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Written by Xiaotong Huang
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Counters to common grabs and restraining holds are often the bread and butter of many martial arts’ self-defence syllabuses. While these type of attacks may rank a distant second in street fights, behind a wild punch and a flying boot, they are nevertheless dangerous and likely to be applied in some form in the worst kinds of assault, such as attempted rape or kidnapping. While many systems advocate a complex series of steps to extricate oneself from an attacker’s grip, tai chi simply teaches you to use your bodyweight to quickly destroy the opponent’s balance, as Master Xiaotong Huang demonstrates.
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Will the Real Wing Chun please stand up?
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Written by Pablo Cardenas
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Will the real Wing Chun please stand up? That would be a fair question coming from any Aussie who’s looked around for a Wing Chun kung fu school to find that many of them claim to be ‘the one’ when it comes to carrying on the tradition. Several of the largest schools also contradict each other’s claims by touting themselves as the true or sole inheritor of the system taught by the art’s most famous master — and subject of three recent movies — Grandmaster Ip (or Yip) Man. Here, Wing Chun instructor Pablo Cardenas dissects the differences in the methods of the art’s competing clans and asks, what does it really mean for the student?
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Written by James Sumarac
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For thousands of years the Chinese civilisation has had a great affinity with birds and animals, possibly no more obvious than in the proliferation of animal-influenced fighting techniques and even complete systems of martial arts based on the characteristics and combative methods of animals.
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Written by Danilo Hajdukovic
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Try this ancient kung fu exercise to develop the strength of base needed to produce true power.
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Written by Grandmaster Keith Kernspecht
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Grandmaster Keith Kernspecht, creator of WingTsun’s BlitzDefence program and the author of several books on the topic, is known for his outspoken views on what does and doesn’t work in self-defence. In this edited extract from his recently released book, The Last Will Be the First, he refutes the idea that the pre-emptive strike is faster than the reactionary strike and is therefore more appropriate for effective self-defence.
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Written by Henry Arneda
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As one of a handful of select students to have been personally trained by the late Grandmaster Yip (Ip) Man, Sifu Duncan Leung has gone on to forge a formidable reputation of his own in the wide world of Wing Chun kung fu. It was a reputation earned through not only teaching US police SWAT teams and other elite units in hand-to-hand combat strategies, but through the many challenge fights that led Leung to apply the lessons learnt in developing his own take on the Chinese kung fu system, which he calls Applied Wing Chun. Here, Leung's student Sifu Henry Araneda, chief instructor of Applied Wing Chun Australia, gives us a rundown of what makes the system unique.
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