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WING TSUN

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Is WingTsun is only good for telephone boxes?

Most martial artists think that WT is only good for close combat. They believe we can ONLY fight in a telephone box. Even many WC, VT or not very well informed WT people share this incorrect opinion. But they are wrong. This is also why no less a martial artist than Bruce Lee, who was originally a student of the late Great Grandmaster Yip Man, believed that he needed ...

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2

Performing the Chum-Kiu correctly

The quality with which the forms are practiced has a major influence on the ability to apply the WT principles in actual combat.
The sequence of movements in the relatively short WingTsun forms is quickly learned, but even masters constantly refine their execution.
Naturally one could discuss countless aspects to which particular attention ...


 EWTO

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Honorary professorship for GM Keith R. Kernspecht

On 29th November 2006 the Head and Chief Instructor of the EWTO, Dr. Keith R. Kernspecht, was awarded an honorary professorship by the National Sports Academy (NSA) in Sofia/Bulgaria.

The NSA is one of Europe’s largest sports academies. Several thousand students receive their training at the 275-hectare ...

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Filosofi

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THE CONCEPT OF WU-WEI IN EARLY CONFUCIAN THOUGHT

Confucius believed that a person’s potential for achieving moral rightness in all varieties of a lifetime’s actions and situations was an essential part of his or her natural endowment. According to his understanding, the cultivation of rightness through the dynamics of interpersonal conduct and its realization in the social and political spheres enabled people to integrate ...

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INTERVIEW

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".....then Grandmaster Leung Ting would deserve the gold medal."

 

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free fighter: Sifu Stanislav Bagalev, Bulgarian National Trainer and Nick Peper, 2nd Technician Degree WT (UK) – an Interview

WTBG: Hi Nick, tell us more about yourself.
Nick: Hi Sifu Stanislav. I am 21 years old and I’ve been training WingTsun for almost 5 years. 3.5 of which I have been studying full time at the EWTO headquarters at Langenzell Castle in Germany ...

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Personlighed

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  HUO YUAN-JIA: The Chinese Hero

Huo Yuan-jia (c.1867-1910) was a Chinese martial artist and founder of the Chin Woo Athletic Association, a martial arts school in Shanghai.. A practitioner of the martial art Mízōng, he is considered a hero in China for challenging foreign fighters in highly publicized matches at a time when Chinese sovereignty was being eroded by foreign concessions and spheres of influence...

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BLADVÅBEN & ESCRIMA

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The SABRE - The Hussars Weapon

The first mention of the sabre in print comes in Marcelli's manual (1686). Originally the heavy, curved, weapon with which the Household Cavalry is still equipped today, it became known in western Europe during the eighteenth century as a result of the contact with the Hungarian light horsemen (hussars) who had originally derived the weapon from the oriental ...

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KULTUR

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Calligraphy: Reflections of the Divine

According to ancient lore, when a Chinese man named Cangjie learned the divine secret of writing, the spirits were so angry that millet rained from heaven.
Perhaps this was because one of the first applications of the Chinese pictograph system was in the practice of divination. This long-standing association between pictographs and the occult forces of nature helps explain..

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This magazine was created after an idea of  ЕWTO-Bulgaria and EWTO-Danmark.
It's aim is to reveal the richness of the Leung Ting WingTsun system and to spread the knowledge about the history & philosophy of martial arts as a whole.
For further information, you may visit the official website of ЕWTO-Danmark
www.ewtodanmark.dk or send an e-mail to info@ewtodanmark.dk

 


Designed by Todor Dyankov, 2006