Wing Chun Do

Ogi’s Portland Seminar

2008-05-05T17:41:41-05:00

I will be teaching a seminar in Portland on the weekend of August 1-3, 2008. The seminar will be held at Portland Jujitsu Club on 4030 NE Broadway. Email me at ronogipro at yahoo dot com for more information.

Ron Ogi

Grants Pass International WCD Training Center

2008-05-05T17:38:35-05:00

Congratulations on the opening of the Grants Pass International WCD Training Center. Tomorrow, 5/6 will be the first class taught at the gym. The club is still being built and is not completely finish yet. According to Sijo, the club is going to be bigger than the shoreline club by 1000 square feet. Anthony Morgan will be the chief instructor with Sijo over seeing the running of the club. I look forward in seeing the club in August when I go and visit Sijo in Oregon.

Ron Ogi

Prayer or Positive Energy For Sijo

2008-04-28T14:23:28-05:00

Aloha All,

Sijo is going in for surgery this Wednesday, 4/30 working on his lower spine. Please pray or send positive healing energy to help with the process he will be going through. Thank you for your Kokua (help)!

Ron Ogi

Sijo how did your England trip go?

2008-04-16T04:53:33-05:00

Hello Sijo
How did your semanar in London go?
Sefi said you were going to do a semanar for him. and I just heard from Sibok Rocco, that you were back.

Do you have any new storys to shair with us?

C.A.G.

New kung fu movies

2008-04-21T00:14:46-05:00

Has anyone seen the new movie the Forbidden Kingdom? What did you think of it?

The term Gung Fu or Kung Fu is going to be high profile in the next few movies coming out. First in Forbidden Kingdom, I like it that Jackie Chan says, “He’s got no gung fu.” They are remaking several Bruce Lee films, the Kung Fu series, and an animated movie called Kung Fu Panda. Will Smith’s son will be in the remake of the Karate Kid. Plus a film based on the life of wing chun grandmaster, Yip Man.

Talk up your gung fu roots!

Liz A

Introduce yourself

2008-02-23T20:01:26-05:00

Thanks for browsing/joining the Wing Chun Do Forums.

Please introduce yourself.

Tell us where you train WCD, for how long, what topics you are interested in.

Thanks!

Aloha From Hawaii

2008-02-19T03:12:39-05:00

Just want to get this forum started and I will start by introducing myself. My name is Ron Ogi and I am a student of Sijo James DeMile since 1974. I have gone through the evolution of Wing Chun Do since its inception in Hawaii. I still train diligently and keep an open mind in understanding the self-defense aspects of the martial arts. If there are any questions regarding my experience for the last 34 years please feel free to ask. Take care and much Mahalo!

Ron Ogi

Bruce Lee clip form Ironsides 1967

2008-04-05T04:59:52-05:00

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PaTOlO8kG-w

I have never seen this clip before.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

C.A.G.

Gung Fu Philosophy

2008-03-23T18:10:25-05:00

Hello Everyone.
This is not WCD, but Pholosophy that I think fits into the proper mind set of WCD.
Its fun reading.

I hope you all enjoy it? (there is more if...)

Have a good day.and a happy Easter.
C.A.G.

We are all getting older, some day you can no longer rely on your muscular strength. The speed and power approach is limited. You can only take that approach so far. I have yet to see a limit in the soft approach.

“Through this method you win by parrying the line of the enemy’s attack. You must study this.”

It will take 1/2 of a year to change from your old habits to new habits. Changing habits starts with having the proper concept in your mind.

How Long ?
One day a student came to learn martial arts from a famous master. The student was anxious to learn the art that the master taught. After practicing very hard for many months, the student said, “Master, how long will it take me to get good? The master replied, “Ten years.” The student then said, “What if I practice even harder than that? The master replied, “30 years.” The master went on to explain, “If you have one eye on your destination, then you have only one eye with which to find the way.”
The moral is: You can learn no faster than to totally concentrate on what is being taught to you at the moment. Don’t worry about what comes next. When you learn what was taught, then the next thing will come.

