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 Fighterman with Grandmaster Tsui Shun Tin direct disciple of the legendary GGM Yip Man FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/wingtchundo What is WingTchunDo? A brief biography and history Brief Biography,
Fighterman (Sifu Fernandez) began his martial arts training in the latter part of 1972 under the direct Yip Man LIneage of GM Tsui Shun Tin in Australia. He
trained with great passion and dedication under the late Sifu Jim Fung
from 1972 till the early 1990's. He had the opportunity to see other
lineages such as Master Wong Shun Leung, William Cheung and in the early
80's attended many seminars such as noted martial artists such as Guru
Danny Inosanto, Sifu Nino Pilla, Master Vince Palumbo and others. To
further satisfy his curiosity in combat he was able through the guidance
of these teachers learn the fundamentals in Kick Boxing, boxing, basics
in greek roman wrestling,stick and knife fighting from the Doce Pares
system. He then travelled abroad and learnt boxing in which he trained
for many years and also participated in various amateur bouts. He was
forutnate enough to have trained with serious boxing professionals with
the Italian Fernet Branca team. He also then learnt a variation of Wing
Chun from noted Wu Shu master Sifu Cangelosi in Italy Genoa, in which he
studied for approximately 2 years. When he came back to australia he
began in 1992 the GM Leung Ting Lineage under Sifu Stefan Fischer and
became his personal student for 7 years. He moved back to Europe and
then became personal student of Sifu Cuciuffo, Grandmaster Keith
Kernspecht and then finally moved on to becoming GM leung Ting's private
student for about 3 years.
In that period he also had the opportunity to learn directly under the second highest ranked Wing Tsun master in the world Master Chen Chuen Fun. He has also had the privilage to learn under many masters that completed the Wing Tsun system such as noted Sifus, Delisio, Cesana (to whom he learnt the wooden long pole, and learnt the Bart Chum Dao directly under Sifu Stellato in Caserta Italy. He has regular contact with many martial artists from different arenas such as Sanda, and people who compete regularly in the MMA competitions. He is good friends with noted former MMA light heavy weight champion Antonio Saracino, who recently was ranked sixth in the world in the FIGMMA statistics. Sifu Fernandez has for about
17 years (and is still) working as a night club bouncer. He has done on
many occasions personal body guard security. His hands on experience in understanding street conflicts and psycholgical stress is of great value when he teaches his students. SECURITY FOR MASTER LEUNG TING Sifu Fernandez was noted as being personal bodyguard to GM leung Ting during a difficult courtcase in which he eventually triumphed as victor. His experience and street smart appications made him do many years of
research in close range combat. He eventually developed Wing Tchun Do
which is a global application of the Wing Chun and Tsun systems. He now
terms his system as an approach to 'Global Chi Sao' meaning that he
shows how most fighting systems can adopt the 'Chi Sao' fighting
application from any angle, position and weight distribution. Fighterman
in approximately 2005 was one of the first foreigners to be invited
into China to show his WingTchunDo system and on youtube there are
rare footages of his seminars. He has over 2000 videos of his daily
training and many of his journeys into Beijing China and Hong Kong.
He intends to make his online videos available to everybody and teach the whole WingTchunDo system. Wing Tchun Do is a system that connects many systems of martial arts together. Who studies Wing Tchun Do will be able to better understand the mechanics of almost any martial arts. We feel that it’s a bit like a missing link, a link which with its working methodology helps you to relate and respect all true combat and martial arts systems and work them better with a unified working methodology.
WingTchunDo was born in 2005, it is being taught in two countries of the world and will soon be available online to the public Why create WingTchunDo? There are so many martial arts out there Sifu always felt that something was lacking in the modern teaching methods of certain martial arts. Observing the martial arts communities, and reading various opinions, blogs, magazines etc…. he saw many problems, politics, bad mouthing of other disciplines, non qualified masters, not thinking about the evolution of the student and rather more so developing better marketing strategies to earn more money from them. Disillusioned, probably because he too at times felt like a victim he didn’t want to identify himself in this negative light, developing a system based on the loved traditional values that one would look for in a martial art and then provide it as a service. ‘A martial art is a discipline, it’s like a school, it’s not to empower your ego’ Fighterman has many videos on youtube at this point well over 2 thousand, demonstrating his ability and also provides free online training courses for anybody around the world.
