
He seldom talked about his own students.
He was closer to Jiu Wan and somehow the direct students of Yip Man were not close to Jiu Wan’s students.
I never figured out why.
Yip Man was the kind of person that you could never tell inside his heart if he liked you or didn’t like you.
Once in a while when we were talking and some person’s name came up I could tell the way he said things he actually hated the person very deep, but you would never realize it if you were to see him and the person together.
He would never show know how he felt but was always nice and polite.
These are some of the memories I now have left with me of my SiFu.
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