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Depending on whether you want to train or teach traditional WingChun or innovative S.A.T. The following pages will provide you with all the information needed to assist you in the decision-making process. Whether WingChun or the S.A.T is the right Self-Defence Art for your needs depends very much on the values you have learnt to appreciate in your life. It is much more about whether pure function or the additional training of traditional elements plays a decisive role on your path. Who knows, maybe combining the two is an option worth considering.

 

 

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Concerning the category “traditional WingChun” we offer you on the last pages of this homepage the unique possibility to apply for your WingChun certification in the name of the International Academy of WingChun. The certification for the 1st Technician Grade already authorises you to independently manage a WingChun Academy. Simply order your certificate and start your career as a WingChun Instructor.

In order to preserve traditional WingChun, the International Academy of WingChun became a Licence-Free Organisation in 2025.

As all WingChun Training Centres were closed or temporarily deregistered in 2020, I developed a new concept (after a reasonable waiting period of five years) that made the IAW a licence-free organisation. Any committed Instructor can join the IAW and start their career independently. As mentioned, neither a licence payment nor any other commitment is required. Only the certification of the respective authorisation is subject to the IAW (WingChun Certificates). 

Regardless of whether you are just starting out or returning after a break. 
Whether we know each other personally or not doesn't matter.

I welcome you, and for those who are returning, welcome back!

 

 

I recommend reading my last statement from May 2025 (further down this page) to obtain a detailed understanding of the development regarding IAW.

Sifu Klaus Brand

 

 

 

 

 

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Statements (collection of texts) by Dai Sifu

May 2025

The great transformation

In this article, I primarily wish to report on my former ideas regarding the development of the IAW. A plan that could not be implemented due to the global changes (transhumanism and the attempt to destroy freedom, realism, and subjectivism), respectively, the impressively staged intelligence tests for the corresponding implementation, in which most failed miserably.

When I began, after my extensive research at the end of the 90s, to implement the facts described in detail in my book 'WingChun – The Way of the Warrior' (available on Amazon) regarding the origin, development, and especially the essential characteristics of WingChun (spelling is insignificant), I initially encountered reluctance even within my own ranks. Giving up something that one has practiced with passion for years is not easy for anyone. One had to completely rethink and, in a way, do the opposite of what one had internalised over the years. Only through the physical implementation and the resulting unclouded perception of right and wrong could one get to the bottom of the truth and unmistakably recognise the widespread misinterpretations. All these flawed interpretations of style, which existed back then and still exist today and continue to be conveyed, are based on the same misconceptions. A labyrinth created by conjectures and illusions, which only a few are able to understand and leave.

However, even the possibility of losing some students did not prevent me at that time from following the path that I had already clearly recognised as the true one. This fascinating art, the true WingChun, I had to make known, come what may. After the issues were identified, I had no choice but to follow my path. Nevertheless, the expectation that others would see what I see, was almost impossible, and so I hoped for the trust of my students. Even then, I knew that I could not convince anyone who did not possess the willingness, the indispensable thirst for knowledge, and the deep yearning to walk the right path. But gradually, all my instructors actually sensed how powerful they could become with this 'new' art, and they stood by me like soldiers in the persistent development and shaping of the system.

The insight and intuition of having found a way that turns everything known upside down and offers everyone the opportunity to achieve the incomparable led to a unified and great approval. A ruthless and precise art, unlike anything offered before, was in its infancy, and thus the IAW was born in early 2000.

Initially, I demanded a lot from my instructors and was amazed at how ready and strong they all were. Every single student or instructor who achieved the Technician Grade with the requirements of that time was, in my eyes, already a future Master of WingChun. None of the candidates had it easy under my guidance, and it made me incredibly proud to witness the emergence of a new generation of WingChun or self-defence experts. Men and women who understood what self-defence was about, unaffected by the shifts already noticeable in the 90s towards a direction that I would now, after 25 years, call the beginnings of 'woke idiocy'. These ideologies that emerged back then did not even spare martial arts. Since then, it has been the case that the more tender, dreamy, and imaginative a martial art is presented, the greater the rush. Martial arts with real structures and principles are still avoided, ignored, and sabotaged to this day.

How I see the future is fully described in my book, and I stand by it. A change always occurs in cycles. The initiation into the next cycle (back into reality) will be extremely painful for many people, but if they endure it, it will be very helpful.

I began to establish the IAW during an "epochal" time when masculinity, femininity, self-assertion, and especially the vital recognition of good and evil, or safe and dangerous, as well as ultimately logical thinking, were brought to the point of absurdity. The weak among us were led like mindless beings into a surreal world of do-gooders. Over time, real and traditional values blurred. Even though the laws of nature will undoubtedly never bow to ignorance and daydreaming, the dreamers still dominate the terrain. Only the true warriors among us could escape the swamp of nonsense in which the masses bathed, drowning their intelligence and instincts, and becoming obedient, functioning puppets. Today, real, self-thinking people are hardly to be found and are clearly the minority. That, in turn, was one of the topics in my German-language book 'Feindbild Mensch' (available on Amazon), which I wrote last year in just a few weeks out of disappointment over the obvious regression of the human species which I would now like to revise, or rather, supplement and improve.

Very likely, due to chronic indoctrination, a large part of our fellow human beings are now hardly able to formulate the simplest hypotheses. Lack of exercise, monotony, and poor nutrition cause the hippocampi to shrink at high speed. Especially in recent years, when most of us obediently went along with all the fear games, the hippocampi of many have already shrunk to such an extent that it is impossible for those affected to think independently. This, in turn, leads to recognising the thoughts of others (mediated) without questioning them as one's own. The well-known diseases, whose causes can be found in poorly functioning or increasingly difficult memory formation, are widely recognised. These diseases have existed since people have been deliberately neglecting independent thinking. All of this, mind you, happens on the basis of a voluntary decision. Paradoxically, the longing for recognition and acceptance is the beginning of the misery. The acquisition of special skills is consciously avoided in order not to be excluded due to intellectual superiority. Belonging is everything. Whoever embarks on such a downward spiral only needs to let go and run with the herd; there's really nothing more to it. A perfidious vicious circle, but let's not stray too far from the main topic. The free will of a person allows for the downward spiral to be recognised as a path, at least until the thought of free will involuntarily feels like an absurd conspiracy theory.

As mentioned, I was very proud of my instructors and had many plans with them, which I, of course, did not reveal to them at the moment. As soon as I had prematurely revealed my actual goals, those who value titles and degrees more than knowledge and skill would have rushed forward, and I wanted to avoid that. The IAW grew continuously, and I realised that the set goals could only be achieved with a large community of righteous instructors. So, I initially began to increase the number of training centres in several countries. I vividly recall when the Technician Grades (1st-5th) reached a total of 100. Exactly on that day, I began planning for future Sifu, Master grades, and even Grandmaster. I am publishing this goal here for the first time.

