Happy New Year to everyone, I hope you all arrived in 2009 safe and sound. What a brilliant year we have ahead of us. The new HQ is ready and running, seminar dates have been set for the year and most important you all have the energy and drive to make 2009 your most successful year to date.

In this Newsletter:

• New HQ for WT Australia.
• Master Fischer Featured in Blitz Mags’ Instructor Special
• Special seminar for all renovation helpers
• Surviving with the right timing Part 1
• Be great full to those that annoy you
• Early 1900 boxes still new correct stance and power line
• Seminars 2009

 

New HQ for WT Australia.

Over the Christmas and New Year period we have been very busy setting up the HQ for WT in Australia. Work is still continuing at this point. The new premise has 650sq metres to house our training and administration needs. This includes two separate very large open training areas. Those who have visited the old HQ in Chippendale will get an idea when I say that the new HQ is nearly 3 times the size of the old.

The whole refurbishment process has been made so much easier with the volunteer work put in by some of the students from the Parramatta and Chippendale schools. It really has been and awesome display of teamwork to get the work done. Sifu Fischer and the HQ team would like to thank the volunteers for the energy and time they have put in.

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The new HQ is located at 67 Botany Rd Waterloo Sydney.

 

 

New Friday Class at Waterloo HQ

On Friday 17th of April at 6.30pm will commence a regular WT training class. Sihing John Simonides, who is one of Si-Fu Fischers dedicated Instructor Students, will run the new Friday night class. The HQ now has training 6 days a week. All those students on unlimited training passes can now revel in training Monday through to Saturday.

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Master Fischer Featured in Blitz Mags’ Instructor Special

Don’t miss out on your copy of the Blitz Magazine Instructor Special (OUT NOW). Read the two page interview with Sifu Fischer and see the technique work shop where Sifu Fischer shows us defence against a side kick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Special Seminar with Master Fischer for all renovation helpers

Si-Fu Fischer will hold a special seminar for all the students who helped with the renovation of the new HQ. All those helpers who wish to attended please call the HQ to confirm your place 02 9698 6540. The topic of the seminar is to be announced. Seminar date: Saturady 25th April 10am - 4 pm.

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Timing – Part 1: Surviving with the right timing

This month GM Kernspecht start as an extract from my next book a series of different articles on "Timing".

"The attack of a good warrior is akin to the drawing of a crossbow. Full of power and tension. When he pulls the trigger, the bolt flies with a precise calculation of the distance, time and target. Not too early, not too late."
Sun Tzu (5.12)


Surviving with the right timing

We are confronted with a superior and remorseless opponent. We know that if any at all, we will only have very few opportunities to strike him so effectively that he is out of action.
We also know that the few opportunities we will have to strike him are not all equally good, but rather that we must find the right moment and use it with the utmost determination, otherwise he will destroy us without mercy.
This makes the vital importance of the right timing clear.

Time and emotions

A fight is greatly influenced by emotions. Powerful emotions such as fear and anger etc. make the time appear to pass more quickly. The opposite happens as soon as we have gained control over ourselves and the opponent: for the master, the interaction with the opponent happens in slow-motion, which means that he can recognise all the gaps in the opponent’s guard in good time, and exploit them without haste.

Chinese masters in strategy make three distinctions:

1. Taking one’s time
2. Putting the opponent under time-pressure
3. The "time to strike home"

1. Taking one’s time

Anybody who wants to speed up events out of fear or impatience will create further problems with his hasty actions, and these must first be resolved before he can turn to the real problem. This means that the entire process actually takes longer than if he had taken his time. It is not for nothing that the Wu-Wei principle, i.e. relaxed, ‘intentionless’ doing-nothing or doing-little, characterises classical Chinese thinking and behaviour. Even in the face of imminent danger, waiting and doing nothing for the moment is often the better option (unless one is among those who tend to go rigid in the face of danger – in this case one should launch an attack before the first heartbeat has flushed a cocktail of stress hormones into bloodstream). As time passes, options almost always arise which nobody would have considered beforehand. And by creating a little distance for oneself, it is possible to perceive and exploit these opportunities!

