This blog will cover the Wing Chun weapons. To start with I just have a short video of me practicing with a spear. I have not trined this for 20 years so I thought to get back at it.
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In the early 1990s various members of our Wing Chun club went to a seminar on the Indonesian art of Silat. The seminar was given by Grandmaster Herman Siwanda. It definitely opened our eyes to other good arts.
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In 2019 a lady by the name of Guimei Yang decided to make up her own Wing Chun. So she taught a group of dancers her ideas and performed this for the annual University of Victoria British Columbia, Chinese New year’’s show.
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Wing Chun is supposed to be a woman’s art. Yet where are the women in Wing Chun? This blog will post readers submissions on modern Women’s contributions to Wing Chun.
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This blog talks about speed. For a beginner in martial arts, speed is their worst enemy for making progress in their martial art.
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This blog talks about Ray Van Raamsdonk’s Karate roots.
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This blog talks about the views of Master Hawkins Cheung who was a first generation student of Ip Man.
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This blog is about some comments by Master Duncan Leung when we phoned him in 1989 for an article in our “Wing Chun Viewpoint” newsletter.
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This blog talks a bit about the tournaments a few of our students decided to enter in the early 1980’s and 90’s.
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This blog comes from some of my many notes that I wrote on the way home from Vancouver to Victoria every week in 1982 while learning at the UBC Wing Chun club.
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This blob talks about a few of the things I Learned from Master Eddie Chong in 1982 when I visited him in San Francisco while on a computer conference.
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This blog will be about Master Wang Kiu’s thoughts on the early version of Wing Chun that he learned from Ip Man. Wang Kiu was a private student of Ip Man and the private teacher of Dr. G.K. Khoe, who was Ray’s teacher in the early 1980’s. Dr. Khoe’s legacy is being carried on at the University of British Columbia and at the University of Victoria. Wang Kiu has various schools in Holland and in Germany.
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This blog describes my first encounter in 1976 with a high level Wing Chun teacher by the name of Chow Lok Ji. Chow Lok Ji was a private student of Ip Man.
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In 2007 I invited Master level Wing Tsun teacher Ralph Haenel to Victoria to teach us his version of the Wing Chun art. Definitely he was one of the best of the best.
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In 1990 two Hong Kong Wing Chun masters came to visit us in Victoria. While they were here they gave two seminars which I documented. The local TV station was also on hand to film some of he event.
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This blog describes my first impressions of Master Emin Boztepe after he gave our Wing Chun club a seminar in 1994. Emin was one of the top Wing Chun fighters in Europe at the time.
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This blog introduces our combat Wing Chun instructor Reza who talks briefly about his training in England. Reza spent six years in the military and his training approach reflects that.
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This blob describes my 1993 hands on encounter with a high level master of Wing Chun.
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This blog is about my main teacher Dr. G.K. Khoe and our training in 1982. Much of our training is still the same with the addition of input we received from various other master.
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