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Sung Wing Chun - Sheffield
Welcome to the Sung Wing Chun, a class focused on exploring Wing Chun through the lens of internal martial arts and embodied awareness. Rooted in the teachings and philosophy of both Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin and the Alexander Technique, this class is about cultivating mindful presence, structural integrity, and relaxed responsiveness.
🌿 Philosophy
This is not just martial arts as combat — this is martial arts as self-study.
We approach movement as a dialogue between intention, structure, and awareness.
Wing Chun provides the framework: forms, structure, partner drills.
Alexander Technique provides the lens: how we use ourselves in those forms.
Core Principles We Explore:
🧘♂️ Practice Components
Each class includes:
Our aim is to develop martial presence and personal growth through embodied practice.
Guidelines:
🌿 Philosophy
This is not just martial arts as combat — this is martial arts as self-study.
We approach movement as a dialogue between intention, structure, and awareness.
Wing Chun provides the framework: forms, structure, partner drills.
Alexander Technique provides the lens: how we use ourselves in those forms.
Core Principles We Explore:
- Use affects function — how you move is more important than what you move
- Non-doing — we release unnecessary effort to allow natural coordination
- Primary Coordination — aligning head, neck, and spine as a foundation for ease
- Economy of motion — from Wing Chun’s concept of “shortest path”
- Inhibition & Response — pausing to choose rather than react automatically
- Internal expansion — stability from inside, not from force or bracing
- Relaxed power – Utilising the mass of the body to generate force instead of isolated muscular alignment.
🧘♂️ Practice Components
Each class includes:
- Standing Practice: Cultivate internal awareness and stillness
- Siu Nim Tao (小念頭): Practicing a form as moving meditation — less doing, more sensing
- Chum Kiu form: Coordinated movement from central axis
- Partner Work (Chi Sau): Sensitivity without muscular effort; relational awareness
- Hands-on Guidance: Verbal and gentle tactile cues from Alexander approach
- Internal Drills: Pressure testing structure, mind-body responsiveness
- Energy flow (Yi) – guiding action from internal awareness
Our aim is to develop martial presence and personal growth through embodied practice.
Guidelines:
- Wear comfortable clothes, if possible avoid thick soles.
- Respect the space and your training partners; this is a reflective not competitive environment.
- Come with curiosity, not tension.
- Leave with less effort, not just techniques.
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