| Chu Shong Tin - 1998 Seminar DVD: Chum Kiu
Note: The description below is copied in part from the 3 DVD set of the 1998 Seminars (Sil Lum Tao, Chum Kiu, and Chi Sao). If you are interested in these DVDs we HIGHLY recommend you get the set. It is MUCH more cost efficient, and you get bonus footage and a keychain. You can get the 3 DVD Set here.
Master Chu Shong Tin 1998 Seminars
(Tsui Sheung Tin)
Yip Man's 3rd Hong Kong Disciple, Chu Shong Tin, covers the Chum Kiu form in detail and shows you how to toss opponents around with ease for over 3 hours straight!
Dear Wing Chun Student,
I don't know if you have noticed but there is a real lack of quality instruction on the art of wing chun in video format. I'm not saying there are not some good DVDs out there, because they are, but most are just glossing over the surface of things you most likely already know. You may pick up a point or two, but for the most part they are just a reference tool, not a learning tool.
I couldn't watch it with out taking notes!
The first time I started to watch Chu Shong Tin's (Tsui Sheung Tin's) seminar I knew what I was seeing was different. I stopped about 30 minutes into it. I got up and closed my door, got a pen and paper, took the phone off the hook and started over. After the first hour I had over 10 pages of notes! I wasn't even 1/10th of the way done! I don't know about you, but I had never taken notes off a video before (with, perhaps, the exception of videos from my personal lineage), but with Master Chu I just couldn't help it! I knew I had to write it down so it would stay with me and I wouldn't forget.
Since I come from a different lineage I usually just watch videos with a passing interest to see how other people train. Mainly just to be knowledgeable about the art in general. I never take notes on anything. Since Wing Chun is based mainly on theory it can be interpreted and used many different ways. This can make it hard for you to learn from another lineage. What may be true for one lineage is not true for another. (Take weight distribution for example. It ranges from 50-50 to almost 90-10. If the lineages that keep their weight balanced try to fight like the ones that keep their weight on the back leg all the time it won't work right, and vice versa). Most of what Master Chu teaches transcends lineages. Not matter who teaches you Wing Chun you can learn something from Master Chu!
I had never seen things explained the way Master Chu explained them. Things that I had heard before, but did not understand started making sense. (I didn't even know I didn't understand them until he explained them). The way Wing Chun uses circles and triangles started clicking and I was soon able to diagram many techniques and positions in a new light! I can't begin to describe how much I actually learned from these DVDs!
There is too much to list!
I wanted to list here some of the things you will learn on this DVD, but I honestly haven't had the time. This DVD is so packed with information it would take me a good 3 hours to just list out the highlights. You honestly can not go wrong!
Master Chu lived with Yip Man for about 5 years when he first started training and was the first student of Yip Man's to teach privately. During the first five years he got to the point of starting to learn the long pole. This means his foundations of Wing Chun were learned while living with Yip Man. One of the first sentences on the Chi Sao DVD is Master Chu saying he will show Chi Sao the way Yip Man taught him! No wonder these DVDs are some of the best material on Wing Chun today!
If you are interested in these DVDs we HIGHLY recommend you get the set. It is MUCH more cost efficient, and you get bonus footage and a keychain. You can get the 3 DVD Set here. |
