If there is anyone you know of who is planning just on show up at the door, please tell them to contact me prior to the seminar to RSVP, if possible. Otherwise, I will keep everyone informed through email and postings on our website.

Regards,

SiFu James Sasitorn

Here is the link to the original seminar announcement:

http://wingchunhouston.com/events/sifu-doc-savage-seminar-june-26-2010/

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SiFu Doc Savage will be holding a seminar in Houston, Texas, Saturday June 26 2010,  9am – 4pm, on the foundation, sensitivity, and fighting aspects of Wing Chun Kung Fu.

SiFu Doc trained Wing Chun under SiFu Duncan Leung from 1976-1990. SiFu Doc has also trained in numerous other styles of martial arts, and has over 22 years of experience in Tai Chi (both Wu and Yang styles), and has earned a coveted second-degree black belt in Shaolin Suu Kempo.

This seminar is open to all lineages of Wing Chun practitioners, martial artists, as well as the general public. The seminar will cover core concepts of Wing Chun Kung Fu, and its applications. More specifically:

• Hand Form
• Warm Ups, Foundation, Horse
• Techniques against Aggressive Opponents / Street Fighters
• Techniques against Low Lead/Rear Roundhouse
• Chi Sau Variations
• Q&A

The seminar is $100. Space is limited. RSVP online at http://shadowhandwingchun.com/houston by June 12th and save $10.

Regards,
SiFu James Sasitorn

http://members.tripod.com/~Wing_Chun/Catalog.html

The book is also available on Everything Wing Chun:

http://www.everythingwingchun.com/Duncan-Leung-Wing-Chun-Warrior-p/dl01.htm

Unlike most of the Wing Chun books you’ll find, this isn’t the typical instructional book with history, theory, techniques, and applications. Instead, its a collection of stories from SiFu Duncan Leung about his experiences learning and applying Wing Chun, intermixed with philosophy and Wing Chun theory. This book helps elucidate the more intangible and profound aspects of Wing Chun and martial arts in general. It also provides us a deeper understanding up the character of Yip Man and his teachings. Here are two reviews on it:

The story of Duncan Leung – childhood friend of Bruce Lee and disciple of Wing Chun master Yip Man – is valuable not only for the insights it offers into Chinese martial arts but also for its portrayal of the lost Hong Kong of the 1950s and 1960s. Reading Ken Ing’s Wing Chun Warrior, which chronicles Leung’s Kung Fu escapades, will be a jarring revelation to anyone familiar with the manic but orderly and largely peaceful city of seven million people that is Hong Kong today. The city described by Ing is a place where Kung Fu practitioners wielded eight-chop knives in the streets and literally battled their way from one martial arts studio to another to prove their fighting prowess. — Asia Times, May 16, 2009

There are some gems in the text that have the feeling of a 1950s Hong Kong film. For example, when Leung is queueing up for an evening function and two triads jump the queue, he decks them, much to the admiration of the crowd. But he has only a moment to enjoy their adulation before he spots 20 men with broken bottles heading for him. He then runs 2km, loses his entourage and comes to rest at the Queen Victoria statue in Victoria Park, where he promptly vomits. There are also his references to his friend Bruce Lee, who to a certain extent has become more legend than man — that as well as fighting, they were Elvis Presley fans and enjoyed dancing, at which they were apparently skilled. The book describes the two teenagers going to weekly dance classes so they could swivel their hips like the King. –South China Morning Post, March 1, 2009

Regards,
SiFu James Sasitorn
Houston Wing Chun Boxing Academy

SiFu Doc Savage is planning on offering a seminar in Houston, Texas later this year. We are also discussing the idea of filming footage for SiFu Doc Savage’s Wing Chun DVD Series in Houston as well. I am currently working with my Videographer on scheduling, and will post more information as it becomes available.

If you are interested in attending the next Wing Chun seminar in Houston, send me email and I will add you to our mailing list.

Regards,
SiFu James Sasitorn
Houston Wing Chun Boxing Academy

SiFu Doc Savage will hold a seminar March 13, 2010 at Susans Studio of Dance in  Huntsville, Al.

Saturday [9am-4pm] lunch @ 11 a.m.

SHADOWHAND WING CHUN KUNG FU
Defense Against:

1.Street Fighters: This is what the stay at the school martial arts practitioner fears the most. WHY? Because most martial arts teach you moves that are predictable. But, ‘What IF’ SiFu Savage will show you what to do and why it works!

2.’Combat Chi Sao’ Concepts and Applications this lesson will teach anyone how to use the idea of ‘Chi Sao’ in a ‘Real Life’ use of this training. SiFu Savage will teach you the secret of ‘Elbow Pressure’ and How and When to use it.

The seminar is $100 per day per person. Space is limited. Everyone is welcome to train.
RSVP online at [alabamawingchun.com]