BEAUTIFUL SPRINGTIME - The name sums up the Art!
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- The name Wing Chun is usually translated in English as beautiful springtime or praise springtime. Chinese friends of mine have told me that there's no connection between the name and any kind of meaning to do with spring or Chi rising. I disagree, not because I know better than them, but because I think the name sums up the art perfectly, so I choose to believe that it did have some meaning in the ancient days. The art is said to be 300 years old but I suspect it's a lot older, and that it came from Shaolin and maybe from before that. So it's a great meditation to stand out in nature & think about what springtime means, what being alive feels like, and if you're not young try to remember what it's like to be young 😀🌸
Hey Dave! Just letting you know that I am still here watching your wonderful insightful videos and learning great lessons from you. Your channel is very much appreciated and loved. Here in the states we don't have anybody teaching the Chu Shong Tin method so our only option is an online school like Nima King's Mindful Wing Chun school which I was a member of for a few months. Unfortunately for me, without actual hands on instruction to feel proper energy and getting much needed corrections and without having a partner interested in training Wing Chun with me, I can't currently pursue Wing Chun like I would like to. To really study the Chu Shong Tin lineage of Wing Chun, I would have to move to either Australia, or Hong Kong.
G'day mate, thanks so much for your kind words, it means so much to me that you continue watching and that you like the videos. I'm also very pleased that you feel that you're able to learn from me the CST thinking and approach. You might be surprised how quickly you would be away if shown the right way. You're always very welcome to visit here and come and see me. My dream is to have a country property with a dedicated training Kwoon in a little forest, where people can come from all over to practice with me. I'm going to make that happen. But in the meantime if you come anywhere near the Gold Coast or Brisbane of Queensland Australia or even Byron Bay, we can get together. The most important thing is to practice to switch off your conscious mind. Enter the dream, State and feel all the external World flowing into your centre. Touch the back of your head and say to yourself this is where I want to stay. Tell your conscious mind to go and sit back there and be quiet. Just do that in some lovely place with a cool breeze and trees. It's just a simple thing to switch on the right State and you will feel it. When you're ready start following my 'energy in hand idea, the Chi cultivation ideas'.
The next crucial thing is to learn to put your mind and hold your mind on an external point like a dot on a wall or anything else actually and hold your mind there. drawing and painting can really help this power because you spend hours with your mind on a point . So you stay in that initial no mindedness State and then you connect your mind to your partner and eventually to an opponent and that's all you need to do when you can do it you'll find that every movement you make is incredibly powerful and it only loses power when your conscious mind freaks out and grabs the wheel so to speak ha ha
You have to stop the bastard from trying to take the wheel! Cheers buddy, thanks so much for writing and have a great week!
Hi mate 👋 Sorry haven't said hi in a long time had a lot going on 😮
Totally agree with what you are saying 👍 It's pretty much what my Master (who was also Chinese) told us! But he called it Perpetual Spring Time! He said it was about always cultivating the idea of Spring by always renewing, growing and keeping the energy fresh. He would also say that its about the springy force we produce... However this was he favourite meaning out of many he had heard 😊 But I like it and it helps me! 😊 And that's another thing about Wing Chun.. Freedom to choose your own path and own Wing Chun!! He used to say, you have to eventually make it your Wing Chun! He used to say its not a style or system. It's a theory and a concept. And he was most insistent on this!!
I think thats what Bruce Lee did!! In my humble opinion with Jeet Kune Do. It was Bruce's Wing Chun. No one can do Jeet Kune Do like Bruce. Probably why all the old Masters taught every student a little bit differently when they got out of the copying stage 🤔 And that's what it should be no matter what we practice😊 Because I believe Martial arts help us to free our real selves! That's the real fight with the worst enemy we can ever meet. Ourselves!!!
Hope this finds you safe and well Brother!!
Take Care. Stay safe 🙏
John
Hi John, thanks for your marvellous comment! Wow, there is a lot of great things there your Sifu was spot on, it always has to be our Wing Chun doesn't it?I like how he said about it's not a style it's principles and concepts and that is so right. I remember being really surprised when my early teacher said you could use this for taekwondo or whatever you wanted. That took me by surprise but now I see what they are getting at . Even though I think our shape is very combat smart and obviously created by people who had done lots of fighting in groups or crowds and tight spaces. Real combat veterans.
Spring is a great word, and one of the most powerful experiences I ever had was one night demonstrating to something a friended asked, I got him to put all his strength and weight against my bong.
As he pressed in hard my mind entered a different state, and suddenly I couldn't feel him or me, it was uncanny. Then I realised that I felt like a giant spring held back and that my mind was the trigger, and if I let it go, I felt that I could throw him flying through the air. I was slightly tempted to do it for the hell of it, but then realise he would get hurt pretty badly and maybe take somebody else out as he was flying ha ha. I'm not exaggerating. The power was way beyond human power and that feeling of emptiness was Sublime. Like many other experiences I've had I can't just seem to replay them at will so that's my ongoing quest to find again, the things that I have somehow done right.
Have a great week, and may your Wing Chun ever prosper!
Hi Dave,
Great video! Thanks for making it :)
For a future topic, could you consider giving your perspective on the connection between Wing Chun and Yong Chun White Crain, please?
Cheers mate, thanks very much, that's an interesting topic and I have to admit I have no experience at all of white crane, though I can see what the connection would be. Great suggestion I will look into it. actually in practising all six forms, I constantly find one legged things. Totally crane like feelings and surely the two arts must be connected.
Cheers and have a great week !
Everlasting Springtime Karen Armstrong had told me when I was starting out. Probably no point pondering too much. Springtime is a new beginning . Something amazing will come of this beginning. Not unlike when you start to grow a new beard 😂. Looking good pretty amazing now Dave. Thanks and take care 🙏👍🏻
Thanks Rob, yeah the beard just keeps growing so I am just letting it go, needs a trim soon just to neaten the shape but looking forward to winter when it's cozy to be a furry😀
Hey Dave! This is from Wikipedia! the sinogram 詠 yǒng/wing: "to sing, to sing..."
the sinogram 春 chūn/chun: "spring, vitality..." : Singing spring! 😉🙏
Love it! singing spring, you can hear the birds singing in the background, even though it's not spring here, and singing vitality I really like that too. Modern humans are so divorced from nature (me included!)
Arts like ours are the things that money should be spent on to bring humanity back into balance and harmony.
I think the "Wing Chun Hall" in Shaolin was not beautiful spring (咏春). It was the Forever Spring Hall as in 永春殿. Nevertheless either way it still fits your idea of the power of nature, the power of spring. Some lineages of Wing Chun actually claim that the original name of Wing Chun was forever spring and not beautiful spring but was changed for some reason.