Wing Chun

Wing Chun YouTube #24: Not cutting off

/ Taoist philosophy in movement: Traditional Chinese bodymind practices with Ansgar Gerstner

The chopping arm: Steve Cook & Ansgar Gerstner – YouTube #24 Double Cham Sau 詠春拳的雙斬手

This video discusses the double Cham Sau, the double chopping arms movement in the Siu Nim Tau , the first form of Wing Chun from the perspective of internal practices not as a separating, but as an integrated and integrative movement.

„The Healing Aspects of Wing Chun“ – paper published in the Journal of Martial Arts Research

/ Taoist philosophy in movement: Traditional Chinese bodymind practices with Ansgar Gerstner

Now there is also an updated English translation of „The Healing Aspects of Wing Chun – An initial discussion of the Siu Nim Tau, the first form of Wing Chun“, a paper that was originally published in German. From this page of the Journal of Martial Arts Research (JOMAR) you can now download (the German as well as) the English version of this paper: https://jomar.dshs-koeln.de/archiv/artikel/the-healing-aspects-of-the-chinese-martial-art-wing-chun-an-initial-discussion-of-the-siu-nim-tau-the-first-form-of-wing-chu/

Ewiger Frühling? 永春?

/ Taoist philosophy in movement: Traditional Chinese bodymind practices with Ansgar Gerstner

Ich starte bald mit einer englischsprachigen Videoserie auf YouTube über die inneren Aspekte der ersten drei Wing-Chun-Formen (Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu, Biu Jee – 詠春拳的小念頭、尋橋與標指). Hier ist der Link zu einem Gespräch zwischen Steve Cook, San Diego, und mir, das die Hintergründe meiner Herangehensweise ein wenig beleuchtet: https://youtu.be/u585HnACyTk (Gespräch auf Englisch)