Lesson 1 will cover Wing Chun classic opening stance and our lineage of introducing the rolling punch.

Lesson 2 will cover the basic on guard position and will look at vertical punches.

Lesson 3 covers angles of attack and will be touching upon Wing Chun’s centre line theory.

Lesson 4 develops from Lessons 1 to 3 by introducing Wing Chun’s First Form, Part 1.

Lesson 5 completes the first part of the first form and thus covered the most used hand techniques of Wing Chun’s syllabus.

Lesson 6 is set aside for recapping, refining and reinforcing shapes and patterns learnt so far and to understand how to generate power.

Lesson 7 recaps on the various martial art warm up performed since Lesson 1 within the context of Wing Chun.

Lesson 8 brings together techniques learnt and drill exercise done so as produce more than one combination of moves.

Lesson 9 will then look at movement both in the traditional classic form and in the ‘modern’ form of sparring.

Lesson 10 marking the end of the Beginners’ ‘taster’ course would involve a recap of Wing Chun’s First Form, Part 1 with application.

My research found the quality of the translated books (expanded later on through the Internet) were generally self promoting propaganda, disrespectful of other styles and full of choreographed examples (e.g. “if someone does this, do this”) . But it was all I had. So, for years, I tried to learn Wing Chun in this fashion as best I could. No doubt I picked up endless bad habits, incorrect information and a false sense of confidence in my own ability. That was set to change. My Wing Chun breakthrough came about when I began training with Master (Sifu) Kwok in 2002. Sifu Kwok like myself had immigrated from Hong Kong. He was and still is a student of Grandmaster Ip Chun. It was Sifu Kwok who helped me to unravel the bad habits learnt in those early years. His teaching also reinforced personally my thoughts that there is more to the art than monotonously performing set pieces and worse of all to dilute the art through laziness. Namely, Wing Chun is not the most “natural” martial art to learn in the beginning. It does not have the flamboyant roundhouse kicks or rigid punches of “hard styles”. Faced with this, many beginner practitioners rather than persevere and learn the effective principles of Wing Chun, sought short-cuts by mixing Wing Chun with other styles without a proper understanding of either.

It was with Sifu Kwok that I have grown to become a Sifu myself in 2005. In my own classes I often encountered students who had some Wing Chun experience yet when put to the test their skills were flawed and plagued with bad habits. I’ve lost count of the number of such students who left, never to return to Wing Chun, having discovered that years of time, effort and money had been invested with a poor tutor. I was fortunate in this respect in seeking the truth early on. I put myself on the correct path of learning as soon as I was able. (Bad habits in Wing Chun are notoriously hard to overcome).