A Thistle?
Nobody to impress. Nothing to prove.™
Practical Wing Chun for reality.
Empty Hand • Stick • Blade • Weapons of Opportunity
We proudly wear the title of “Nobody” at our gym instead and focus on:
Skills for Reality.
We chose the thistle, a weed to represent us.
Quiet. Stubborn.
Armed with spines. Uninviting.
Impossible to kill.
Difficult to handle.
Built for reality, not performance.
Empty Hand – Stick – Blade – Weapons of Opportunity
Private and small group instruction
We teach two styles that are highly pragmatic, extremely efficient and outcome-oriented: the Chinese Knife and Spear Art of Wing Chun Kung Fu and the Filipino Stick and Knife Art of Kali. Both styles work well with one another to develop real world skills both empty handed and with weapons. Both of these styles place great value on longevity of life and peaceful living.
SKILL=CONFIDENCE & PEACE OF MIND
Size and Strength? Not needed.
Wing Chun and Kali were designed to give a smaller person an advantage.
“The art of Wing Chun was developed by a woman, no doubt smaller and not as strong as her male counterparts. The underlying premise of using Wing Chun is that you are fighting a bigger, stronger opponent. Trading kicks and punches is clearly not the ideal strategy.”
-Paul Vunak,
R.A.T. FIGHT,
Combat Secrets of the World’s Deadliest Fighters,
(pg. 26)
We are living in increasingly more dangerous times.
Learn what to do.
REMEMBER: THE GOAL IS TO SURVIVE NOT DOMINATE…
Learn how structure overcomes strength.
This is not theory.
It is structure and skill passed through a real lineage.
BRUCE LEE’S CONNECTION TO WING CHUN
Wing Chun is the only art that Bruce Lee ever formally studied.
It is the skills that he learned in Wing Chun that made him what he was.
His teacher was Master Yip Man.
Bruce introduced Duncan S.H. Leung to Yip Man and Wing Chun as a fighting art because of their friendship.
We are out of this proven line.
Our Kali line is from
Tatang Ilustrisimo
Yuli Romo
Michael Blackgrave
Dustan Carroll.
Everything comes from daily life even the weapons.
MMA and Wing Chun:
Excerpts from An Article by Martialdevelopement.com
Robbie Lawler’s Ruthless Wing Chun
Tags: EliteXC, MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), rules, self-defense, Wing Chun
“I’ve always known that, sooner or later, the Chinese art of Wing Chun Kuen would be represented in a professional mixed martial arts bout. I just didn’t expect to see it in MMA’s historic prime-time debut”
Robbie Lawler
“On May 31, 2008, Robbie Lawler forever settled any reasonable doubts about Wing Chun’s viability in MMA.
Lawler’s eye poke, unintentional though it was, ended the bout in seconds. There is little doubt in my mind that, if the referee had allowed it, Lawler could have followed up with an uncontested knockout…”
“Effective defense of vital areas cannot be an afterthought; it must be integrated into a fighting strategy from the outset, and supported by coherent tactics. The approach must be … to eliminate the threat as rapidly as possible.
Does any of this sound familiar? These are the precepts of Wing Chun Kuen, Bruce Lee’s original martial art.”
you can read the full article at the above referenced page
If you are interested in training or have any questions, call 256-679-7839.
What students and professionals say about instruction here:
“You are real and that is what makes everything you teach so valuable. You have made it possible for me to go out without fear. Thank you!”
-Gina
(Click Here to read more testimonials on the References and Testimonials page)
contact us @ 256-679-7839.
*We reserve the right to
choose our students.
If it’s not worth dying over it’s not worth fighting over.
•Nobody
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