“ACCIDENTALLY ELITIST TRAINING”

consider popping in to touch hands…..  and touch minds.

Usually, this Blog is inwards facing as a means for the group to stay connected, but this post, this stream of consciousness, is being sent out into the Cyber Wilderness in the hope of connecting with a fellow traveller.

Q. Why do new students not stay very long?

Our training group has evolved to be composed of only Senior People, all of whom have been training Wing Chun exclusively for a long time, at least 15 years, and myself over 30 years, it is not any kind of arrogance when I say we know all there is to know.

For one thing, it is not arrogance because knowing can be a long way away from understanding, and we know this also.

Another is that the total of Wing Chun knowledge is surprisingly small, so we should know it all, anyone, anywhere, who has trained for half a dozen years should know it all.

At first Wing Chun appears to be wide, deep, and mysterious, so many FORMS, so many movements, so much information, so many pieces to this puzzle.

But then without fanfare, it changes.

This point of change is different for everyone, but it is a real point in time and luckily unavoidable.

For no apparent reason and completely without warning we realise that the 100,000 pieces that are perceived as the Wing Chun pattern is a FRACTAL.

Hence “Knowing it all” is easy, but the understanding can be infinite.

If your training has reached the stage of the Mok Jan Jong the new pattern, the  “FRACTAL” design is close, maybe even visible if you look just a bit closer.

ONCE SEEN, IT CANNOT BE UNSEEN.

To be expected, from this point forward training becomes all about exploring and understanding the FRACTAL design, which can be exciting and engaging once you see it, but this level of understanding is unapproachable if you do not see it, and even just talking about it can appear hopeless, even useless to those that can’t yet see it.

This is why this post is titled “ACCIDENTALLY ELITIST TRAINING”, we do not do this deliberately but our training methods are not very palatable for people who are not at least close to the Dummy level.

We still hit shit, do Chi Sau, work on mobility and stability, use the Pole, swing the Knives, and run through possible violent scenarios and all of the other elements, but not in the way that early or intermediate students think of as REALISTIC training.

Until students recognise then see the FRACTAL design, and reach a level where they can play the Dummy without over-thinking, it sounds like Bullshit when I tell them that this way leads to stopping any incoming strike while delivering effortless counter-attacks that put nasty-folk on their asses.

And I do not blame them, I was there once, and I thought it was Bullshit back then.

The reason I say that the Dummy level is the FRACTAL is because, when we play the Dummy, we play with a combination of all aspects of the earlier FORMS, from here there is nothing new, all has been revealed.

As a small group we are always hoping to get a few new people to come and play with us, but here again the “ACCIDENTALLY ELITIST TRAINING” has us looking for people who can come and add to the collective knowledge, perhaps bring in a new perspective.

FRACTALS repeat themselves into infinity but they do this in every direction to all destinations so more eyes help see more dimensions.

If we can free our thinking up to where we see and work on the FRACTAL IDEA itself and not just on one of its manifestations such as Kung Fu or even more selectively Wing Chun we see it is everywhere, engaging an attacker in a violent situation is governed by the same forces as a car crash.

If this stream of consciousness rings any kind of bell with you, consider joining in the conversation, even better if you are close enough to Western Sydney consider popping in to touch hands…..  and touch minds….. perhaps even bend fenders.