Who teaches WingTchunDo? Certainly creating a martial art is not an easy task, it’s taken at this point 37 years, and the art is considered as a ‘work in progress’ always evolving. Also it’s not easy creating qualified instructors. Furthermore Fighterman is not in a rush and he is very selective to who teaches his art and has a very disciplined training approach for anybody who wants to expand the teaching method of Wing Tchun Do. Up until now Fighterman trains and develops his instructors personally and he expects his instructors to remain pure to his approach of being a true martial arts teacher. ‘ I almost prefer teaching ability over physical ability, nowadays we have many people capable of striking and demonstrating their martial powers, but very few people know how to teach. Certainly being physically gifted is an advantage but people want to know what’s in your mind and how to work themselves to improve physical and mental performance Although this art still encompasses many traditional aspects similar to Wing Chun /Tsun, Wing Tchun Do brings it one step deeper and unites the Wing Chun/Tsun theories and amalgamates it with various martial art systems. This was done because many people with differing martial arts back grounds could apply the Wing Tchun Do to their existing training format without changing their style or training regimen. ‘ there is nothing worse than a martial artist after many years of practice in another style having to drop everything and starting all over again’ ‘I should know, I’ve been there before’ Wing Tchun Do helps you understand your existing style and provides an in depth view of how to train the system without leaving your own. Fighterman is very excited
about this. ‘ I always felt that their was a way in which martial arts could use a tool to reflect their work and applying it when comparing themselves with other systems’ Fighterman says ‘WingTchunDo doesn’t mean leaving the style you are doing, we have many programmes to help improve body mechanics and functionality in the art you are doing right now!’ WingTchunDo is unique and moves away from mimicking other systems and introduces a very realistic and practical approach to training which helps the student evolve on many personal levels of growth. Firstly understanding him/her self, understanding human nature, fear, tension, anxiety, and working on working with these elements to improve self confidence. Secondly, improving physical mobility, flexibility, strength, coordination and above all awareness and improved concentration. Third, working in a
family environment. Working with people like you, working to improve over all
performance and making friendship. That's what it's all about! Fourth , understanding self defence on all levels, learning what it means to use a martial art in a modern world and the necessity of grasping what the law permits or considers legitimate self defence. Fifth, returning to the martial arts values that so many schools seem to have lost. Last but not least Wing Tchun Do intends to maintain its purity by avoiding politics and aims to unite various martial arts and teach to respect differing theories and disciplines.
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THE HISTORY OF WING CHUN This is a very basic guideline to one of the many theories of how Wing Chun was born. Firstly note that Wing Chun is pronounced in many ways, from Ving Tsun, Ving Chun, Wing Tsun, Wing Tjun, and nowadays we hear of other families with historical traces with nominations such as Weng Chun, Black flag and Red flag Wing Chun. Needless to say this creates much confusion but it's best to understand that there are many historical traces that Wing Chun was formed from the Shaolin Monastery and that more than likely its origins go back as far as 350 years ago. Legend has it that the female buddhist monk Ng Mui, witnessed a fight between a gru and a rat, other stories insist on the gru and the snake because of the similarities in the executions of techniques. The impressive part of witnessing this combat was that Ng Mui was able to create fighting principles which made the art a nightmare when compared to the other traditional fighting systems of the shaolin temple. Proven as a quick, direct and effective fighting system it was eventually passed down to its succesor Yim Wing Chun. Wing chun was meant to remain a secret art in which public officials, military and police forces were meant to use.But word soon spread and Wing chun became (and still is) one of the most practised arts in China and perhaps the world. Today there are millions of practicioners and the style is still increasing in popularity still today. The most famous Wing Chun master in the world was the late Yip man, noted for having been the first to teach it to the public after it had remained secret for so many years. One of the most famous students of Yip man was the late Bruce Lee who then founded his own fighting sytem Jeet Kune Do. Yip Man had a handle of direct students in Hong Kong of whom one is still living GM Tsui Shun Tin (please note photo in header page) and Leung Ting. Fighteman had the honor to learn directly for Tsui Shun Tin's direct disciple Sifu Jim Fung and also partecipated in GM Tsui Shun Tin's seminars. Also Fighterman was direct student of GM Leung Ting and travelled abroad to China to learn directly in Hong kong. Today Wing Chun in the Fighterman's system has taken an evolution in which he has combined other combat system such as Boxing, Kick Boxing Tai Chi Pushing hands to name a few and unifying them with the Wing Tchun Do working principles of Chi sao The Wing Chun system is still being taught and Fighterman teaches it completely as taught to him by his predecessors including the WingTchunDo evolution as a method to improve body mecchanics, chi sao structure and combat structure of other systems |
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