2. Putting the opponent under time-pressure

The object here is to gain time by stealing it from the opponent.
The experienced strategist uses the following three variants: 

• He harries the opponent, forcing him to make mistakes for lack of time.
• He lets the opponent wait and delays matters, gaining time and energy for himself while the opponent fidgets around impatiently and loses energy.
• He disrupts the opponent’s perception of time by attacking with a broken rhythm*, starting slowly and then accelerating, or starting fast and stopping abruptly, so that in his blind actionism, the opponent under-reacts and does too little, or over-reacts and does too much. As we know, doing too little or too much is one of the "cardinal sins" in the three Chinese philosophies.

3. The "time to strike home"

We can wait for the right moment as patiently as we like, we can harry and delay the opponent and seduce him into doing too little or too much, but all these efforts are futile if the decisive third factor is missing: actually striking home when the gap in the defence opens up. The Chinese use the mental image of a bird of prey, as it circles its unsuspecting victim from on high and stoops at the right moment to sink its claws remorselessly into the flesh and carry the prey away victoriously.

Extract from Prof. Kernspecht‘s next book in four parts.

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Kung Fu – Be great full for those that annoy you

The Kwoon is a place of learning. We go there for a multitude of reasons. To learn self defense, to burn some calories, to pursue pugilistic aspirations, because as we progress through the program we begin to appreciate that there is more here than just biffo.

WT is a way of moving through time and space, based on a set of simple principles. Like the board game GO, who’s rules are simple and game play complex. Our practice of WT and its application to life can be rewarding in ways that transcend mere fisticuffs. We can apply it to our business life and our relationships. We can use it to chase our dreams. Whatever gets you out of bed in the morning and drives you through the day is good material for the application of what we work on in class.

One of the truly beneficial aspects of training in a big school is the opportunity to train with a lot of different people. For lots of reasons, some training partners present difficulty that translates to an unpleasant training experience, while others become our favorites. The danger of this kind of familiarity is in the false sense of kung Fu it can give.

We cannot choose our family. They are assigned to us by a higher power. This is a good thing (who wants to be omnipotent anyway) as it makes for variety, the spice of life. There is a good chance that many of those less favoured brothers and sisters present an opportunity to be objective about our ability. They can reveal the holes in our game.

So be grateful for those that annoy you. They can show you who you are.

John Hessey

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Early 1900 boxers still knew about correct power line.

Have a look at Stanely John Charles Hessey "The Newtown wonder Boy" 1927 Australian lightweight champion which is the Grandfather of our student John Hessey.

In his time, the Razor gangs of Sydney ruled the streets and boxing was a form of self defense and not just entertainment.

Notice the difference in stance to a modern boxer and the many similarities with the WingTsun stance.

Fists held upright, shoulders relaxed with elbows in to protecting the body. Back straight , head back, majority of weight on the back leg and one foot forward to protect the groin.

If Grandfather Hessey had met Yip Man they would have found much in common.

 

 

 

 

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WingTsun Grading Seminars Australia 2009
Sat. 16th of May 9am -5pm	Grading Seminar Canberra	0415641498
Sat. 4th of April 10am - 4pm	Grading Seminar Waterloo	02 96986540
Sat. 9th of May 10am-4pm	Grading Seminar Brisbane	0403749790
Sa. 12th of July 10am-4pm	Grading Seminar Waterloo	02 96986540
Sat. 23rd of August 10am-4pm	Grading Seminar Melbourne	0404688684
Sat. 20th of Sep. 10am-4pm	Grading Seminar Brisbane	0403749790
Sa. 22nd of Nov 10am-4pm	Grading Seminar Waterloo	02 96986540
WingTsun Ground Fighting Clinics GFC
Frid. 3rd of April 7pm-9pm	GFC Waterloo	02 96986540
Fri. 8th of May 7pm - 9pm	GFC Brisbane	0403749790
Fri. 22nd of Aug. 7pm - 9pm	GFC Melbourne	0404688684
Fri. 19th of Sept. 7pm - 9pm	GFC Brisbane	0403749790
Frid. 21st of Nov. 7pm-9pm	GFC Waterloo	02 96986540

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