Posts by Philip

Robert Downey Jr Finds Wing Chun

Robert Downey Jr. credits Wing Chun with with helping him...

Master Lun Gai Foshan Wing Chun Association

The Lun Gai Foshan Wing CHun Association, established iIn...

Understanding Zen

In a discussion with my jujitsu teacher I said that I had come full circle with respect to a particular aspect of training. His response was to say that sometimes we think that going full circle is going backwards, or not having made progress, but this is not the case. Since the discussion, I was reminded of a quote in The Tao of Jeet Kun Do. Bruce Lee paraphrases an old Zen saying.

Milo of Kroton

Some 2,500 years ago there lived an Greek wrestling champion, Milo of Kroton, who wore the Olympic wreath six times, five of them consecutively between the 62nd to 66th Olympiad. Milo's strength was legendary as his the story about how he became so strong.

From Buddhist Nun to Bruce Lee

One day Ng Mui found Yim Wing-Chun in tears and it transpired that the local gangster had come to town and taken a liking to Yim Wing-Chun. He had sworn to return a short time later to claim her as his wife. Ng Mui could not fight the gangster herself for fear of exposing herself to the Qing soldiers so she took Yim Wing-Chun to the temple to teach her Kung Fu...