For anyone in Arizona, Sifu Don Grose from the Tucson Ving Tsun Academy is planning a gathering of Wing Chun brothers and sisiters. I personaly don’t have all the plans before me, but you can contact him via e-mail. This is I do know, it will be held at a park to keep it informal as was suggested. There will be no politic discussions, etc, and will be held February 1st. Just a meeting to bring us together and have a good time. Sifu Don Grose can be contacted via e-mail at sijodon@hotmail.com. I wish I had more details but I don’t unfortunately. Hope to see you there.
azwingchun,
Thanks for the information.
David
Februari 1 is a Saturday. I have an AM commitment but PM is a
possibilty.(Depends on a new family addition). I will contact Don for more info. Do you at least know
what city?
Joy C
<www.azwingchun.com>
yuanfen
More than likely it will be in Phoenix, possible Tempe. We are trying to find something central to everyone. There are some coming from Prescott as well.
Re: yuanfen
Originally posted by azwingchun
More than likely it will be in Phoenix, possible Tempe. We are trying to find something central to everyone. There are some coming from Prescott as well.
I would be interested in attending this.
JK
I’m going to be out in Sedona on the 12th of Feb. How far is the drive to Phoenix or Tempe?
Originally posted by mun hung
I’m going to be out in Sedona on the 12th of Feb. How far is the drive to Phoenix or Tempe?
Tempe is about 130 miles from Sedona. The trip should take about 2.5 hours depending on traffic and the day you make the trip…although now that I think about it the traffic going from Sedona to Phoenix should be a lot lighter than the other way around. A lot of people from the valley head up north on the weekends.
Wing Chun gathering
Sounds great! I’d like to join . . .
Please keep us posted on time and place.
I received an email from Sifu Don Grose, and he said the date was Feb. 2, but the time and place had not been decided on, yet. He can be reached at the address given by AZWINGCHUN, and would like to hear from those interested.
Sounds like things have not settled down yet. date change
and yet not defined time and place. Is this basically for Don’s own students and then expanded?
Apparently there was some communication error I just heard from Sifu Grose and it is on the 1st in PHX. They have not decided on a time or meeting place yet.
yuanfen
This has been in process for about 3 months now, at least discussion of it anyway. The date is Feb. 1st. He had originally wanted to do it in a banquet hall, but some forum members had mentioned to me that maybe a park would be better. This to keep it not so formal. So, we decided that maybe a park would be better. I have been in contact with Sifu Bradley (who is affiliated with him) and are throwing suggestions around. Anyone with any suggestions can e-mail me at chandlerwingchun@cox.net, we are trying to keep it somewhat centralized due to people coming from
Tucson and Prescott.
As for the question, was this for Sifu Don’s students and then expaned? No, I am not one of Sifu Don’s students, though we are associated with each other. Three months ago he contacted me and asked if Sifu Rick Frye from Prescott and I would join he and one of his instructors to start planning this. The plan from the beginning was to try and unite the Wing Chun family in Arizona.
Hope to see you all there.
Wing Chun gathering in Phoenix.
Wow.. It would be great if all the sifus residing around Phoenix can get together to exchange ideas and promote WCK as one family.
Sifu Loewenhagen, do you have an open mind to come and exchange some ideas? 
How about you, sifu Yuenfen?
Organizing something like this isnt easy. Arizona is a big place.
Don is in Tucson- so are many others there including Augustine Fong, Vaght, Lopez etc . IN Phoenix apart from the ones mentioned thus far there are Brian Tufts and others in Queen Creek, The Leung Ting Folks
have a headquarters here and there are others. If Don is organizing it - whoever is in touch with him perhaps can ask him to invite everyone. There was confusion on the date and time and place has not been settled. In my own case Saturday mornings are usually out witha commitment. Sunday would be better. the other potential problem for me is that I am due for the arrival of a grandson around that time… and those things have a logic of their own in time demands. But I certainly will keep an open mind as this thing develops.
yuanfen
I hear what you are saying, though this is just to get together as many as we can. But to be honest I don’t know that it will be all that big. But if this turns out to be an annual thing as he is talking about, I would hope and expect it to grow. For the most part this will be a meet and greet and open discussions. I am sure there are those who won’t come or even want to come. But hopefully as time goes on they will join the rest of us, this is the plan anyway.
As far as the park, this I will have an answer in the next day or two as well as a time. The month is still yound and we have plenty of time. I understand you have a grandson on the way, and this is understandable. But we would love to have you join us if possible.
I also don’t want to mislead anyone, this first one probably isn’t going to be a huge festival gathering. Basically, this is being done blindly, meaning we have no idea of what the turnout is going to be. So, according to Sifu Don, it will very basic, were not going to be cooking food and buying beer (LOL). Though, Sifu Don and I both have had a descent amount of replies. And for anyone who has connections with the Leung Ting group or the Fong group, and/or the non-organization guys, invite them. Again hope to see you all there.
I may be in arizona at that time and wouldn’t mind dropping by!
Destination of gathering
Some of you may have already received an e-mail from me stating the place and time of the gathering. But for those who didn’t, here it is. The time will be Saturday February 1st at around noon and go until 3 or 4. It will be at (as it looks right now) Chaparral Park in Scottsdale. For a map to the park go here: www.awcaonline.com/park.htm . If there are any changes I will post them here, but as of now everything looks great. Hope to see you there. And let’s get all the Wing Chun players involved.
All interested
Sifu Don Grose has asked me to have anyone that is interested in being at the gathering to please e-mail him, he is trying to get an idea of how many will be at the gathering. And for those instructors who can’t make it he has asked if you can at least send a represnative from your school to attend. Thanks again. His e-mail is sijodon@hotmail.com .
Thanks. I did email Don.
Unless a new addition to the family causes a problem- I should be there. So far the little man is doing fine.
I will be attending!
JK
Meng’s of AZ