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The Martial Arts Technique Collector

The world of martial arts is a mixture of focused students and practitioners and technique collectors. Our Grandmaster Leung Ting warns his students early on about being “technique collectors.” He created his teaching system out of the Wing Chun he was taught and re-named it Wing Tsun. Instead, he says, it is the skills that are important. This theme is a thread throughout the Yip Man lineages. It is stronger in some lineages than others. It even exists in an oft quoted Bruce Lee saying, “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

April 17, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Event announcements, Featured, Self Defense

Gilbert Self-Defense Instruction

Wing Tsun Arizona will be offering special self-defense programs in the next few months in Gilbert, Arizona and surrounding communities. Stay tuned by subscribing to our updates and blogs by filling in the blanks at the bottom of the NEWS page.

Our Wing Tsun self-defense martial art system, a Wing Chun teaching method, is the most effective and efficient system, having been an off-shoot of the more complicated Shaolin martial arts. Our Grandmaster, Leung Ting, was a closed-door student of late grandmaster Yip Man.

We are part of a network of Wing Chun schools spanning the globe as part of the IWTA based in Hong Kong.

-Sifu Keith Sonnenberg

April 17, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Event announcements, Featured, News

Chandler Wing Tsun

Chandler Wing Tsun now open…

LEARN the elite Leung Ting WingTsun® system.

WingTsun training maintains fitness, works the smaller muscle groups for better balance, structure and body unity.
The WingTsun (Wing Chun) System is well known for its famous pupil, Bruce Lee and his teacher, Yip Man.
WingTsun™ is a fast, close range street-wise self-defense system which maximizes a smaller person’s chances in a real encounter.

The above photo is the training center at Chandler Wing Tsun @ 401 N. Alma School Rd. #10, Chandler, AZ 85224. Contact the instructor, Sifu John Brusstar at [email protected] Chandler Wing Tsun branch of the IWTA-NAS: http://www.everybodyma.com and click on the Contact spot on the upper right to inquire about classes there! Learn self defense, maintain fitness and good health follows…Phone: (480) 519-5287

April 15, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Blog, Forms, Health, skills

Improve Your Breathing with Wing Tsun Form

Besides just combat and self-defense training, a true martial art can hardly be called an “art” unless there are aspects that involve perfecting your body’s movements. The art of Wing Tsun starts in simple actions based on the first Wing Tsun set of movements. They are called the little idea form. The name refers to the basic ideas presented. The movement have ideas behind them – profound ideas that help you perfect your skills. A representative movement is in the form for everything that comes later.

One set of techniques are hard to illustrate in a photo. They are the breathing method that relieves stress and anxiety. This type of breathing is common to other disciplines. However, in Wing Tsun, the breathing is done during the slow movements of the first third of the form. In one set of movements you have several things going on at one time. This is to prepare you for the training ahead.

You can feel the difference after you have completed the form. It sets you up for a class. It is important to dispel any stress and anxiety you may feel at the beginning of a class so that you can learn a certain number of abstract ideas and perform well. This is a practice you will want to incorporate into your daily regimen and you might even use the breathing ideas in your daily tasks.

Give us a call or send us an e-mail if you would like to schedule a trial class. To your health and wellness.

-Sifu Keith Sonnenberg

April 14, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Blog, Chi sau, Featured, Personal Growth, skills

Learn a Higher Skill

You may attend a variety of martial arts schools these days. In some
towns and cities, the schools are on every block. However, relatively few teach
the higher Chinese skills on a routine basis. Usually very advanced skill-training
goes to only the most senior black-belt students. Most of the intermediate training
involves random sparring and forms. None of those long-range styles teach the
sticky hands handed down to them from Yip Man. In Leung Ting WingTsun®, sticky
hands is an intermediate skill.

March 13, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Special Offers

Wing Tsun Intro Offer

For a limited time, you can try Wing Tsun kungfu in Gilbert, AZ for one week for just $25, no obligation. Go to our Trial Lesson Page and fill out the form. Tell us on the form what offer you are interested in. We will contact you within 48 hours to set up your appointment for your first class, evening hours only.

Offer expires: March 19, 2019

February 25, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Blog, Self Defense, Training

Street Wing Tsun

Our Wing Tsun training is truly one of the traditional, non-traditional martial arts. Inside Wing Tsun’s traditional training, lies the applications for common attacks. Most martial arts are learned by training with other students in the same martial art. However Wing Tsun instructors long ago realized that Wing Tsun, were it to be applied for real, would be applied against non-Wing Tsun attackers of every shape, size and stripe.

February 20, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Blog, Exercise, skills, Training

Arm training in Wing Tsun Kung Fu

Training the arms in WingTsun is not the same as weight training. We will explain the training methods in a minute but first, some explanations:

The ultimate purpose of arm training in WingTsun is to deliver a serious and disabling strike to a vital area of a serious attacker as a self-defense method. To do this, the aim is to develop flexibility, reactivity, control, explosive power and sticky energy. The benefits are fast hand speed, ability to intercept oncoming attacks to the face or body, develop spacial relationships, precision hand movements, reaction time increased behind the wheel of a car, catch falling objects out of the air, react quickly to all manner of unpredictable emergencies, hands stay flexible into old age as long as the practice continues.

The training methods are:

January 2, 2019/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Blog, Self Defense, skills

Available Self-Defense Skills

Grandmaster Leung Ting, has said that WingTsun™ is not a ‘style’ but a system. All the parts work together without contradiction. Carried further, Wing Tsun is a concept. It is a system not weighted down by thousands of techniques grouped together from several disciplines, the majority of which are unrelated as to concepts. They would be impossible to put together and used with any degree of speed or reliability. In a real self-defense situation, a defender must react spontaneously according to the moment. There certainly is not any time to re-think that anti-grapple or that kick you just learned the way it was done in class. You must react according to the concept rather than the choreography. After all, your attacker doesn’t know this movement and he doesn’t care! Self-defense that is available is the most useful.

December 29, 2018/by Sifu Sonnenberg

Blog, skills, Techniques, Training

The Wing Tsun Secret

Once a layperson who has an interest in martial arts also becomes acquainted with Wing Tsun (or wing chun) techniques, the fascination often begins. Due partly to online videos, tons of chatter, posts, blogs, and YouTube stars, many “wing chun fans” become obsessed. All the internet surfer wants to do is be like the guy in the videos or the star of the movie about Yip Man. It is a shame that the obsession doesn’t include an obsession with the ‘secret’ of Wing Tsun.

December 2, 2018/by Sifu Sonnenberg

The Martial Arts Technique Collector

Gilbert Self-Defense Instruction

Chandler Wing Tsun

Improve Your Breathing with Wing Tsun Form

Learn a Higher Skill

Wing Tsun Intro Offer

Street Wing Tsun

Arm training in Wing Tsun Kung Fu

Available Self-Defense Skills

The Wing Tsun Secret

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