Hi Everyone,
Minneapolis Wing Chun is hosting a seminar at the end of June and I’d like to invited anyone in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area who is interested.
It will be on Saturday, June 29th and Sunday, June 20th.
Carl Dechiara will be presenting the seminar, sharing his insights on the Leung Sheung method of training, as taught by Kenneth Chung of San Francisco.
Among the topics to be covered:
- The importance of precise body structure in Wing Chun.
- The essential foundation skills.
- How to exploit your opponent’s weaknesses.
- Why the Wing Chun stance is so critical.
- Single sticky-hand training.
- Wing Chun fighting concepts.
- Developing relaxed energy for deep penetrating power.
- And more.
Carl has a high-level of skill and loves to share his knowledge. His seminars aren’t just a demonstration of his skill; he breaks down drills and concepts so that the student understands why things work in Wing Chun.
Beginners are definately welcome.
If you’re interested please contact me for more information:
Michael Mallory (612-987-5443)
E-mail: mmallory@minn.net
Minneapolis Wing Chun: mpls-wingchun.com
Carl’s website: wing-chun.nu
Yep, cant wait! Carl has an incredible understanding of what is important in wing chun, and how those things are applied. After seeing him in action at the last seminar, especially touching hands with an old instructor of mine I thought up until then to be quite good, I am convinced this is the real deal.
Just a reminder that this is coming up in just one week!
Michael, thanks for a reasonable, informative, non-hagiographic invitation to this seminar. Since I live in AUS, I won’t be coming, but I wish all participants a good seminar.
r5a, thanks for reminding everybody yet again. Maybe you could repost every half hour or so just in case some of us forget, and mention the same thing on a few more separate threads as well. It’s good you reminded us it’s only a week away, since nobody on this forum is capable of doing their own date arithmetic.
Perhaps a report on this seminar afterward would be interesting. I know r5a will be giving us one in enormous, hyperbolic detail no matter what, but maybe someone else with a more objective viewpoint could give a balanced perspective.
Re: Wing Chun Seminar in Minneapolis
Originally posted by Michael
[B]
Minneapolis Wing Chun is hosting a seminar at the end of June and I’d like to invited anyone in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area who is interested.
It will be on Saturday, June 29th and Sunday, June 20th.
Carl Dechiara will be presenting the seminar, sharing his insights on the Leung Sheung method of training, as taught by Kenneth Chung of San Francisco.
Michael Mallory (612-987-5443)
E-mail: mmallory@minn.net
Minneapolis Wing Chun: mpls-wingchun.com
Carl’s website: wing-chun.nu [/B]
Hi Michael,
Nicely informative post. Good luck with the seminar. I wish you success.
Please sum up what you learned when you get the chance post seminar.
Michael and Red5
Please do give us an account of how the weekend went, what was covered, what was uncovered etc.
Though me thinks Michael is an alias of Red5’s, used to put out posts without catching the usual flack. 
Just post clean Red!
And Red, a quick question. In your lineage, how is Chi Sau approached? After learning Dan Chi Sau and then Poon Sau, how does Carl instruct Chi Sau?
Set attacks and defence? Drills to exploit angles? Poon Sau with footwork? etc etc.
No- Michael and red5 angel are not the same. So,e transformations would be very self evident.Michael is probably the regular “instructor” for red 5- though it “helps”
to drop names(CD…) up the line. CD’s style is tp do seminars for his groups in Minn. and Seattle.
Seminar reports IMO if any however brief- should have some substance- what taught- how taught- some specific understandable concepts or content—otherwise why do
another “he was great- everyone learned a lot-nothing like it since sliced bread” boring space taker?
Black and Blue - We do foot work with double arm and we do attack and defense drills with each other, having the person with the higher level of sensitivity leading the exchange.
We dont get too technique focused we rely on our sensitivity.
Seminar
To Grendell, Anerlick, and Black and Blue,
Thanks for the encouragement for our seminar this weekend. Co-ordinating these things is sometimes a challenge and I’ll probably be the person who enjoys it the least because it’s my job to make sure everything runs smoothly. But that’s okay.
Not to worry, if I report what we did I won’t say something vacuous like “It was great! I learned a lot,” which means nothing to anybody. If I can be detailed or a bit specific about what was covered I will share it. If I can’t I won’t waste your time.
Also, Red5Angel and I are not the same person, as several have already figured out. Red5 is one of our hard working students. I’m the leader of our study group (I prefer “study group” to “school” because it better describes us at the moment and doesn’t sound as pretentious.)
Michael
Woops, sorry Michael, I should have cleared that up earlier!
I am not Michael, you are free to check out the site to see who we are, Michael is one of the instructors or leaders of our ‘study group’ and I am a student there.
Jason
Nice Site
Red5Angel… there’s a pic on the site of students in Jan 2002. Which one are you? Lets put a face to the posts!
What really disturbs me is that same picture. There’s a girl with REALLY red hair :eek: 
RED hair. Hmmm… is her name Angel by chance? Is she one of 5 children?
I’ve accused you of being Michael and was proved wrong. Now I’m accusing you of being the lass
Duncan
Ps. Get some mpegs up on the site! People today - they put up WC sites…
Black and Blue - LOL! No I am not the red headed girl! In the class picture I am in the back row I believe fourth from the left, white t-shirt.
Shock, horror quel ugly dude !
Hey! Ken Chung Sifu looks like he has some muscles! Do you guys work on building the body?
Originally posted by red5angel
Black and Blue - LOL! No I am not the red headed girl! In the class picture I am in the back row I believe fourth from the left, white t-shirt.
I hope you won’t take offense in this, but my first guess as to which one you are turned out to be correct. =)
Zhuge Liang
Why would I be offended by that? I have been open on this forum, that is me, albeit after two days of working hard at WC. We are all a little beat up and hagard but it was fun!
Originally posted by fa_jing
Hey! Ken Chung Sifu looks like he has some muscles! Do you guys work on building the body?
I believe he has a natural “bulkiness”. I haven’t heard of anyone training with weights, unless it was on their own.
I wish I had arms that big!
Nope Fa_jing, he has just natural been sort of a solid man. I think some of his pole excersise might give him strong forearms but in general we are told to avoid weight training etc.. it isnt necessary. the soft approach doesnt need it so we dont work on it. I think Leung Sheung was even a little bigger then Ken!
to Michael
I just realized that you were the guy I used to talk a lot with on Yahoo Clubs. Hope your training is going well!
To Aelward
Hi Aelward.
I saw your name the other day. I was going to drop you a line but you beat me to it. It’s been a while since I posted at the old Yahoo forum.
Thanks for the encouraging word, as always. You were one of the more level-headed, no-nonsense voices on that forum.
My training is progressing, slowly and methodically. The wing chun I did before was in the Leung Sheung family, as it is now; it was just incomplete in some areas. Carl Dechiara showed me what was missing from my wing chun and what was possible if I worked on correcting some fundamentals. I was so convinced of his methodology that I adopted his training curriculum. The essence which was not passed on to us from my previous teacher and his teacher was how to develop a powerful root and using it to channel your opponent’s energy without having to move much. Not easy stuff to learn. This all comes from Ken Chung, who doesn’t move unless he has to.
Our whole group started over from scratch last fall, learning everything over again from the beginning. It’s humbling for us long-timers but necessary. Before you can built a great tower you need to have a rock solid foundation. My foundation, I discovered, had cracks in it.
Hope you’re doing well, Aelward.
Regards,
Michael