Editorials
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Aug/07/2012Concluding remarks on 'ChiSao and ReakTsun etiquette'
This last part on ChiSao and ReakTsun etiquette is once more about the problem of "following-up", uncertainty about who won and finally teeth-rattling punches owing to lack of communication…
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Aug/07/201220 mistakes – but only where advanced WingTsun is concerned
In WingTsun too, the question of what is right or wrong repeatedly arises. But particularly in our fighting system, we must constantly keep the level of knowledge – beginner, advanced student, master… – in mind.
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Aug/06/2012Ritual combat training is the basis, and not only for men
Macho ritual combat is the most probable form of single combat in which we might be involved. Even an elderly gentleman who has long thought himself to be beyond good and evil can be induced to take part.
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This gives extreme importance to the first three proactive BlitzDefence teaching programmes, which I specifically tailored to this situation. -
Aug/06/2012Explanation of my 'linkage' model
Let me start with a quote from Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky before I briefly introduce the author of the guest editorial for August, Prof. em. Dr. phil. Horst Tiwald, and relate how we got to know each other. Then it's over to him.
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„If the magnetic centre is working correctly and if a person really searches, even if not actively, but has the right feeling, he can meet another person who knows the way, and is in connection either directly or through other people with a centre which lies outside the laws of chance, from where the ideas originate that created the magnetic centre.“
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Jan/21/2010Forgiveness is necessary
"It is always an error not to close ones eyes to forgive, or in order to recognise oneself."
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Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande -
Jan/31/2009Is there a superior technique? - Part 2
On the importance of refraining from prefabricated techniques and doing the unexpected.
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Nov/30/2008Doing nothing so that everything is done
The part of the Taoist strategy of non-strategy that is hardest to understand, and therefore the most frequently misunderstood, is "not-acting" or "not-doing".
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Nov/01/2008A fight is not a tango
In his masterpiece "WingTsun Kuen", my Si-Fu Leung Ting clearly states that a fight is not a tango: an opponent in the street will not perform the same dance movements as us, and he will not stick to the same rhythm either.
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Sep/30/2008What partnerforms are good for
I have devoted several hours of each day to my research work for the sports university, and have come up with amazing findings that will be translated into practice for the benefit of all our members.
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Jul/31/2008The two sides of the coin
Anybody who thinks he understands WT has not understood it! Or at least only the one half of it ...
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