{"id":1411,"date":"2011-07-01T02:14:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T07:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2011-07-07T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:00:20","slug":"everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wing-chun-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2011\/07\/01\/everybody-have-fun-tonight-everybody-wing-chun-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody have fun tonight…. everybody Wing Chun tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"City<\/a>Lately I have been eager to get back into the flow of training regularly in the martial arts.\u00a0 Due to the ongoing physical therapy my knees have been feeling better. So yesterday I decided to visit the headquarters of City Wing Tsun<\/a> to take a look at their curriculum. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Wing Chun, it is a highly dynamic fighting style that makes use of unconventional hand and foot strikes that are excellent for close quarter combat. It was originally designed by a woman and stresses speed and precision over pure brute force. The unorthodox hand and foot techniques, when applied properly, tend to cause fits for opponents during fights. I had trained in Wing Chun many years back under Sifu Rick and had been eager to try the style again. I have incorporated some of the basics of the system into my own fighting style with some limited success, but I always felt that I was missing some important components and wanted to expand my knowledge of Wing Chun further.<\/p>\n

I had been looking for a decent school ever since Sifu Rick moved away and stopped teaching years ago. I heard about City Wing Tsun from a few martial arts buddies and when they ran a deal on Homerun for 2 classes and a t-shirt for 20 bucks<\/a>, I found it hard to pass up. The introductory class was fun and helped to remind me why I originally liked the system. The class size was small and all of the instructors on hand were friendly and knowledgeable. The atmosphere of the school had a warm and positive energy which was evident in the students who were just hanging out and having fun in between classes.<\/p>\n

The intro class, while very basic, was extremely helpful in correcting some of the minor mistakes that I have been making in terms of positioning and movement. I am hopefully that my second class next week will be just as good. The following video is the promotional video for the school:<\/p>\n