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Many years ago I asked Chu Shong Tin what I should focus on in my training in order to progress. His answer was specific to my level at that time rather than a universal maxim. Given that I was in the early stages of training he said that I should focus on rolling my joints.…

A while back I wrote a piece about the fact that we do not push off the ground in Chu Shong Tin Wing Chun. The theme was really more about berating people who argue a point before taking the time to understand the concept. A student reminded me that I finished up my little rave…

In Chu Shong Tin’s excellent tome, ‘The Book of Wing Chun’, there is a single page that outlines the sequence of events that occur when performing any movement correctly. Most of the people who have this book seem not to have noticed it, however in my opinion it is one of the most helpful nuggets…

I don’t get out much. On the rare occasion that I meet people other than my current or soon-to-be students and the conversation naturally turns to what I do for a living, they often comment that; “You must be very disciplined”. Of course these are people who do not know me! I dropped out of…

Cocooned within the world of whichever martial art one studies, it is easy to misunderstand the framework of logic that is applied to other styles. Even when training in the same art various lineages may look at other schools and their study methods with disdain. ‘What the hell do think they are doing?’, and ‘How…

There are things more important than Kung Fu. Chu Shong Tin spent countless hours trying to pass on his skill to thousands of followers. I was fortunate to benefit from his inexhaustible patience and diligence in that regard, but looking back on more than thirty years of trying to understand just how he managed to…