Awatea Piripi Edwin's Blog – August 2009 Archive (3)

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

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

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