For the year 2020, I planned to promote all existing instructors and assistants who hold the 3rd TG to appoint them as Sifu. 2020 was supposed to be the year of great change and joint planning, in which I wanted to involve all the instructors in my plans. Years earlier, I had already prepared around 20 Sifu certificates for this event, and new ones were regularly added. According to my planning, there would have been more than 30 Sifu appointments in the IAW throughout the year 2020. I could hardly wait, and it was a challenge to keep all of that in mind.

However, things that one could not have anticipated happened long before 2020. There were instructors who left the IAW two to five weeks before their appointment as Sifu. I kept their certificate for many years because it was difficult for me to process this fact, and I hoped to welcome them back one day. I mention this merely to make it clear to everyone what absurd situations one encounters in life that one has to come to terms with. Some very dedicated individuals worked exceptionally hard and diligently for years to be among the best of the best, and just before getting this confirmed and certified by their grandmaster, they give up. An inexplicable phenomenon that I wanted to mention here.

For each of the instructors (worldwide) whom I wanted to appoint as Sifu in 2020 (and, of course, those already appointed as Sifu), I planned to offer an annual ‘Master Week’ (with more than 40 participants) to train my direct representatives. As mentioned before, the achievement of the goals was only possible if many instructors worked together on it. By the year 2025, according to my plan, I should appoint at least 20 Masters and, after 2025, even the first Grandmasters, who should take on responsibility together with the Masters and elevate the IAW to the next level together. I had actually already had the first instructors in mind, whom I would have gladly guided to the Grandmaster level. These new leaders would then jointly implement what would have been necessary to bring this fascinating art to the masses.

Today I wrote this down because I am reminded of those plans from back then as I look at my old notes in the year 2025. A worldwide implementation of the peak of these aforementioned ideologies, initiated in early 2020, caused this endeavour to fail. But even before 2020, a change was already apparent. With the burdens caused by the governments, only very few of the instructors at that time managed to cope, and almost monthly, one after another, they gave up. Just in the year when everything was supposed to change and the first Masters and Grandmasters were to emerge, what an irony.

To buy some time, I initially continued down the path alone. I left Germany and increased my pace to escape the tide of obvious idiocy. Numerous attempts by the media or other individuals to lead me down the path of the weak and obedient bounced off me. The art I teach requires a high degree of logical reasoning and a quick analysis of given circumstances. During my military career, I was trained to recognise these malicious attempts to influence people via the means of mind control and to act according to circumstance. Success sometimes requires a healthy dose of flexibility, strength, and determination and also a temporary adjustment to unexpected circumstances.

With regret, I had to notice how almost all of my instructors were broken and suddenly transformed from experts into below-average followers and yea-sayers. They merged with the masses into insignificance.

It is worth mentioning that I maintain regular contact with very few of the former instructors who found a way to stay true to themselves. These few instructors resumed their paths after they were able to sort out the things around them. Nevertheless: The time of turmoil changed everything.

Why am I writing this? Well, I would like to appeal to each and every one of you to define your path and follow your North Star. The hope that others understand what you see is merely a belief, perhaps a wish, that truly has nothing to do with achieving your personal goals. Whoever stops you from following your path is not your friend. As soon as your (success) path is visible in your mind's eye, let nothing and no one stop you from walking that path. Always ask yourself whether the goal you are aiming for is just any goal or truly your individual goal that makes you happy just by thinking about it. Was the path suggested to you, or did you recognise and visualise it as your own with your heart? Congratulations to all who resisted control and mental enslavement and stayed on their path, especially in the past few years. For all WingChun enthusiasts, I am fortunately still able to accompany them on their journey with my book and the precise explanations and aspects on the topic of 'WingChun'.

Fight your way out immediately and don't wait for problems to clear up by themselves. Don't let anything stop you from living what you feel deep inside. Maybe one day there will actually be Masters and Grandmasters who will ultimately represent me nonetheless and continue the path. If that's the case, then I look forward to meeting you one day.

In my life, new doors have opened, redefining my path. The management of an organisation is no longer one of my obligations. For this task, a group of master students was planned from 2025 onwards, who can now be gladly replaced by others. This year, after five years, I specifically launched the 'Trust Program' to set new, motivated instructors (and also former instructors) on their way. From now on, all instructors are equal and self-responsible. It would be a pleasure for me to witness how dedicated instructors continue and implement my original plan of spreading authentic WingChun in a timely manner along their own paths.

Will, courage, diligence, perseverance, and honour should be your companions.

 

Sifu Klaus Brand

 

Mai 2025      (Deutsche Version des Artikels 'The great transformation')

Der große Wandel

In diesem Artikel möchte ich primär über meine einstigen Ideen der Entwicklung der IAW berichten. Eine Planung, die aufgrund des weltweiten Wandels (Transhumanismus und die erprobte Zerstörung von Freiheit, Realismus und Subjektivismus), respektive der zur entsprechenden Umsetzung eindrucksvoll inszenierten Intelligenztests, bei dem die meisten kläglich scheiterten, nicht umgesetzt werden konnte.

Als ich nach meinen ausführlichen Recherchen zum Ende der 90er Jahre begann, die in meinem Buch ‚WingChun – The Way of the Warrior‘ (verfügbar bei Amazon) ausführlich beschriebenen Tatsachen bezüglich der Entstehung, der Entwicklung und vor allem der essenziellen Charakteristik des WingChun (Schreibweise unwesentlich) umzusetzen, stieß ich selbst in eigenen Reihen vorerst auf Zurückhaltung. Etwas aufzugeben, was man selbst bereits seit Jahren mit Herzblut praktiziert hat, fällt niemandem leicht. Man musste komplett umdenken und gewissermaßen das Gegenteil dessen tun, was man über Jahre verinnerlicht hatte. Nur durch die physikalische Umsetzung und die dadurch ungetrübte Wahrnehmung von richtig und falsch konnte man der Wahrheit auf den Grund gehen und die weit verbreiteten Fehlinterpretationen unmissverständlich erkennen. Alle diese mangelhaften Interpretationen des Stils, die damals und natürlich auch noch heute existieren und weiterhin vermittelt werden, beruhen auf denselben Irrtümern. Ein durch Mutmaßungen und Illusionen entstandenes Labyrinth, das nur wenige in der Lage sind, als solches zu begreifen und zu verlassen.

Selbst die Möglichkeit, einige Schüler zu verlieren, hielt mich in dieser Zeit jedoch nicht davon ab, den Weg, den ich bereits mit aller Deutlichkeit als den wahren Weg erkannte, zu gehen. Diese faszinierende Kunst, das echte WingChun musste ich bekanntmachen, komme was wolle. Nachdem die Missstände identifiziert waren, hatte ich ohnehin keine Wahl. Dennoch, zu erwarten, dass andere sehen, was ich sehe, war schier unmöglich, und so hoffte ich auf das Vertrauen meiner Schüler. Schon damals wusste ich, dass ich niemanden überzeugen kann, der nicht die Bereitschaft und den unentbehrlichen Durst nach Wissen und die tiefe Sehnsucht, den richtigen Weg zu beschreiten, in sich trägt. Doch nach und nach erahnten tatsächlich alle meine Ausbilder, wie mächtig sie mit dieser ‚neuen‘ Kunst werden konnten, und standen mir bei der beharrlichen Entwicklung und der Formung des Systems wie Soldaten zur Seite.

