Editorials

  • Apr/30/2008
    The forms do not provide the letters, and Chi-Sao not only the glue

    At the end of a seminar I usually allow a quarter of an hour or so to answer any questions the participants may have. Often it is not only the assembled students and instructors who learn something from my answers, but myself as well. After all, how am I to know what I think before I have said it?

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  • Feb/29/2008
    We don’t do tricks!

    Whenever I am invited somewhere and people find out that I am involved in self-defence, I am asked to perform some sort of “trick“ to amuse the company.

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  • Feb/29/2008
    Masculine, all-too masculine …

    "Nothing takes place in which overconfidence does not play a part.

    Only the excess of power is proof of that power."

    Nietzsche

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  • Jan/31/2008
    We must criticise what we love!

    All too many people stand rigidly in awe of the ingenuity behind WT, and do not dare to deviate even one iota from the techniques in the forms.
    They assume that a system as ingenious as WT must have been conceived by a single, even more ingenious creator.

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  • Dec/30/2007
    "It"

    My friend Bill, the Escrima Grandmaster, for want of a better word calls it "He". "He" does what is necessary for Bill to win – he only needs to watch.
    I call it "It".

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  • Nov/30/2007
    Back to new shores

    Grandmaster Kernspecht's editorial from the new WT World No. 31 …

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  • Oct/31/2007
    You cannot feel that you are not feeling what you don’t feel

    The situation is similar to the so-called ”blind spot”. While he could probably prove that we all have a blind spot (where our eyesight is concerned), Grandmaster Kernspecht is looking for an experiment with which he can prove to his students that there is much more to be felt than they actually feel.

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  • Oct/02/2007
    The relative value of solo and partner forms (sections)

    Grandmaster Kernspecht on one of the central questions of the WingTsun teaching method.

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  • Aug/28/2007
    An e-mail to a colleague of the “soft persuasion“

    Grandmaster Kernspecht’s answer to a letter from a martial arts acquaintance ...

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  • Jul/28/2007
    A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

    My Spanish master student Victor Gutierrez recently referred to WingTsun as a „wolf in sheep’s clothing“ during his interview – and provided me with a welcome topic suggestion for this editorial.

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