The Tea Cup
One day, a professor came to visit a Zen master to inquire about Zen. It was obvious to the Zen master from the start of the conversation that the professor was more interested in expressing his own opinions than to learn anything about Zen. After listening quietly, the master offered the professor some tea. The Master poured until the cup overflowed. The shocked professor said, “Stop, my cup can hold no more!” The master then went on to explain, “Like this cup, your mind is full, leaving you no room to accept anything new. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

Try to relax, slow down, be soft. Find out what is going on.
Position comes first by training the form accurately. Without proper position your hitting accuracy will be off and your power transfer will be reduced. Without proper position, you cannot neutralize force. Without proper position, you will be off balanced. Proper position comes from performing the first set accurately in front of a mirror. Sensitivity to force comes next. This comes over a long period of time from slow sticking hands practice. Timing comes next. Power comes last. Speed comes before power.

It is important to connect the hands with the feet. Many people get shoved back instead of being able to neutralize the force by absorbing it or by turning the stance. Stance training, such as stepping and turning is very important.

Most students are too tense. You have to constantly remind yourself to relax. The tense way cannot work. You will get tired and it will fail against strength.

If you rely on strength, when you hit the enemy’s sword you will inevitably hit too hard. If you do this, your own sword will be carried along as a result. Thus the saying, “The strongest hand wins”, has no meaning.

Don’t act before you know what is going on. You must feel what is happening first. People act before they feel. Random flurries won’t work. You can’t just rely on speed.

Speed is nor part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

Try to use the concept of neutralizing force along the tangent of a circle. The circle can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

Don’t push the force away. When nearly all students apply the Pak sau, the Bong sau, the Fook sau, they are pushing the force away. They are scared of the force, they want to get rid of that force. Instead you should accept that force, welcome that force. The principle in Gung Fu is “Receive what comes.” Receive means to really accept it, don’t push it away.

Many people have no rooting. The stance is weak, not sunken. The knees should be in. You should feel like you are melting into the ground. You can practice for a lifetime but if your stance is poor you will have wasted all of your effort. If you meet the right Wing Chun guy, you will be in big trouble.

Sometimes, however, you may encounter the enemy on marshland, swampy ground, river valleys, stony ground, or narrow roads, in which situations you cannot jump or move the feet quickly. In my strategy, the footwork does not change… You must never lose control of your feet.
If the attack is not committed, then don’t react. With a committed punch or kick, you can react and win because the opponent cannot recover. The centerline path will get you there before him.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy’s useful actions but allow his useless actions. However, doing this alone is defensive. First, you must act according to the Way, suppress the enemy’s techniques, foiling his plans, and thence command him directly. When you can do this you will be a master of strategy.

Nim’s Island

2008-03-17T04:08:55-05:00

This past weekend I worked on the press junket for the movie Nim’s Island which will debut on April 4th. A press junket is where the movie studio brings the stars to one place along with the entertainment reporters from around the world to do interviews. Each star is placed in a room or in our case a tent outside next to the beach in Koolina. Each reporter has 5 minutes to do the interview and they rotate around the tents to cover each star. We had three tents with Jodie Foster in one, Abigail Breslin in another and Gerard Butler in the last one. I was shooting in the tent with Abigail Breslin who plays the role of Nim in the movie. For those of you who saw the movie Signs starring Mel Gibson, Abigail was the daughter of Mel always asking for a cup of water. I was listening to the reporters asking their questions to Abigail and was saying that she played the role of an action star and was really fantastic in the movie. Out of curiousity I went to the web site and saw the trailer of the movie and was blown away with the things she was doing in the movie. I look forward in watching the movie when it comes out next month. She might be the next action star on the rise. Abigail was really nice and very intelligent in her answers to the interviewer’s questions. For those of you with kids, this would be a good movie to watch on the big screen. She does a lot of work with animals and the scenes shot with them are just incredible. This was a fun job and I really lucked out in getting Abigail’s tent.

Ron Ogi