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Kung Fu training in Sweden

Wudang Baguazhang

Wudang är ett av de kända kung fu templena i Kina. Här tränas bland annat den taoistiska kampsporten Baguazhang. Särpräglat för denna kampsport är att man ständigt är i rörelse av en cirkel. Klassiskt för alla nya inom Bagua är att man måste gå runt runt i denna cirkel tills detta blir naturligt. Baguazhang tränas bl.a på Malmö Wing Tsun Skola här i Sverige. Munkar från Wudang kommer ofta och besöker Malmö Wing Tsun Skola.

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IP MAN tops Hong Kong film awards

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Wilson Yip’s IP Man, a biopic based on the life story Bruce Lee’s first martial arts teacher, won best film at the Hong Kong film awards. No luck for Donnie Yen to make it a double for the flick though, as he failed to scoop the best actor accolade. That honour went to Nick Cheung for his performance in Dante Lam’s gritty action cop drama ‘The beast stalker.’ Perhaps the Don-meister will have better luck next time around. “Ip Man 2” is already scheduled to start production in June, with principal photography expected to last until October. IP2 will continue the story of martial- arts expert Ip Man’s escape from Japanese occupied China into Hong Kong. Director Wilson Yip and Yen are both back on board and the pic is aiming for a release towards the end of 2010. Full winners list below:

Best film: Ip Man (dir: Wilson Yip)

Best director: Ann Hui – The Way We Are

Best screenplay: Lou Shiu-wa – The Way We Are

Best actor: Nick Cheung – The Beast Stalker

Best actress: Paw Hee-ching – The Way We Are

Best supporting actor: Liu Kai-chi – The Beast Stalker

Best supporting actress: Chan Lai-wun – The Way We Are

Best new performer: Xu Jiao – CJ7

Best cinematography: Arthur Wong – Painted Skin

Best film editing: Yau Chi-wai – Connected

Best art direction: Tim Yip – Red Cliff

Best costume & make-up design: Tim Yip – Red Cliff

Best action choreography: Sammo Hung & Tony Leung Siu-hung – Ip Man

Best sound design: Wu Jiang & Roger Savage – Red Cliff

Best visual effects: Craig Hayes – Red Cliff

Best original score: Taro Iwashiro – Red Cliff

Best original film song: Jane Zhang – Painted Skin

Best new director: Derek Kwok – The Moss

Best Asian film – Assembly

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Wing Chun seminar with Sifu Donald Mak in Sweden januari 25-28/1 2009

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Sifu Donald Mak from Donald Mak Int’l Wing Chun Institute (IWCI) comes to Sweden and Malmö Wing Tsun School  januari 25-28. The theme for the seminar will be Biu Jee.

Place: Malmö Wing Tsun School

Adress: Celsiusgatan 29

Seminarschedule

25/1 Time: 14.00-18.00

26/1-28/1 Time: 18.00-22.00

Price: 1500 skr

mail: kungfu.sweden@gmail.com

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Tai Chi Chuan seminar in Malmoe 17/1 2009

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Tai Chi Chuan seminar in Malmoe 17/1 2009

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Sifu Wan Kam Leung to Malmoe

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Sifu Wan Kam Leung once again comes to Sweden, Malmoe Wing Tsun School, and teach Practical Wing Chun.

Friday, february 6

Training: 18.00-22.00
Adress: Celsiusgatan 29
Price: 55 euro for members, 65 euro for non members of Wing Tsun Sweden or Practical Wing Chun.

Saturday: february 7

Training: 12.00-16.00
Adress: Celsiusgatan 29
Price: 55 euro for members, 65 euro for non members of Wing Tsun Sweden or Practical Wing Chun.

If you attend both day you got the training on sunday in Copenhagen for free. If you want to participate don´t hesitate to contact me. This is a great event.

