Wing Chun Kung Fu

1. Sign Up Form Pacific Wing Chun Kung Fu Association Class times, and locations subject to Sign up for: Time Price change due to weather, and or class size. Child Self Defense 4-45 min. sessions. Ages 6-10 45 min 50.00 month Beginning Wing Chun Kung Fu 1 hour 50.00 month 4-1 hour sessions. Ages 10-14 1 hour 75.00 month Self Defense, Mind / Body Fitness 4-1 hour sessions Dedication-Honor-Respect Wing Chun Kung Fu Training Course 2 hour 125.00 month 4-2 hour sessions. 14 yrs and up. Advanced students will be interviewed by Sifu for placement No make ups Subtotal: Tax: Total: Name Address Phone Method of Payment Cash Check Pre approved Billing Signature Sifu: Lawrence Ramirez Guardian Class times, and locations subject to change. Wing Chun Kung Fu Wing Chun Kung Fu, and other techniques taught are dangerous, P.O. Box 4610 and are practiced only at your own risk. Pacific Wing Chun Association and all affiliates herein assume no responsibility Kailua-Kona, Hi. 96745 Martial Arts for injuries sustained to practitioner, or persons involved in any way. Phone: 808 345 5540 California- Hawaii Pacific Wing Chun Association wingchun.association@yahoo.com P.O. Box 4610 http://www.pacificwingchunassociation.com Kailua-Kona, Hi. 96745 Phone: 808 345 5540 wingchun.association@yahoo.com http://www.pacificwingchunassociation.com

2. The Origins of Wing Chun Kung Fu Wing Chun Kung Fu Today Wing Chun Kung Fu Association Lineage T he origins of Wing Chun Kung Fu may be Wing Chun Kung Fu utilizes the Snake, and My Sifu, Alan “Bak Fu” Vasquez, teaching Wing Chun since 1979, founded the Orange County Wing Chun Association. Sifu Alan Vasquez served as Captain US Army (Retired), Branched Infantry, and Military Intelligence; Viet Nam Combat Veteran, with Recon Ranger, and Special Forces duty. Sifu Alan Vasquez has for over twenty years taught many great Wing Chun fighters, and in recent trips to China, and Hawaii for competition, has received highest honors from Grand Master Wong Long, and Grand Master Robert Yeung for our schools true Wing Chun form, and true fighting spirit. traced back to the Shaolin Temples in the Ho- Crane forms of the Five Animal Fist Form. nan Province of Southern China in late 1670. The Crane aspect of Wing Chun utilizes quick Ng Mui a Buddhist Nun, of the “Five Elders” jerky side pivoting whole body movements, and considered an expert of the Five Animal with high stepping low kicks, and trapping feet. Form Fist, escaped the Sil Lim Gee Temple With outside body strikes, and outside in In strikes, also redirecting blocks. before Chinese soldiers of the Ching Dynasty invaded, killed all within, and destroyed the temple. The Snake provides for fast straight center- line strikes, short draws, and a blocking Ng Mui migrated to a temple on Mount system that redirects the attackers strikes from the defenders centerline, with Leung in Szechwan where she met Yim Wing economy of movement for greater result. Chun . The daughter of a traveling salesman. Yim Wing Chun was constantly bullied by a “Lin Sil Dai Dar” principle of attack, and local individual who wanted Yim Wing Chun to bow to his wishes. defend simultaneously, along with learned re- flexes to oppositional forces, the direct center- line strikes, redirecting pivots, the trapping foot Ng Mui moved by Yim Wing Chuns plight, movements, and high stepping low kicks make took her in as student.. Yim Wing Chun ma- a Wing Chun Fighter a force difficult to control. tered the Five Animal Fist Form., but found that some of the style was far to complex. The Wing Chun system is comprised of three With Ng Mui’s blessing Yim Wing Chun created hand forms, a two man touch reflex combat exercise, named Chi Sao, two weapon sets, and named her own kung fu system developed and Mook Yan Jong, the wooden man. mainly from the Snake, and Crane forms, of the Five Animal Fist Form. The principles of Wing Chun lend to the Buddhist School of thought, that if an opponent does not strike, I do not strike, but if the opponent strikes I strike last but hit first. The system allows for the practitioner to lend compassion the more advanced he becomes, due to the systems superior techniques, and straight forward economy of movement tactics. The tales are many, but from these humble beginnings came one of the most effective Martial Arts to date.