If self defense is just about punching, kicking and fighting, it is like learning ONLY how to clean your shoes AFTER you step into dog poop. Furthermore, to gain experiences in this ‘cleanup’ process, one should look for more dog
At the Kids Power Conference 2013
Yesterday, I was offering martial arts classes to around 60 kids as part of the Kids Power Conference 2013. kids power Conference is jointly coordinated by Strathcona Community Centre, Learning Disabilities Association Vancouver and VSB community School Team with Telus
Lessons from the “big cats”
Flexibility, speed and strength without tension: Play fight: When you have to learn the trade to survive: Exercise: There is spaghetti type relaxing but there is a different type of productive relaxed state that actually allow us to function better.
All in the details
Last Tuesday, when we were doing the ‘wipe’, you see how little details make the biggest difference. Steps for that learning process: imitate the motion. Most copy the major arm motions (drawing of circles with both arms) and can do
Apples and oranges
Comparing apples and oranges – The idiom, comparing apples and oranges, refers to the apparent differences between items which are popularly thought to be incomparable or incommensurable, such as apples and oranges. The idiom may also be used to indicate
Nostalgia – Wing Tsun long staff
Just by chance, at a social gathering, a friend asked if I heard of Master Deng Yick (鄧奕) who was regarded as the king of long staff. What a small world! Master Deng was my uncle’s sifu and that is
Qi again
Just a couple of weeks ago, when I was talking about Qi with my daughters, they didn’t think I was serious. Well, yes, I am guilty of always making jokes about Qi / Ki – I am turned-off by how
Training aids
If we are playing Family Feud, the most popular answers for martial arts are probably punching bags, gloves, weights, chin-up bar, tensor bands, ankle weights, etc. There are a whole list of non-conventional training aids for us: – ball –
The constants
There are lots of things that you can change through training but lots are considered as constants. Examples, how tall you are, how much you weigh at a point in time, how long your arms are, laws of physics, etc.
Catch up
Over training is bad. Over blogging is just as bad. Some of you are a couple of blogs behind with the recent exams and projects. Time to catch up or else… If you done the last couple of blogs, thumbs