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August 2009 Blog Posts (6)

Me and My girls - Nathan Cooper

My name is Nathan, I am 31yrs old. When I was 8 I started Zen Do Kai karate until i reached brown belt black tips when I was 13. I quit then for other teenage type of things, if you know what I mean!!! After living a lot i decided to join the Army to try and sort my life out, I did a bit of CQB in there which was effective but very hard on the body, I then left the army and got married to the perfect woman and had 3 amazing daughters, who I started to worry about. Dave, a friend of mine, was in… Continue

Added by Nathan Cooper on August 29, 2009 at 23:01 — 1 Comment

Pleased to have found Wing Chun - Ian Muir

After many years of training & reaching the age of 50 I was ready to give up martial arts training & do somthing else, A friend of mine (Pierre) invited me to join him at a Man Sau Gwoon Wing Chun class to see what I thought. I am very pleased I went, I haven't missed a training night since, that was 12 months ago. Prior to this i went through the ranks at Chans martial arts gained 1st degree black belt, I started a branch of chans & had aprox 50 students training, I started to… Continue

Added by ian muir on August 28, 2009 at 14:59 — No Comments

Blenheim Visit

On Thursday 20th August 09 I visited our Man Sau Gwoon Blenheim school with Ian Muir and Saam-Sihing Terry Rongo. The Blenheim group is headed up by Dave Oberdries and is based on his property just on the northern belt of the town. Terry is a student of mine from the original MSG school in Dunedin and now resides in Porirua (and about to move to Rotorua) and Ian of course is from our Kaiapoi and Bishopdale schools.

After settling in we began a session for a few of the members in which the… Continue

Added by Awatea Piripi Edwin on August 26, 2009 at 12:43 — No Comments

Siu Nim Tau

The first empty hand form in Man Sau Gwoon Ving Chun Kuen is called Siu Nim Tau (aka Sil Lin Tau). And although it is the basic level form it is known in Wing Chun circles as the matrix or key form to the entire system. It is considered so highly that the famous Yip Man is said to have performed it everyday several times a day. It is also known that Yip Mans third student in Hong Kong, Tsui Seung Tin (Chu Shong Tin) has spent a lifetime learning all he can about this form, so much so that he… Continue

Added by Awatea Piripi Edwin on August 18, 2009 at 15:00 — No Comments

My beginnings In Man Sau Gwoon -by Terry Rongo

Awatea though it would be a good idea to write a few things about the time I joined MSG. Gee I don’t know if I can think that far back. The first memories I had was when I first got know Nathan who then invited me to come along to a kung fu school. So I did. I remember I was attempting to chain punch-I though I was doing pretty good, then I looked down at what I was doing and looked up at what Awatea was doing and I was doing it all wrong. Our seniors at that time were Hamish and Phil and a few… Continue

Added by Terry rongo on August 11, 2009 at 13:27 — No Comments

Wing Chun or Ving Chun or Yong Chun or Eng Chun or Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun

Wing Chun or Ving Chun?

As if it wasn’t hard enough to learn a martial art and remember all the terms and names for the relevant techniques and ideas encompassed in it. It can seem even more daunting when you find a myriad of spellings of these words let alone the name of the martial art itself.

So we have Wing Chun Kuen, Ving Chun Kuen, Wing Tsun Kuen, Yong Chun Chuan, and Eng Chun Cun and on it goes.

Which is the correct spelling and pronunciation of our… Continue

Added by Awatea Piripi Edwin on August 8, 2009 at 14:34 — No Comments