Die Einsicht und das Gespür, einen Weg gefunden zu haben, der alles Bekannte auf den Kopf stellt und jedem die Möglichkeit bot, Unvergleichliches zu leisten, führten einheitlich zu einer großen Zustimmung. Eine gnadenlose und präzise Kunst, wie sie zuvor noch nie dargeboten worden war, stand in den Kinderschuhen, und so erwuchs Anfang 2000 die IAW.

Zunächst verlangte ich von meinen Ausbildern viel ab und war erstaunt, wie bereit und stark sie alle waren. Jeder einzelne Schüler oder Ausbilder, der den Technikergrad mit den damaligen Anforderungen erreichte, war in meinen Augen bereits ein zukünftiger Meister des WingChun. Keiner der Anwärter hatte es leicht unter meiner Führung, und es machte mich unglaublich stolz, mitzuerleben, wie eine neue Generation von WingChun- bzw. Selbstverteidigungs-Experten heranwuchs. Männer und Frauen, die verstanden, worum es in der Selbstverteidigung geht, unbeeinflusst von den bereits in den 90ern erkennbaren Umschwüngen in eine Richtung, die ich heute, nach 25 Jahren, als die Anfänge der ‚woken Idiotie‘ bezeichnen würde. Diese damals aufkommenden Ideologien machten selbst vor der Kampfkunst nicht halt. Seither gilt: Je zärtlicher, verträumter und fantasievoller eine Kampfkunst dargeboten wird, desto höher der Ansturm. Kampfkünste mit realen Strukturen und Prinzipien werden bis heute gemieden, ignoriert und sabotiert.

Wie ich die Zukunft sehe, beschreibe ich in meinem Buch und dazu stehe ich. Ein Wandel vollzieht sich immer in Zyklen. Die Einleitung in den nächsten Zyklus (zurück in die Wirklichkeit) wird für viele Menschen äußerst schmerzhaft, aber, falls sie es überstehen, sehr hilfreich sein.

Ich begann also in einer „epochalen“ Zeit die IAW ins Leben zu rufen, in der Männlichkeit, Weiblichkeit, Selbstbehauptung und besonders das lebenswichtige Erkennen von Gut und Böse bzw. ungefährlich und gefährlich sowie letztendlich logisches Denken ad absurdum geführt wurden. Die Schwachen unter uns ließen sich wie hohlköpfige Wesen in eine surreale Gutmenschen-Welt führen. Im Laufe der Zeit verschwammen reale und traditionelle Werte. Auch wenn sich die Naturgesetze zweifellos niemals vor Ignoranz und Träumerei beugen, beherrschen die Träumer noch immer das Terrain. Nur die echten Krieger unter uns konnten dem Sumpf des Schwachsinns entgehen, in welchem die Masse badete, ihre Intelligenz und Instinkte ertrank und zu gehorsamen, funktionierenden Marionetten wurde. Heute sind reale, selbst denkende Menschen kaum noch auffindbar und deutlich in der Unterzahl. Das wiederum war eines der Themen in meinem deutschsprachigen Buch ‚Feindbild Mensch‘ (verfügbar bei Amazon), welches ich im vergangenen Jahr in nur wenigen Wochen aus Enttäuschung über die offensichtliche Rückentwicklung der Spezies Mensch schrieb und heute gerne überarbeiten, beziehungsweise ergänzen und verbessern würde.

Sehr wahrscheinlich ist aufgrund der chronischen Indoktrination ein Großteil unserer Mitmenschen mittlerweile kaum mehr in der Lage, einfachste Hypothesen aufzustellen. Mangelnde Bewegung, Monotonie und schlechte Ernährung lassen die Hippocampi in Hochgeschwindigkeit schrumpfen. Gerade in den vergangenen Jahren, als die meisten unter uns gehorsam alle Angsts­pielchen mitmachten, sind die Hippocampi bei den meisten nachweislich bereits so weit geschrumpft, dass es für die Betroffenen unmöglich ist, eigenständig querzudenken. Das wiederum führt dazu, die Gedanken anderer (medial übermittelt) ohne Hinterfragung als deren eigene anzuerkennen. Die bekannten Krankheiten, deren Ursache in schlecht funktionierender oder immer schwerer werdender Gedächtnisbildung zu finden ist, sind allgemein bekannt. Diese Krankheitsbilder gibt es, seit den Menschen das eigenständige Denken gezielt abtrainiert wird. Das alles geschieht wohlgemerkt auf der Basis einer freiwilligen Entscheidung. Paradoxerweise ist die Sehnsucht nach Anerkennung und Akzeptanz der Anfang der Misere. Auf die Aneignung besonderer Fähigkeiten wird bewusst verzichtet, um nicht aufgrund einer intellektuellen Überlegenheit ausgegrenzt zu werden. Dazugehören ist alles. Wer sich auf eine solche Abwärtsspirale begibt, braucht nur loszulassen und das Nachplappern zu erlernen, mehr ist eigentlich nicht zu tun. Ein perfider Teufelskreis, aber lassen Sie uns nicht zu weit vom eigentlichen Thema abschweifen. Der freie Wille eines Menschen gestattet es, auch die Abwärtsspirale als Weg anzuerkennen, zumindest so lange, bis der Gedanke an einen freien Willen sich unwillkürlich wie eine absurde Verschwörungstheorie anfühlt.

Wie erwähnt war ich sehr stolz auf meine Ausbilder und hatte viel mit ihnen vor, was ich ihnen aber selbstverständlich derzeit nicht verriet. Sobald ich meine tatsächlichen Ziele zu früh in Aussicht gestellt hätte, wären jene nach vorne geprescht, die Titel und Prestige mehr schätzen als Wissen und Fertigkeit und das wollte ich vermeiden. Die IAW wuchs kontinuierlich und mir wurde bewusst, dass die gesetzten Ziele nur mit einer großen Gemeinschaft von rechtschaffenen Ausbildern erreicht werden können. So begann ich zunächst, die Anzahl der Ausbildungsstätten in etlichen Ländern zu erhöhen. Ich erinnere mich daran, als die Technikergrade (1.-5.) insgesamt die Zahl 100 erreichten. Genau an diesem Tag fing ich an, die Planung für zukünftige Sifu, Meistergrade und sogar Großmeister vorzunehmen. Diese Zielsetzung veröffentliche ich hier zum ersten Mal.