Contact: kungfu.sweden@gmail.com

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Introduction of Weng Chun in Sweden part 2

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Sifu Andreas and Sije Maria at Malmoe Wing Tsun School

Among the many things our Grandmaster taught us was the explanation of heaven, man and earth as concepts for distance and height and also the meaning of connecting the parts of your body but also the separation (The Rocket), a precondition for Weng Chun. The more advanced practitioners where allowed to let off steam while doing “Dim-Chi-Sao” which my partner Sifu Henrik from Copenhagen and I did enthusiastically. At the end of the first day every one had his head full of ideas and exercices and got home with a lot of inspiration. The long break in the afternoon and our dinner at the restaurant gave opportunity to many exchanges of ideas about martial arts and we could all get to know each other more. I got a feeling that the people from Malmö were quiet open minded and interested in new things. I stayed in a wonderful youth hostel for the night.Sunday

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On the next morning I headed to the Wing Chun school together with Sifu Jonas Evertsson who lives close to the youth hostel. The beautiful morning an the fresh air immediately rose our desire for training. We used the short walk to the school to exchange ideas about martial arts and arrived at our destination just before the beginning of the seminar.


The program was marvelous again. Sigung talked about circling movements in fights. It was wonderful that again one exercice flowed into another. You could really get a feeling of Lau if your partner was up to the task. I was very happy with the quality of training my partner, a student from Malmö, allowed for. The energy he used when exercising was just right and it was a pleasure to flow from one exercise into another. More and more I got the impression that the trainig culture in the school of our hosts enabled them to have a very instructive training in a relaxed atmosphere. Again and again Sigung compared our daily life and the situation a fighter finds himself in. Unbalance between the external speed of the world and our internal speed leads to stress and a lot of pressure and deprives us of our power. A good fighter always imposes his rhythm on his opponent.

Text: Sebastian Mehler

Wing Tsun Kung Fu in Sweden

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Introduction of Weng Chun in Sweden part 1

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Sije Maria, Sifu Andreas, and Sifu Henrik

Saturday 22.11.2008

After a quite uncomfortable night we drove to Malmö which is only about 40 minutes away from Copenhagen by car. We were all pretty curious about how the Wing Chun people whould react to a very different and new martial art. At first sight the school made a really pleasant impression and all the people in the kitchen talking and drinking tee spread an easy and friendly atmosphere. It was very pleasing to see so many people from Weng Chun schools in Denmark and England that had come to support Sigung with his very first seminar held in Sveden.

After Sifu Henrik from Sweden had welcomed Sigung, and all of us, Sigung startet the seminar with an explenation about the common or similar things, in our styles, that you can find throughout our history, the philosophy and our movements. He mentioned places that hat been of great importance to both styles for example the red boat or Fatshan. We started the pratical part of the seminar with the first section of Sap Yat Kuen which Sigung used to explain differences in the styles. He mentioned the dragon riding stance, the hole body movement with a special use of our hip that allows for Lau and Ying and Yang to be expressed. Sigung also talked about our different fighting stances and their meaning as well as our footwork.

As soon as we had finished with this part we started with one hand Chi Sao. Sigung animated our new friends to use all the space available in the training room to try “pushing and pulling” while using big steps in order to get a better feeling of “Lau”. Sigung complemented our new friends from Sweden on their quiet noticable ease with which they realized the exercices shown to them. Many of the Wing Chun people from Malmö also train Bagua, Xinyi Liuhe Quan and Tai Chi Chuan which explains their abilities in flowing.

Text: Sebastian Mehler

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Welcome Sweden into the Weng Chun family !

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It is always a special event when Weng Chun comes the first time into a new country. Wing Tsun Sifu Henrik Nilsson from Malmö, Sweden hosted this historic event with Grandmaster Andreas Hoffmann, assisted by Sifu Henrik Sprechler from Denmark and Sije Maria from Germany. From all over Europe Weng Chun friends supported the birth of Weng Chun in Sweden. The seed is planted and the Weng Chun flower will grow in Sweden under the guidance of Sifu Henrik Nilsson from Sweden, Sifu Henrik Sprechler from Denmark and the Weng Chun Grandmaster Andreas Hoffmann.

Text:Sebastian Mehler

Weng Chun Kung Fu in Sweden

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