Editorials

  • Aug/07/2012
    Chi-Sao with the teacher

    In recent months my emphasis has been on interaction between students. This time my focus is on the relationship between the teacher and the student in Chi-Sao.

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  • Aug/07/2012
    Defusing problem areas

    Sometimes it is only minor aspects that can spoil the interaction during training. But once they are recognised, they can be avoided. Being aware of certain "problem areas" and our rules of etiquette during Chi-Sao and ReakTsun training allows many a situation to be defused without any major effort.

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  • Aug/07/2012
    Concluding 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/07/2012
    20 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/06/2012
    Ritual 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.
    This gives extreme importance to the first three proactive BlitzDefence teaching programmes, which I specifically tailored to this situation.

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  • Aug/06/2012
    Explanation 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.
    „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.“

    Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous

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  • Jan/21/2010
    Forgiveness is necessary

    "It is always an error not to close one’s eyes to forgive, or in order to recognise oneself."

    Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande

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  • Jan/31/2009
    Is there a superior technique? - Part 2

    On the importance of refraining from prefabricated techniques and doing the unexpected.

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  • Nov/30/2008
    Doing 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/01/2008
    A 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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