Für das Jahr 2020 plante ich, alle existierenden Ausbilder und Assistenten, die den 3. TG innehaben, zum Sifu zu ernennen. 2020 sollte das Jahr der großen Veränderung und gemeinsamen Planung werden, in dem ich alle Ausbilder in meine Pläne einweihen wollte. Bereits Jahre zuvor hatte ich ca. 20 Sifu-Urkunden für dieses Ereignis vorbereitet und es kamen regelmäßig welche hinzu. Vermutlich wären es mehr als 30 Sifu-Ernennungen in der IAW gewesen im Laufe des Jahres 2020. Ich konnte es kaum abwarten und es war eine Herausforderung, das alles für mich zu behalten.

Allerdings passierten bereits weit vor 2020 Dinge, mit denen man nicht rechnen kann. Es gab Ausbilder, welche zwei bis fünf Wochen vor ihrer Ernennung zum Sifu die IAW verließen. Deren Urkunde behielt ich noch für viele Jahre, da es mir schwerfiel, diese Tatsache zu verarbeiten und ich hoffte, sie eines Tages wieder begrüßen zu können. Das erwähne ich lediglich, um jedem klarzumachen, welch absurde Situationen einem im Leben begegnen, mit denen man sich abfinden muss. Da arbeiteten einige sehr engagierte Persönlichkeiten jahrelang außergewöhnlich hart und fleißig daran, zu den Besten der Besten zu gehören, und kurz davor, dies von ihrem Großmeister bestätigt und beurkundet zu bekommen, geben sie auf. Ein unerklärliches Phänomen, das ich hier erwähnen wollte.

Für jeden der Ausbilder (weltweit), die ich im Jahr 2020 zum Sifu ernennen wollte (und natürlich die bereits vorher zum Sifu ernannten), plante ich, eine jährliche Meisterwoche (mit mehr als 40 Teilnehmern) anzubieten, um meine direkten Vertreter auszubilden. Wie bereits erwähnt, war die Erfüllung der Ziele nur möglich, wenn viele Ausbilder zusammen daran arbeiteten. Bis zum Jahr 2025 sollte ich, nach meinem Plan, mindestens 20 Meistergrade ernennen und nach 2025 sogar die ersten Großmeister, welche zusammen mit den Meistern Verantwortung übernehmen und die IAW gemeinsam auf das nächste Level erheben sollten. Ich hatte tatsächlich bereits die ersten Ausbilder im Auge, die ich gerne auf die Stufe eines Großmeisters geführt hätte, um dann gemeinsam das umzusetzen, was notwendig gewesen wäre, diese faszinierende Kunst in die Welt hinauszutragen.

Heute schrieb ich das nieder, weil ich mich gerade im Jahr 2025 an diese damaligen Pläne erinnere, während ich auf meine einstigen Notizen blicke. Eine Anfang 2020 eingeleitete weltweite Umsetzung des Höhepunkts dieser zuvor erwähnten Ideologien ließ dieses Vorhaben scheitern. Aber auch schon vor 2020 zeichnete sich eine Veränderung ab. Mit den durch die Regierungen verursachten Belastungen kamen nur sehr wenige der damaligen Ausbilder klar und schier monatlich gab einer nach dem anderen auf. Gerade in dem Jahr, in dem alles anders werden sollte und sich die ersten Meister und Großmeister herauskristallisieren sollten, welch Ironie.

Um etwas Zeit zu gewinnen, ging ich meinen Weg zunächst alleine weiter. Ich verließ Deutschland und erhöhte das Tempo, um dem Strom der offensichtlichen Verblödung zu entfliehen. Etliche Versuche der Medien oder anderer Personen, mich auf den Weg der Schwachen und Gehorsamen zu führen, prallten an mir ab. Die Kunst, die ich unterrichte, erfordert ein Höchstmaß an logischem Menschenverstand und eine rasche Analyse gegebener Umstände. Während meiner militärischen Laufbahn wurde ich ausgebildet, diese gefährlichen Versuche der Beeinflussung und die Mittel der Gedankenkontrolle zu erkennen und entsprechend der Umstände zu handeln. Erfolg erfordert mitunter ein gesundes Maß an Flexibilität, Stärke und Entschlossenheit und zudem eine zeitweilige Anpassung an unerwartete Umstände.

Mit Bedauern musste ich feststellen, wie fast alle meiner Ausbilder gebrochen wurden und urplötzlich vom Experten zum unterdurchschnittlichen Mitläufer und Ja-Sager wurden. Sie verschmolzen mit der Masse in Bedeutungslosigkeit.

Es bleibt zu erwähnen, dass ich mit sehr wenigen der ehemaligen Ausbilder, die eine Möglichkeit fanden, sich selbst treu zu bleiben, bis heute regelmäßigen Kontakt pflege. Diese wenigen Ausbilder nahmen ihren Weg wieder auf, nachdem sie die Dinge um sie herum ordnen konnten. Dennoch: Die Zeit der Wirren veränderte alles.

Weshalb schreibe ich das? Nun, ich möchte hier an jeden Einzelnen appellieren, seinen Weg zu definieren und seinem Nordstern zu folgen. Die Hoffnung, dass andere verstehen, was du selbst siehst, ist lediglich ein Glaube, vielleicht ein Wunsch, der mit dem Erreichen deiner persönlichen Ziele wahrlich nichts zu tun hat. Wer dich davon abhält, deinen Weg zu gehen, ist nicht dein Freund. Sobald dein (Erfolgs)Weg in deinem inneren Auge sichtbar ist, lass‘ dich von nichts und niemandem abhalten, diesen Weg zu gehen. Frage dich immer, ob das Ziel, welches du anvisierst, irgendein Ziel oder tatsächlich dein individuelles Ziel ist und alleine der Gedanke daran dich glücklich macht. Wurde dir der Weg suggeriert oder hast du ihn mit deinem Herzen als den deinen erkannt und selbst visualisiert? Glückwunsch an alle, die der Kontrolle und der geistigen Versklavung standhielten und gerade in den vergangenen Jahren auf ihrem Weg blieben. 

Für alle WingChun Enthusiasten bleibt mir glücklicherweise die Möglichkeit, diese mit meinem Buch und den präzisen Ausführungen und Aspekten zum Thema ‚WingChun‘ auf ihrem Weg zu begleiten.

Kämpfe dir deinen Weg sofort frei und warte nicht, bis er frei wird. Lass dich nicht davon abhalten, das zu leben, was du tief in dir fühlst. Vielleicht gibt es tatsächlich eines Tages Meister und Großmeister, die mich letztendlich dennoch vertreten bzw. den Weg weitergehen. Wenn dem so ist, dann freue ich mich, dich eines Tages kennenzulernen.

