Editorials
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Jul/01/2015What has water got to do with WingTsun?
When I heard that I was being allowed to write the editorial, I was staying at Hotel Giessbach by Lake Brienz in the Bearnese highlands. This is where I take a few days rest each year (after all the travelling I do for WingTsun), firstly to restore the work/life balance and secondly to come up with new ideas.
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Jun/01/2015Hockenheim 2015 – Together we are strong
The mega-weekend in Hockenheim has come and gone. The preparation and planning for such an event is only possible when many helping hands get down to work together. Many thanks to you all …
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May/04/2015May is a time of change …
… also in the EWTO, and one of the new features is that I want to give my team space to write their own regular editorials on this page!
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Mar/31/2015WT and Grappling
As my research work is currently concerned with the way towards Inner WingTsun, I have asked Grandmaster Oliver König, who together with DaiSiFu Thomas Schrön has long examined the subject of "grappling" and its relative value in WingTsun self-defence, to write a guest editorial on the state of affairs.
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Feb/28/2015"Do you still practice the forms?"
At present I am once again engaged in intensive research for our WingTsun training – and not least also the WingTsun forms. This is a subject that comes up again and again. But as I am very short of time right now, I have asked the man who has studied the forms most intensively to write something about them in a guest editorial: GM Giuseppe Schembri.
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Jan/31/2015From Tweet to Editorial
A Tweet by GM_Kernspecht is followed by a question, and immediately gives rise to a train of thought which has every potential to become an editorial:
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Jan/01/2015All good things come in threes
In my New Year's greeting I have already provided an outlook on the direction my personal plans for the coming year will take.
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The freedom I have to devote myself so intensively to the further development of our WingTsun is due entirely to the support I receive from a superb team: Grandmaster Giuseppe Schembri – 9th degree, Grandmaster Oliver König – 9th degree, DaiSifu Thomas Schrön – 8th degree and DaiSifu Andreas Groß – 7th degree. -
Nov/30/2014Back to the future – or –Forward into the past
An exciting year is drawing to a close, one during which we have made our WT go a great deal "further".
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Oct/31/2014Sharpening up the attack in WingTsun
As I have spent October on a research tour related to the martial arts, I have requested Dr. Oliver König to help out by writing a guest editorial on the importance of correct and effective, appropriate attacks to stop an opponent.
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Sep/30/2014Why "Inner" WingTsun?
Some want to know why I refer to my WT as "Inner WingTsun".
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I am of course well aware that there are very different assumptions about the meaning of "inner" in the martial arts.