Participants: Sifu Meng, Mike Mathews, Jeremy Roadruck, Joe
Seidenschmidt
Sifu Garrett Gee discussing Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun
Wednesday
After arriving at 6:30 at night and getting to the hotel, Sifu Gee,
three of his students, Benny Meng, Allan Kong, and Jeffrey Chin along
with two grand students, Jeremy Roadruck and Joe Seidenschmidt had a
lengthy discussion ranging from HFY technical development through
current activities in the Wing Chun community. Specific topics
included the kyuhn chyun kyuhn exercise, 3 dimensional daan chi sau,
jyu ga tong long, luhk dim bun gwan history, the HFY curriculum and
organization. After 5 hours of discussion and training, the group took
a break and went for dinner. During dinner, Sifu Gee and Sifu Meng
continued their discussion on daan chi sau. After dinner, the group
returned to the hotel and trained daan chi sau, footwork and stances
until 3:30 Thursday morning.
San Francisco Wing Chun enthusiasts
Thursday
Thursday morning, at the hotel the VTM group reviewed kyuhn chyun
kyuhn, daan chi sau, the footwork and stances covered the previous
night. Moving the discussion to a restaurant for dim sum, the
conversation continued on daan chi sau. After meeting over dim sum,
the VTM group traveled to the Marina with Sifu Gee and his student to
continue discussing HFY and train for a couple of hours covering daan
chi sau, paak sau, and geuk jong training. After an hour break to get
a snack, the training and discussion resumed in a China Town park for
a couple more hours covering paak sau progression, stances and
footwork, development of taan sau in daan chi sau and application of
geuk jong. At 7:00 the VTM group met with Sifu Gee’s students
for a formal class lasting 4 hours. Topics discussed included the
twelve levels of HFY, the first level’s material, paak sau
progression, daan chi sau, stances and kyuhn jong with plenty of time
for training. Following the class time, several members went out for a
snack. After the snack, the VTM group returned to the hotel to review
the information presented during the day.
Hung Fa Yi discussion with Samuel Kwok's Wing Chun Federation
Friday
Friday began with a quick visit to Japan Town for the VTM group. After
social time and lunch with Sifu Gee, the VTM group returned to the
park to continue discussing and training HFY for 3 hours covering the
baai jong and jong sau along with stances, footwork and paak sau
progression. While waiting for additional members of the HFY group to
gather in Chinatown, members of the VTM group took the opportunity to
do some shopping in China Town for a half hour. After dinner, the HFY
group met for a three-hour organizational meeting.