In meinem Leben haben sich neue Türen geöffnet, wodurch sich mein Weg neu definierte. Die Leitung einer Organisation gehört nicht mehr zu meinen Obliegenheiten. Für diese Aufgabe war ab 2025 eine Gruppe von Meisterschülern vorgesehen, an deren Stelle nun gerne andere treten können. In diesem Jahr, nach fünf Jahren, habe ich speziell dafür das ‚Trust Program‘ ins Leben gerufen, um neue, motivierte Ausbilder (und auch ehemalige Ausbilder) auf den Weg zu bringen. Fortan sind alle Ausbilder gleichberechtigt und eigenverantwortlich. Es wäre mir eine Freude, mitzuerleben, wie engagierte Ausbilder meine damalige Planung, nämlich das echte WingChun zu verbreiten, auf ihrem Weg zeitlich versetzt fort- und umsetzen.

Wille, Mut, Fleiß, Beharrlichkeit und Ehre sollen deine Begleiter sein.



Sifu Klaus Brand

January 2013

IAW - The Special Forces of WingChun

From the outset I wanted to establish the IAW as an elite Academy. Now, after 10 years, I have put all of my plans into action and my objectives are entirely realized.

To understand why I call the IAW the Special Forces of WingChun, we must take a little trip into my past. I joined the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) in 1985 and became a professional (government contracted) soldier in 1990. I was then appointed as an Instructor at a Military Academy. That same year I successfully completed the requisite qualifications and passed the test for the Lone Fighter (Einzelkämpfer) and Commando Leader (Jagdkommando-Führer) Program of the German Army. I always strived for perfection and the more specialized the education was, the more I wanted to pursue it. So one course followed another.

Even before that time, while serving my term as a soldier in the late 80s, I started (after approximately 20 years of experience in the Martial Arts) with WingChun training and weapons fighting in order to master the Art of War in these disciplines as well. Even during my first few years as a Student Level it became clear to me that this was exactly my future and I would devote my life from then on to the Combat Arts and realistic Self-Defence. After 32 months of training I passed my first Technician Grade. From then on, everything progressed accordingly as one graduation proceeded to the next. I resigned my official status in the Army and started to work as a WingChun Instructor from scratch, so to speak, 20 years ago. That was in fact the most interesting and audacious change of my life.

However, by the end of the 90s I technically concluded my former Self-Defence system and had to make a subsequent change. The association to which I then belonged occupied itself year after year with the gratification of mass dreams and the style became increasingly absurd and correspondingly mainstream. Mass group exams were introduced in which the individual only had to be physically present but was not subjected to an actual test. At that point, I worked exclusively to preserve a knowledge, which was under the threat of extinction, and moved further and further beyond the masses with my own style. 

In 2003 I founded the International Academy of WingChun to build an elite Academy for WingChun. In the year 1998, while the system I trained at that time was approaching its climax of absurdity, I began to develop a new training concept, new principles, new movement patterns, new Sections, new Forms, a new Chi Sao and eventually an entirely new system. So I could, upon founding the IAW, immediately present my system.

I have never forgotten the basis of my Special Forces training. An elite education requires a unique concept and regular testing of the aspirants. Testing results in teachers honestly confirming whether their students have reached the training goal and are ready for the ensuing step or not.

Whoever fails to test their students certainly never belonged to an elite. A well-trained teacher knows how important a test is for the development and progress of his students. Students who truly believe in themselves will actually want to put themselves forward for testing. The avoidance of genuine tests only satisfies one purpose; namely, that the instructor need not tell someone how bad he is. Lousy teachers avoid testing their students because every test is a test of themselves. 

Specialists can only be trained with a tangible concept. Wanting to belong to an elite is an honourable aspiration. With will, diligence and perseverance (three of our Five IAW Virtues) anyone can do it. In the IAW, the examination of a Technician Grade occurs over two consecutive days and takes about 7-8 hours overall. I consider it a privilege to personally conduct these tests without exception, because this is the only way to check and ultimately verify the advanced standard of Technician Grades.

The fundamentals of an elite education must never be forsaken. The essential principles of education, namely demonstration, replication, practice, practice, practice, practice became in many diverse associations demonstration, self-interpretation and discussion. It should be clear to everyone that you cannot nurture an elite as such. I smile when I read in particular advertisements that "We have even trained Special Forces". Who of those claiming such a thing even knows what Special Forces means let alone how they operate? I know it right down to the smallest detail. 44 years of my life I devoted to the Martial Arts and the Combat Arts, during which I enjoyed more than 10 years of quality education in the Army and 15 years developing my WingChun system. As Leader of the International Academy of WingChun, my present position benefits from the insights of my past. Certain principles cannot be neglected for an elite education. So I designed the training concept of WingChun precisely to these specifications. Today I can assert that every teacher of the IAW who has attained the 2nd Technician Grade and the Instructor Degree II definitely belongs to the elite and was trained by me in part according to the conditions of Special Forces. Furthermore, each IAW 2nd Technician Grade is not only an expert of Self-Defence, but also a specialist in weapons fighting as well as close combat. Even the capability to handle striking, slicing and stabbing weapons is an important factor that must be dealt with in order to comply with the training duties of a Technician Grade in the International Academy of WingChun.

Naturally, not everyone reaches the requirements of an elite student in the same timeframe. On the other hand, each person may take however long he or she needs. There are no time constraints in the IAW which must be strictly observed in order to achieve this target.

Furthermore, this is a reason why I do not acknowledge graduations of other organizations and styles. The validation of certifications from other organizations is a clear sign that their Leaders merely care about the appeasement of desires and dreams rather than setting a specific standard. As soon as the Leader of an organization accepts graduations from another organization, this undeniably demonstrates that it has nothing exceptional (of its own) to offer.

Of course, we are concerned about quality, not quantity. And it is self-evident that those who dread real testing will stay away from the IAW. But the ones that earn a Technician Grade in the IAW can be proud of themselves. Only a select few do so.

People often tell me it is easier in other organizations to acquire a high degree or to lead a group. But of course it is. After all, we are the International Academy of WingChun. 

 

Sifu Klaus Brand

September 2012

Collision, the only solution                           

Actually, as a WingChun Grandmaster, I use the word “collision” to characterize the encounter of an attack with a defence.

If there is no collision in a fight then there was never an attack.

After my article “Let’s Collide” I received countless emails, which I incidentally replied to without exception, questioning why I spoke about collision in our style and exactly what I meant by it. In many messages I was even asked about my opinion of sparring. I will address both of these topics here.

The fact is that I developed 15 years ago an entirely new system with the name WingChun.

Many organizations were established only to create new associations and new logos. However, technically everything invariably remained the same. These egoistic intentions can hardly be described as innovative. And that is precisely the cause of complications in the scene: new labels but identical, altogether pirated content. In my system no one finds a single known technique, especially if one has trained for ten or more years W-T or its innumerable derivatives. I recommend everyone to personally learn our WingChun. Our WingChun is unique and this is what all of us, Students and Instructors of the IAW, are proud of.

