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Your WingChun Nature

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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sifu Paul Wang with Dai Sifu Klaus Brand at 2014 Spring Camp in the Marin Headlands, California.

Sifu Paul Wang with Dai Sifu Klaus Brand at 2014 Spring Camp in the Marin Headlands, California.

Have you noticed that, for all its vast benefits, technology feels draining at times? Perhaps you are better adapted to it than me. I admittedly have a limited capacity for digital distractions.

Then I begin longing to roam sun-speckled trails, especially those decorated with carpets of spongy moss and fungi-rimmed logs felled to earth by lightning. For me, an elemental elixir of sun, wind and dew must occasionally pour into my pores. Otherwise, without this primal nutrition, my modern existence insidiously fades to robotic routine.

It is easy to forget that we are humanimals possessed of powerful intellects that nonetheless often distance us from our biological selves. Our minds can virtually abstract us from the animal immediacy of our senses and surroundings. This creature instinct starves if it is not unleashed to range freely once in a while. In fact, left confined too long in the claustrophobic boxes of civilization we have built ourselves, this part of you may perish without you even realizing the loss. A sort of inner mass extinction parallels the worldwide decline in ecosystem biodiversity. Continue reading →

Way of WingChun Video

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Way of WingChun Video

A dynamic scene from “Way of WingChun” by My-Linh Le.

Just published! Be one of the first to enjoy the latest film by My-Linh Le “Way of WingChun”. It is a mini-documentary featuring the story of Sifu Klaus Brand – WingChun Grandmaster – as well as the birth, evolution and transmission of our style via the International Academy of WingChun. Also see appearances by Sifu Paul Wang along with Instructors and Students of the International Academy of WingChun – US.

Click the link below to learn: Continue reading →

Fall Event Series 2014

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Sifu Klaus Brand, WingChun Grandmaster

Sifu Klaus Brand, WingChun Grandmaster

The United States Headquarters of the International Academy of WingChun (IAW) and Sifu Paul Wang presents:

2014 Fall Event Series

October 17-26 with IAW Founder & WingChun Grandmaster, Sifu Klaus Brand in Berkeley, California.

 

The fun of training is primarily in change, to meet your personal limits and exceed them.

— Sifu Klaus Brand

Who Should Attend? Join us if you:

  • Want to learn real self-defense skills
  • Want to feel physically empowered
  • Want to develop greater confidence
  • Are interested in functional martial arts
  • Are a curious student of any wing chun style
  • Are a current or former IAW Member
  • Would like meet a WingChun Grandmaster
  • Would like to interact with positive people
  • Would like more motivation to upgrade yourself

An accessible teacher and a consummate artist, Sifu Klaus Brand is the innovator of a dynamic and powerfully effective WingChun paradigm. Since 1998, his insight built upon tradition is infusing the advanced weapon techniques into all unarmed movements, this upgrading the entire system.

Technical skills, or proper control of our own bodies, supported by power and speed and altogether adapted to the particular situation, is the art of WingChun.

— Sifu Klaus Brand

With over four decades of research and practice in the field, Sifu Brand imparts a deeply informed and diverse experience in martial arts, self-defense, weapons and combat. As founding Grandmaster of the International Academy of WingChun in 2003, he personally represents and impeccably embodies the highest expression of WingChun quality available today.

To train you do not need an ideal weight or a special fitness. All you need is the will.

— Sifu Klaus Brand

Don’t miss this valuable occasion and rare chance to boost your abilities and inspire your progress by seeing, hearing and feeling the best in world-class, professional WingChun. Act now to claim a limited spot by contacting Sifu Paul Wang, US Chief Instructor of the IAW. There are a series of events available, but if you want to choose one:

WingChun Seminar with Grandmaster
Sunday, October 26, 1-5 pm, $80

  • Build a solid foundation of WingChun techniques
  • Gain a direct approach to effective self-defense
  • Learn the art, logic and flow of IAW WingChun
  • Train in a fun and diverse community of students
  • Access live teachings from a WingChun Grandmaster
  • No prior WingChun or martial arts experience required

Download full 2014 Fall Event Series Flyer.

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Women of WingChun Video

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DSC05651The International Academy of WingChun and its instructors offer students of all genders a safe, effective and fun method of Self-Defense training.

In the following 3.5-minute video, we highlight four IAW Members who are women practitioners. Click below to find out: Continue reading →

My WingChun Trip Report

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Sihing Paul at IAW Event 2012.

Since 2008, I’ve travelled to Germany half a dozen times. I’m grateful for these opportunities to do so. Without my students, colleagues or teacher, this would be impossible. They support me physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, socially, financially. No one succeeds, though each one must proceed, alone.

Years ago I realized that I wanted to seek a path, to master something, to become extraordinary. None of this is a big deal. I am not the first to dream as such, even among the thousands to have come and gone in this last decade of the IAW. However, the sheer reality of necessary resources invested long-term is another matter. Continue reading →