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I am new to this community and already feel an overwhelming sense of love and respect that you all have for one another. I’ve spent the last 3-4 years unhappy with my current situation. I am a good man at heart but have been swayed by drugs, partying, toxic people and over time developed a lack of self-respect, discipline and love. I see myself coming across this community not as a coincidence, but a necessary step in aligning myself with the man I have always meant to be. A man who guides, provides and gives space for people to grow. I want to become a vessel of love and inspiration. I am so, SO glad I have come across all of you. I wish you all nothing but the best along your journey. Thank you for the warm welcome ❤️ Namaste 🙏

The Difference Between Violin Practice & Wing Chun Form Practice. Just thought to share what my (our) Sifu @Sifu John Cogan had shared with me and a few other students who have attended classes at the physical One Tao Academy. @Sifu John Cogan shared this information from a book authored by Peter HOLLINS called “The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition” about violin practice and how the methods used in violin practice can assist us greatly towards acquiring any skills that we wanted to learn. The book outlines the importance to build neural pathways of any movement or technique by practicing them as slowly as humanly possible. The ability made about violin practice is that elite violinists would practice each note at a very slow pace. To be able to achieve this, the violinist must adapt a very relaxed and focussed approach. If the violin teacher walked past the student’s room and was able to guess or know the tune or song played by the student, the student was playing too fast. Now, relating the violin practice to Wing Chun Practice (or any practice for that matter), using Siu Nim Tao for this instance, the practitioner should practice each movement as slowly as possible, whilst adapting the same relaxed and focussed approach. Doing so will build the neural pathways to be able to execute the techniques at a fast pace whilst maintaining the relaxed and focussed state. A suggestion that I wish to make that greatly helped me with achieving the state is to start practicing the Siu Nim Tao form as slowly as possible while in state or during state meditation. Whilst doing so, do not rush any of the techniques and do not have any regard about not finishing the entire form by the end of the meditation. See how slowly you can perform the form whilst maintaining your state. You will turbo charge your level of state in no time. When I came to think of it, I believe that elite practitioners of all disciplines, not limited to soccer, football, dancing, snooker, hockey, chess, any martial art, etc. all possess some extent of the state.

Alignment & Letting go Here’s the image @Jason Ashby

I just wanted to say somthing about how ignorant I was when I first found Wing Chun Five months ago on YouTube and all I wanted to do was learn the art and the teckniek but not knowing really anything about Wing Chun before I found this group four months ago and I was mostly focused at that point on winning a dummy. Lol, but also still focused on learning self defense skill so that I could feel more confedent and or secure. I pretty much flew through all the SNT lessons the first two months and was practicing the first form throughout the day and still havnt stopped my daily SNT practice but i really wanted to learn hands on so I was looking for WC Schools around me and I found one just over an hour away I was planning on joining that was IP Ching lineage and this Sifu had learned directly from one of IP Mans sons so I thought that should be a pretty good school. Then I came across a video on YouTube that was John Kaufmans Wing Chun story and then he mentioned that he had learned the whole IP Ching System at the same School in N.Y. that I was looking at and that really sparked my interest about John because he must live around me and come to find out he did live in the same county as I do but had moved to Hong Kong after his experience of meeting a man named Marty Anderson at the Wing Chun museum in Ohio where they met up to play some Wing Chun togather at the hotel later that evening. Marty was Chu Shong Tins first white Student he ever tought in the early seventies when IP man was still alive and CST had to ask IP mans permission to teach him because he was white and i guess it was ok. So as John says he had learned the whole IP Ching system and had also been teaching for a while so he thought he was pretty good but then when they touched hands he couldn't move Marty and then he discribes being thown around like he was in a blender and could do nothing about it. And he ralized his WC was no good at that point and all he wanted to do from then on was learn the CST Method so he went to Hong Kong regurly to train in CST and eventually Moving to Hong Kong perminly where he teaches. So the point of all this is after hering his story my eye's were opened to the fact that not all Wing Chun is the same and no other Wing Chun is like Chu Shong Tin Wing Chun. Long story short now I'm not so focused on learning all the tecniechs as much as I an focused on becoming totally relaxed and at piece while trying to learn how to move without using any mustle force. Anyway I feel like I was ignorant when I came here but I finally got it.