Our Team will help anybody who restarts in the International Academy of WingChun. Everyone is welcome!

Brief Elucidation of the Topic “Sparring”.

Practicing a combat art with sparring can only be seriously considered at the level of a small child. It is impossible to measure real Self-Defence skills via sparring, above all because protective gloves are worn. One strikes with gloves because the opponent is unable to ward off ones blows. Therefore, during WingChun classes, wearing training gloves is not allowed since they would radically impair our substantiality and efficacy. Training gloves serve to protect the opponent. However, the attacker is scarcely responsible for the protection of his opponent. In Self-Defence, the opposite is the case. Only your own protection is of interest. Nothing else. We defend ourselves using our hands and arms without protective gear and we attack without it as well. Protection lies in ability and not in some equipment. Anyone who wants to practice WingChun sparring definitely has a high-grade deficit, either in his competence or comprehension.

Sparring is trained in sports where no Self-Defence skills are taught. It is that simple. Sparring is a necessary exercise variant in many fighting sports. I have never heard of students from these fighting sports who train our Chi Sao to harden their arms or WingChun Forms to improve their body tension and coordination. Why should students of Self-Defence arts delight in training exercises from fighting sports? That makes no sense whatsoever but shows just how confused and uninformed many are.

The WingChun training of the IAW is significantly harder than any sparring. I suppose that many arts offer their students no assurance and thus rely on sparring to provide a “strong” feeling now and then. This suggests a sorry training program. Anyone who trains properly does not need sparring to feel strong. WingChun is bone-hard training. Whoever can sustain a training Class or a complete Seminar is anyhow strong. Our students are strong and not only that. They are capable, well-trained and ready.

And now back to the main topic of this article, Collision.

One with the intention to score a hit inevitably leads towards a collision. Either the punch meets its fist upon the target or its arm collides with a defence. There is de facto no other possibility.

Now a lot of “artist fighters” extraordinarily believe they can somehow neutralize the punch of an opponent. Some wish to steal the power of an opponent, while some speak about borrowing it and still others hope passivity will render an attack ineffective. They train their sensitivity by beginning with the touching of arms. That is absurd. The error lies in misconstruing the beginning of a fight.

A fight always starts before touching and the so-called touch or contact is only the end of an attack, namely a brutal collision.

Hence, there is no touching in the sense of a “gentle contact” but rather the merciless end of a movement. It seems likely that many use the words “fighting art” in reference to their style just to avoid demanding training with its indispensible effort. I have nothing against students calling WingChun a sport because it is indeed. Personally, I prefer the term combat art.

To believe the fight begins with a touch and the assumption that one can react correctly after the touch is schizophrenic.

This trained sensory disorder arises when one trains for an extended period within a homogenous community that starts where a real fight ends. Primus error veniam meretur. One makes it easy for oneself by training tactile constellations that never exist in a real fight. Thus one naturally spares oneself from hard and realistic training. However, there are no inconsequential touches. Those who start training by first contacting the arms of an opponent, strictly speaking, trains nothing. Every attack and each defence ends with a contact. A fight is interesting before and after the contact or collision. The collision mentioned earlier inevitably occurs during the coincidence of an attack and a defence. The resulting contact is entirely irrelevant. Only those who are well-trained and stable enough to withstand an attack can proceed to their own attack.

Sensitivity training is nonsense and has nothing to do with a combat art.

But this confusion has its origin. Since some time there are self-proclaimed school leaders who offer to learn their system within a few weeks and others who do not even produce a grading system. Whoever can show his system in a couple weeks is thereby merely saying: “Although I can do nothing, I’d like to share with you.” Such dismal offers are not worth further thought. It is precisely this mass trash that led to the present dilemma.

However, anyone who does not provide a grading system definitely has no structure nor places any worth in technical standards. This is a sort of hippie structure in the scene (Peace, we are all alike). Those who start learning from such so-called instructors lose valuable time and have nothing in the end. Or, he goes one step further down a blind alley and announces himself an instructor. And exactly thus, the perversion of different styles reached it present peak. What do you expect in training sites where a grading system is unavailable and hence no Grandmaster who provides and upholds a clear and logical structure?

No we are not all alike.

One learns faster, another slower, one trains more, another less. Everyone is responsible for his individual progress in the group. Trying to compare a new student with an advanced one after about two years of experience is unfair. After two years, a student reaches the 8th or 9th Student Level and thus belongs to the Upper Levels.

An organization that is unable to come up with highly graded students attempts to conceal in a clumsy way that there is no progress.

Development is never possible without a graduation system because there would be no beginning and, above all, no middle. One can only ever orient oneself to higher grades. The graduation is the indicator, the guideline and the pride of a system. Students with higher graduations occasionally serve as an orientation and a motivation and demonstrate how good one can become with structured training.

WingChun is a perfect sport.

We perpetually develop our personal power, technical understanding and consequently our swiftness of thought and action. A necessary degree of imperviousness to pain is already achieved through our high training standard after the first testing of the Basic Levels. Moreover, we strengthen our bones to be well prepared to withstand every conceivable attack. Because this is exactly what Self-Defence is for.

Only one who trains hard and feels strong enough is able to trust oneself.

We demand and develop our students to perfection. WingChun serves as both physical exercise and Self-Defence. There is no better combination of fitness training paired with the construction of a purposeful and functional coordination.

 

Sifu Klaus Brand

March 2012

Let’s collide

WingChun - the way to become skilled

A functional self-defence art strengthens the ligaments, the bones and, of course, the musculature of the whole body. It is a fact that one has to strengthen and harden specific parts of the body to resist the initial collision of a real attack. There is no doubt that if you do not strengthen you arms adequately you will never be able to defend yourself. Because we use our arms for both attacking and defending, the forearm bones and surrounding musculature in particular should be conditioned. A few bruises in the beginning are entirely normal. It is no different if you are a man or a woman. Everyone has to go through it. Real ability is the reward.

For non-members I should, at this point explain that we do not teach Wing Chun, but WingChun. Our WingChun is the opposite of Wing Chun. I myself learnt the complete Wing Chun system as the second generation student of Yip Man from his Master student. After I learnt Wing Chun I could no longer teach it because it became clear that it is an illogical, non-functional and un-structured method with which no-one can defend themselves. I came to realise that it was all just a mixture of trash and fantasies. At that time there were no alternatives and only I had doubts about this method.

Today I am grateful that I began that way because only in doing so could I realise how senseless it was. The further I progressed the more grotesque that Wing Chun became. With every new technique came ever more discord. As a traditionalist, the developments of that time became unbearable for me. There was no other option for me but to immediately begin creating a system which worked with the fundamental concepts of the combat arts. I searched for the original intentions in the development of this martial art. For more than 10 years I worked tirelessly to complete my WingChun system. Today, I offer an alternative to those people who are looking for real self-defence with traditional values. Our style is called WingChun.

