Tim Halloran offers private Wing Chun lessons in Horsforth, Leeds. Visit our contact page for details and availability.
Private Wing Chun lessons offer an opportunity to learn the Wing Chun Kung Fu system on a 1 to 1 basis. Evening classes and Wing Chun courses are also available. Visit LeedsIpManWingChun.co.uk for details and to join the email list.
If you are unable to make regular classes, private Wing Chun lessons can be an option.
Private Wing Chun Lessons – What You’ll Learn
Tim Halloran has been studying Wing Chun for over 30 years and teaching since 2010. He began his Wing Chun studies with the lineage of Grandmaster Ip Chun through one of his most senior representatives Colin Ward. In more recent years Tim has sought instruction through Daniel Parr, of the Shu Shong Tin Lineage of Wing Chun.
If you’re new to Wing Chun, you’ll start with the basic stance and build up from there. If you’re a more seasoned “Wing Chun’er”, we can arrange training according to your experience.
The first step if you’re a beginner is to learn the first hand pattern or form, Siu Lim Tao. Siu Lim Tao teaches you the basic stance and hand movements. Siu Lim Tao (or sometimes “Nim” Tao) means little idea or beginning.
Private Wing Chun Lessons – Chi Sau
Siu Lim Tao gives you the basic building blocks to learn Wing Chun well and it is advised to practice the form every day, building on what you learn. You will also be shown some building blocks for Chi Sau, or sticky hands practice.
Chi Sau is the “heart” of the Wing Chun system and allows you to interchange with a partner using your basic positions, blocks and techniques. Chi sau is basically a fight put into a game scenario. It helps to develop the fighting reflexes of Wing Chun based on hand contact.
Before you can learn chi sau, you will learn some movements which help you understand some fundamentals such as pak sau, dan chi sau and lap sau drills.
The range of skills learned through Chi Sau are broken down into smaller training “nuggets” so that you can understand them more easily.
Standing Practice
Standing practice is something which can dramatically improve your Wing Chun. Chu Shong Tin focused on the internal side of Wing Chun, with an emphasis on students attaining Nim Tau through the Wing Chun stance. This requires long periods practising standing meditation. Nim means “mind” and tao means way or path.
The main goal of Standing Meditation (Zhan Zhuang in Chinese) in the Chu Shong Tin system is to be able to “sing” (rise-up) the spine and activate the Nim Tau point at the top of the back of the head. This occurs when the body is deeply relaxed such that the practitioner is able to send ‘thought’ through the spine, expanding and decompressing the joints between the vertebrae.
Then, the Qi is able to flow from the coccyx (base of tailbone) up through the spine to the Nim Tau point at the back of the crown of the head. If one can produce and maintain this state on command, they gain access to a far more efficient, relaxed and powerful way of moving.
For more information and to arrange private Wing Chun lessons with Tim visit the contact page and get in touch.
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