Tag: wing chun

  • Ranking Systems in Martial Arts

    Recently, a student at my school met with his friend, whom he had trained with previously at another school. When my student mentioned that at his new school, (Chi Sau Club), there was no grading system, his friend, who trains at a very rank orientated kwoon, asked “How do you know how good you are…

  • Realistic Fighting

    During the 90s I worked for six years as a bouncer in Napier, New Zealand. I am 1.76m tall and weigh 77 kgs, (I was a kg or 2 lighter back then), and usually the smallest bouncer in town. Although I was running my own martial arts school and had made a living from martial…