I have explained my standpoint regarding the degeneration of Wing Chun in previous articles. This degeneration has resulted in students becoming weak and compliant. For self defence these are fatal conditions. Weakness and compliance are the precursors to failure and mark the end of any possible development.

Back to WingChun. Most of our students need several months to strengthen themselves and acclimatise the forearm bones to collisions. Whoever perseveres with this and, perhaps after approximately one year, reaches the 4th Student Level, is already successful. With the beginning of Chi Sau training (5th Student Level), following the core self-defence training, the next step of conditioning begins.

Chi Sau Sections contain a vast array of strong collisions. The 1st Chi Sau Section, besides teaching you superior technical abilities, is for strengthening the whole body with the goal of using it as a base and a coordinated unit. The forearm bones have to sustain many powerful collisions. They become extremely stable and de-sensitised and as a result, after a strong defence you are capable of performing a decisive counter-attack.

With the completion of the 1st Section the student has reached the Upper Level. Their awareness of a collision is now completely different. Their body is stronger and the forearm bones can withstand collisions which could never have been imagined at the outset. At this level the students repeat strikes hundreds of times and become steadily stronger, harder and, ultimately, faster. It is at this stage that the students begin to miss this type of training if they do not attend regularly.

Strengthening and conditioning is enjoyable and changes the feeling of the whole body. Real self-defence ability is a very particular perception. Speed, power and advanced technical ability combine to give a sense of real freedom and confidence. The student begins to become one with every muscle in their body and feels capable and liberated. You can never fool your subconscious. A combat art has to be trained correctly. Only in that way you can develop the correct attitude and a natural feeling of security and confidence.  

I and my Academy Leaders tire of hearing about sensitivity training, yielding and softness in connection with self defence training. This is simply absurd. If you do not want to train seriously, it would be better to look for a new hobby rather than ignore the logic and tradition of combat whilst pretending you are learning self-defence.

To my students an important piece of advice: Don’t let anyone who plays martial art games in certain clubs tell you how self-defence works because you are too well trained. After a few months of the above-described education it should not be a problem to distinguish between fantasies and reality. Remember the bruises on your arms in the early stages and remember the effort it took to acquire every single technique. Not everyone can achieve that. You can be proud.

Fighting is a conflict or war (not a sport) and it has nothing to do with yielding and softness. Even the effort to master adversity in life can be called fighting. Therefore fighting is part of living, of being human. 

Living means fighting. Those who live, fight – those who fight, live.

 

Sifu Klaus Brand

February 2011

Sapere aude!                                                                               

Dear Students of WingChun. For the last 13 years I have been offering a unique and newly designed WingChun system. In 2003 I established the IAW in order to offer this style internationally along with my first professional WingChun teachers. 

To date no other style can remotely be compared with ours. We, the International Academy of WingChun, are the only ones that practice an extremely hard, strengthening and at the same time flexible style of WingChun. It is our wish to teach our WingChun students the ability to defend themselves. This is why the basic level programmes (1st – 4th student level) contain some of the most important techniques of the entire system. Of course old, traditional values should not be lost. The responsibility lies with every Grand Master to create a style which, as originally intended, is suitable for an emergency. Fantasies have no place in a martial art like WingChun. It is necessary to understand what a style was created for, so that it may grow and progress healthily.

At present it must be quite distressing for a professional teacher who has, for the last 20 years, had to bear the derailed world of “Wing Chun”. The direction of most styles has never left the dream world and since the 80s they have been bombarding us with unchanged poetic slogans like “Self-defence without power”, “Learn to fight without fighting” or even “Use your opponent's strength" and other mindless statements. I still remember very clearly that it was advertised that one could defend oneself “passively” (just try to imagine that). Even now, in the 21st Century, those slogans from the 80s still grow in an esoteric world in which slogans can make things look a lot better than they are. So it comes as no surprise that some self-defence styles have been established that have forgotten how an ordinary attack works and instead one spends time on how to touch and bend the other’s arms. In those clubs these flexible distortions are quite aptly called “sensitivity training” and they are occasionally demonstrated, to emphasise entire mental stultification regarding self-defence, with blindfolded eyes. Even a child understands that you cannot defend yourself if you are unable to see anything. Self-defence is already difficult enough with both eyes wide open. What kind of idiot would put his trust in his tactile sense as an attack escalates? Some styles foolishly call this sensitivity training ‘Chi Sao’, whereby the original Chi Sao had nothing to do with a feeling, but initially focussed on the assimilation of collisions (hits/real attacks). 

The focus in Chi Sao is on reducing the reaction speed with the indispensible training of seeing or fast recognition. The Chi Sao of WingChun, an exercise to toughen bones and strengthen muscles and ligaments and therefore the entire body was, in many styles, degraded to a form of sensitivity training in which mostly adults meet each other to touch and bend arms. No more is involved, and this can be verified on the Internet at any time. Sadly, a little bit of shoving and patting is then supposed to indicate a dangerous counterattack. Check out “Chi Sao” on the Internet and have a look at the result of these mistakes. Have a friend or your parents interpret what they see there. This could get very interesting, as a participant may not be able to consider the whole thing objectively and only sees what he or she wants to see. The observer does not need to have any knowledge of martial arts. Most of those portrayed in these little video clips do not have a clue either. That this has absolutely nothing to do with self-defence is clear, even for an amateur without any basic information. The Internet is full of these funny video clips by sense experts. My favourites include one of an old man in a black bathrobe showing a very strange cuddle-defence or four students standing in a circle senselessly groping at each other. One can barely believe one’s eyes. Take a look. The bad thing is that the uninformed in search of self-defence training give credibility to someone calling themselves an expert. And you cannot blame anyone for this error.

I would love to have shown you some of the best examples of this mass suggestion. But you should find your own personal favourites. You will find indescribable “Wing Chun” where you first touch and then paw at each other, but this is as far away from self-defence as a hawk from the moon. I have no idea what the followers of this abnormal art once looked for. Was it really self-defence? 

Try to recognise which movement is supposed to simulate the attack. In most cases you will see two people. One pretends to be the attacker, but does not really attack. The other attacks the ‘non-attacking’ attacker with a sort of speed-petting. As if there are no principles in a fight. It’s so funny that you should definitely take a look. The main points (facts) of self-defence, like collision, stability and powerful movements don’t seem to interest anyone anymore. On the contrary, everyone seems to be delighted although nobody seems to know what for. You need to have seen this. Not a single strong attack, adventurous self-defence games, fidgety movements and even though it’s complete nonsense there are content and applauding students in the background. 

This might be unthinkable, but this mass suggestion resulted in these followers believing they could feel an attack. This insult to human intellect is currently making its rounds through many systems. In the 90s when this dreamy touch art reached its peak it was copied, but seldom questioned.

