Everybody was kung fu fightin’

Mar 1, 2004
Johan Svensson

I finally did what I’ve been thinking about doing for a long long time: start with a martial art. So tonight I tagged along with Breki and started training wing chun.

It’s quite fun, and I got into it faster than I expected — the bong sao was easy to learn (though getting good at using it is a different matter), and I get the impressions that all the moves are pretty easy once you get the hang of it. I found the footwork to be a bit more complicated. I wanted to move around, but in wing chun you keep your feet pretty much rooted in place and move your upper body instead. That will take a while to get used to.

I instantly felt that a martial art was the right thing for me. I’ve never really been interested in going to a gym or starting with some sport, but wing chun clicked for me right away. This will be fun.

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  1. Tomas says:
    March 2, 2004 at 16:26

    Hope you’ll have fun training martial-arts. My only problem with Wing Tsun, which is very similar to Wing Chun, is that it isn’t particularly physically exhausting. Due to the nature of the system, most of the time you’re not moving very much, and sometimes you don’t even break a sweat during an entire training session.

    That depends on one’s trainer, of course, but that’s why I quit Wing Tsun and started training Taekwondo a few years back.

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  2. Mike says:
    March 9, 2004 at 22:56

    Personally, I did Karate for some years as a kid and got bored cause I didn’t think it was practical enough; and I still think that.

    So I tried Aikido last year and completely fell in love with it. It is, of course, the art form that Steven Seagal trained in. For a great demonstration, check out: http://www.geocities.com/joavrosental/Tissier1.html

    I’ve never heard of this Wing Tsun form… is it a type of Kung-Fu, or Karate? Is there a website where I can see it in action?

    Nice site by the way, I really like the design (ventured over BinaryBonsai).

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