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Compare the quality of the Lat Sau inthese two videos. The first shows Hong Kong Lat Sau performed by students of a teacher in Canada who actually learned in Hong Kong and who is a highly ranked direct Leung Ting student. The second is from Sifu Patrik Gavelin in Sweden who is a second and third generation student of Leung Tings.





What do you think?

A Backyard with A Roof

The tent (20X20 ft.) is going up this weekend. Now our backyard has a roof for when it rains. The porch has gotten too small for our growing numbers. This new luxury comes at a price, though. Now, there is more room for footwork: steps, kicks, punches, and multiple opponent circle-fighting drills - and that means you'll sweat more.

Got a few pounds to lose? Might as well lose them here at the Backyard. At least here you are getting something in return (grin).

Changes

Looks like more and more new students are signing up lately, and that without any more promo activity on my part. Great. We're ready.

The new Student Grade (S.G.) teaching program (Levels 1 - 3) has just been distributed. It's pretty ambitious. Wing Tsun is supposed to be taught fast, so let's see how much everybody can digest without getting indigestion. Student Grade testings are free (no extra charge for testing and certificates, etc.) and will now be available every two months instead of every three.

We are also getting a 20X20 large party tent in the driveway soon because the covered porch is getting too small and we need a place to train when it rains. It's all "BYOB" (that's "bring your own brains"; please leave the booze at home until our next grill party!)

Sihing Jean has just been promoted to Assistant Instructor to help me teach the new students coming in and leading the basic training drills. He will get free private lessons in return. Congratulations, Jean!

THE WING TSUN LAP SAU TECHNIQUE SERIES

This video is a great example of the basic Hong Kong WT fighting training. (remember this is only the very first stage of free fighting!) It is all based on the "Lap Sau" cycle, the part of the early chi sau "sections" (drills) that helps tie all the different attacks and defenses together so you can start to "flow". At first, these students stay purely in the lap sau cycle with all the variations from the first program ((Chum Kiu chi sau section No. 1), and then they use the same movements free style as a fighting drill:

Lap Sau Series No. 2

Sifu Gavelin here shows the progression into more advanced techniques from the Lap Sau cycle really well. Watch how relaxed he stays the entire time. Even his student doesn't tense up because he takes him through it nice and slow.

Lap Sau Series No. 3

This is Chum Kiu chi sau section 6, done by Sergio Iadarola. It is the "solo" exercise for some of the movements you just saw applied in Lap Sau in the previous video. I'm talking about the lap sau/faak sau cycle you see here:

Lap Sau Series No. 4

The guys are students of Allan Fong, one of GM Leung Ting's earliest students from Hong Kong. Notice the progression from Lap Sau to freehand chi sau.