Of course it is a challenge to practice realistic self-defence without hurting the partner and to have fun while doing some serious training. Brutality on the other hand has no place in WingChun. After all, it’s all about the precise combination of technique, power and speed. However, dealing with a collision, namely the first contact, remains the most important aspect of self-defence. The counter attack can only begin when the defender is able to cope with the powerful impact of attack and defence. The ability to resist a strong attack is indispensable to build up self-confidence. This is why practicing a stable defence is the most important experience in the initial training days. Never lose sight of the essence. Without using eyes self-defence is not possible. Lastly it is necessary to commit earnestly to maintaining the realism of the art of fighting.

The 8 WingChun principles are there as your tutor on your path through the art of self-defence. They will quickly help you to recognise what is right and wrong. 

 

Sifu Klaus Brand

August 2009

WingChun - Self-Defence has a Name

The development of WingChun marked the creation of a unique self-defence art. Since 2003 we have offered this highly-developed system through the International Academy of WingChun. Self-defence is our primary concern. The origin of the WingChun was the result of extensive and complex research and began with my experience of one of the more inventive styles of Wing-Chun. Incidentally, when I write Wing-Chun, I mean those styles which have developed away from the original 17th century combat art. To this day there are indeed several styles which have developed and have affiliated themselves to the same root-words (Wing-Chun), with various spellings, but the similar-sounding name is actually the only connection between these martial arts. Choosing a different name actually denotes an autonomous and distinctive style. The grandmaster of each style is responsible for its character and development. In a book I will deal with the historical developments in much detail. Here I would like to offer an edited version, in order to bring a little clarity into the world of Wing-Chun

After the fall of the Ming dynasty (1644) resistance fighters developed a new style with the ultimate purpose of winning back the beloved cultural and economic glory days of China. The time of the Ming is considered the Renaissance of China. The existing kung fu styles could not meet the demanding requirements of the resistance movement because they contained only partially combative aspects. Something new and functional had to develop. Therefore I regard the style, WingChun, not as a style of kung fu, because the primary idea is applicability which is not the main concern with kung fuThe name Wing-Chun meant at the time “eternal springtime” and referred to the period of cultural flourishing in China, which they tried to conquer back in vain. 

At the beginning of the 80's a widespread interest in Wing-Chun developed in Germany. Suitably for that decade came an abstruse development of this style. Many of us were pulled for various reasons to this “new” martial art. You must know that in the 80’s many Asian martial arts films conquered the world of the cinema, which contributed to an extremely naive view of the Chinese combat arts. Film and reality merged into a fanciful perception. Many of us dreamed about the ultimate style with which one learns to fight without effort, just like the actors in the films, with yielding and soft movements. 

And this cliché was pursued until the bitter end. An incompletely taught and, in my judgment, degenerate Wing-Chun was subjected to a destructive renovation. After they had changed the name (to just two consonants), a rather vague history of a combat nun (in China?) was invented. They called her simply Ng Mui, which translated means “five roots” and actually refers to the development of the style, i.e. the five masters who created it. For the purposes of advertising, even more interesting histories continued to develop around the whole subject. One absurd fairytale was that the style was developed by a woman. They gave her, quite simply, the name of the style, with the addition of the Chinese character “Yim” (for “word”) which served as a reference to the verbal way in which Wing-Chun was taught, person to person, with nothing written down. At the time nobody knew any better and therefore they could completely and freely create things. From this starting point they began to refer to it as a soft style. So the basis for a quite inventive concept was created. Now it rapidly progressed. As crazy as it sounds, they taught passivity in movement. Drawing back to prepare a strike and long, dynamic movements as well as the use of muscular force were smirked at and scorned. They invented a wedge principle contrary to any physical logic and thought that with this principle they could use their arms to displace attacks from the outside. The only straight line that they thought existed was in front of one's own body and only on this line were they allowed to move. Anything else simply could not be. They even believed that the force of the opponent could be used. A kind of martial arts version of the geocentric model (of the Middle Ages) of the world was created. In the end they produced a martial art with childish principles. The idea of waiting until physical contact before reacting with a tactile response was the crowning nonsense. The king of senses, vision, to a large extent they did without. This led to fundamentally late reactions, but nobody cared about all this at the time. Then even books with pseudoscientific explanations came on the market, in which they almost turned the art of self-defence on its head. 

Yes, you read correctly. Exactly the opposite of that which functions in defense was taught and in addition a suitable history was invented. Naturally we suspected we could not defend ourselves with these principles but the dream was too beautiful. By the time we admitted this to ourselves years had passed. This dream version of a martial art continued up to the mid-90’s. Then a few of us gradually returned to reason. The way back was certainly not easy. After some years of the experiments and dreams, we needed even more years to finally give them up. Astonishingly, this self-governing style still exists to this very day. Meanwhile there are numerous derivatives, with their only act of creativity being a new name. In the end they offered the same fantasy with the same fairy tale of the woman and the nun. To this very day many thousands still try to defend themselves with softness, passivity, and relaxation. The statement, “you have become softer”, which would lead a genuine fighter into depression, in these circles is regarded as praise. 

Today I can look back with a smile because I witnessed it myself, and therefore I know what I am talking about. Many times I have asked myself how I put up with it at that time, but on the other hand it's probable that today's WingChun could only have resulted from this journey. I have re-discovered the reality through the absurd; this reality which had to play the leading role with the emergence of the art, because there was only one goal at that time – effectiveness. So, I set myself this task and through painstaking and considerable work created a completely new system, making use of my detailed research and a 40-year experience in martial arts. I took WingChun on a journey through time to arrive once again in the 21st century and above all in reality. 

Thus WingChun developed. The training of technical coordination is an important component of my system. Strengthening the musculature, the ligaments and even the bones are an indispensable result of the training concept. Powerful and strong defense and attack movements distinguish WingChun. To be successful in a self-defence situation one needs first and foremost a sophisticated technical ability put into action by functional force. In self-defence it is the same whether you are a woman or a man, large or small, heavy or light. There are neither differences nor pros and cons. Everyone learns and trains the same educational programs and achieves the same goal in the end. 

I hope with my remarks I can bring some light into the world of the self-defence arts. As the leader of the International Academy Of WingChun, this clearing-up is my obligation, particularly regarding Wing-Chun. Again and again I receive e-mails with many questions concerning the styles of Wing-Chun. Unfortunately, marketing ploys are very often accepted as fact. Therefore my personal hint: Go and look at as much as you can, take time before you decide and above all – ask questions. Only you can decide which martial art and which teacher you place your confidence in. 

If you are interested in the self-defence system WingChun, you can directly contact the Group and Academy Leaders (found in the Listings - Academies and Groups) in your area. Our WingChun instructor looks forward to meeting you and will take time to plan your goals with you. Whether you would like to learn or teach self-defense and regardless of whether or not you possess previous knowledge from other styles, you are welcome at any time. 

WingChun – Learn to Defend Yourself. 

 

Sifu Klaus Brand

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