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’s September boxing event

In late September Davide entered his second Queensbury rules boxing event. He travelled down to Milan to join this large amateur display and came back crowned with glorious experience.

He fought two fights, for the first he was unanimously awarded a win, even though his ‘unorthodox’ style caused much tension among the trainers and seated referees. The result of which was seen in his second bout.

A change of referee was ordered and a far stricter rule was put into place. Davide was constantly hounded by the the ref who criticized him for using our system’s cutting punch technique and for simultaneously defending and attacking. Even so Davide was points ahead until he executed a Bong Sao to Backfist move which allowed his opponent to win with a 1 point advantage.

Will Davide try to fight Queensbury rules again? Well he hasn’t decided yet, but the next fight lined up for January certainly isn’t.

Nice fight Davide, as always you made us proud.

“You never see a boxer with a book.”

The above unattributed quote is one that I continually endeavour to fight against. I want to stress that I do not condone any members of our group to devote all their time on the study of combative arts at the expense of life’s other more important facets.

Our families and our continual mental education are on a higher standing than personal combat skills. We must be able to distinguish between needs and wants.

A punch drunk fighter does not contribute much to society, neither does an absent parent or partner who spends all of his/her precious time and resources in the juvenile dream of being a greater combatant.

When we meet let us train hard, let us use our training time to its greatest endeavour, but also let us know when to stop.

A Little Humour

Aaron Baum fighting in 10th Legion bout.

This is the video footage on Aaron Baum, an instructor level student of Sifu Alan Orr, competing in the May’s 10th Legion MMA tournament.

First round

Second and Third rounds

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