Wing Chun Kuen Study Group

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The Wing Chun Kuen Study Group is a small group of martial art enthusiasts who meet up regularly on a hillside terrace near the north-eastern Italian city of Trieste to study the Chinese boxing method of Wing Chun Kuen and general armed combat.

It is a non business orientated group, but instead collects funds to both purchase training equipment and to donate to just causes.

All are joyfully welcome to train with us.

Four of the group members after a summer training session.

Contact with the group can be made through: mickey.bark @ gmail.com.

Davide Crevatini’s recent fight experience

Congratulations to Study Group member Davide Crevatini recently competed in a amateur western boxing event to gain a little fighting experience. He wasn’t expecting much, but he won!

He fought one bout of five rounds, the rules were Queensbury and he was obliged to wear 10oz gloves and a open helmet. Despite these ‘restrictions’ he won the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th rounds unaminously.

They were a bit confused about this technique, however.

So three cheers for Davide.

Michael Bark’s recent competition experience

On Sunday 17th of May I entered a fight competition in Padova. I occasionally enter such events to gain sparring experience outside of the group’s environment.

An outline of the rules are as follows:

Open weight – any weight could enter.
Open style – any system of martial art could enter.
Open grade – any grade of martial artist could enter,
No gloves or other protection – aside from a groin box.
Full contact kicks and knees – to both the head and body.
Full contact hands and elbow strikes – to the entire body.
Stand up with take downs – no ground work.
3 minute rounds – maximum of three rounds with about 10 seconds pause in between.

I had three fights in total that went the entire distance, one of which I won. The entire tournament was full of great learning experiences, on and off the mats.

Concerning my actual fights I saw the following points from which to learn from:

I noted that my stamina was pushed to the limit. Nine minutes of almost continual fighting really took its toll on me.
I realized that in the heat of battle the elbows of my punching arms at times lost connection and flayed out somewhat, which meant that I skimmed over my opponents’ bridges rather than cutting into them.
My legs were not strong enough to take the low round house pounding with ease, in fact as I write this, over a week after the event, I am still incapable of training.
In relation to this point, after I had initially closed the distance I failed to retain or stick close to my opponents, instead allowing them to break off, regain distance and pound my legs.
I saw that more study needs to be carried out in how to effectively take an opponent down.

I am sure that there are many other points that current allude me, but I’m sure these will surface in time even if I fail to write them down.

Throughout the whole event I was delighted by the acts of chivalry all about me. Men who only moments earlier had been pummeling at each other were aiding each other’s injuries. During my own downtime between each match, as well as after all my matches were completed, I received recovery advice and treatment from a competitor’s coach whom I had never seen before. Away from the mats the congratulations were shared and backs slapped in a completely uncondescending manner.

All in all it was a great experience, even if I am a little ‘inconvenienced’ as a result of it!

Wing Chun Kuen in the ring

Here’s a short musical clip of two practitioners ‘touching gloves’ in a boxing ring. If the music offends, turn your volume down.

Chain Punching

Here is a clip showing how one school uses different equipment to train the chain punch.