Spent another great weekend with my student and good friend, Stu Dunn, and his New Zealand crew, as always, it was a good time for all as we trained together and had some fun.

Over the past couple of years, Stu has finally found a good core of great students who are putting in some good training and the nucleus of a solid school Is forming slowly on the Kapiti coast. Kudos for all who came out to see me and to share in the training. Even the weather, which was forecast to be cold, rainy and windy, shifted and we had nice sunny and clear days!

Check out our Facebook page to see what happened on the weekend: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.523188481091008.1073741825.126489627427564&type=1 and like us,  if you haven’t already!

One of the main goals of the Academy has been to spread Chinese culture to the Australian public; not only through our Wing Chun kung fu training and classes, but also through other means such as our promotion of dragon dancing.

This month we launched a new dragon dance workshop, aimed at primary-school aged children, to teach them more about the Chinese culture and its many interesting aspects.

St Louis de Montforts Primary School in Aspendale, and Kardinia International College in Geelong were both receptive to our dragon dance workshops and the children at both schools were enthusiastic about learning more about the Chinese dragon, but even more so with our interactive and hands-on approach to teaching them how to do the dragon dance.

If recent emails and phone calls are any indication, I believe that our dragons will soon be out and about, throughout Melbourne-area schools, all through the year now and not just at Chinese New Year!

WELL DONE to ALL of the students (and teachers) who participated and shared in our initial Dragon Dance Workshops!!!

On my recent visit to Europe, I stopped in Athens to see my good friend, Sifu Panagiotis Brebos, and spent some time with him and his students there. I was happy to see that an interview I did some time ago for “Mavri Zoni”, Greece’s martial arts magazine, had finally been published. 

You can read the English translation of that article here:  mavrizoni greece interview 2013

*Please note that either through misunderstanding with the writer, or through translation of my article into English, the following error occurred: Mr Gilbert Lam, my very first Wing Chun instructor is said to have been a student of the late Sifu Wong Shun Leung. My training, however little it was, that came from Sifu Wong Shun Leung, was taught to me by my sihing, Mr James Ng (who introduced all of us to Mr Lam), who left Boston to live in Hong Kong in the late 1960’s and trained with him there for one year, and who returned to Boston to train me and others in our private Wing Chun “club”, what he learned from the late master Wong – there is NO direct claim stated or implied herein, that I have ever received any direct training from Sifu Wong.