Havant Wing Chun

Havant Wing Chun is a friendly and welcoming Kung Fu club based in Havant, Hants, UK.

We specialise in making Wing Chun Kung Fu work in real situations.

WING CHUN – MY JOURNEY SO FAR
By Sifu Jim Woodcock

SIFU ALAN GIBSON
My martial journey, like many others, started with Taekwondo, but about 3 years into my training I became interested in the current trend of making martial arts work “on the street, ” spearheaded by Geoff Thompson and many others.

So I had a look around to see what other martial arts were available locally and came across Sifu Alan Gibson's Wing Chun Federation. I immediately went for my first private lesson with Alan and we hit it off straight away. I continued to receive private training for about 6 months and then joined Alan's class in Southampton. I totally fell in love with Ving Tsun.

I still receive tuition from Sifu Alan Gibsonand we have regular “Coaches Training” sessions with all the clubs from the Wing Chun Federation.

LEE MORRISON
My development in reality based martial arts continued when I found out that Urban Combatives Founder Lee Morrison was teaching a 4 hour workshop once a month in Southampton. I went along and found everyone there, especially Lee, to be absolutely amazing and it was a baptism of fire. To further my self protection knowledge I attended the workshops every month for about a year and also attended two seminars hosted by Lee. I also attended many other seminars with world class coaches.

At HVT we understand how to protect yourself in violent situation. Key to this understanding is awareness. Awareness of your environment, the people around you, and the threat cues that may signal that a situation may be about to start, but most importantly AWARENESS OF YOURSELF. You need to have good conflict management skills, which can possibly prevent the physical confrontation from starting in the first place.

Ving Tsun, even in it's purest form will provide you with many attributes which will help in a “real” situation, such as spacial awareness, correct range, non-telegraphic close range striking and many others.

SIFU CLIFF AU YEUNG
In 2011 Mark Page and Alan Gibson organised the first UK visit of Hong Kong Sifu Cliff Au Yeung, luckily the Wing Chun Federation coaches also had the opportunity of spending time with Cliff during some closed door training. Simply put, I was blown away by Sifu Cliffs skill and knowledge of the Wong Shun Leung Ving Tsun Training Method. It was like having massive pieces of my own Ving Tsun jigsaw filled in. He also introduced us to the internal skills of Ving Tsun, which have transformed the way I teach and train myself and my students.

2015 WORKSHOP
In November 2015 I had the honour of organised my first Wong Shun Leung Ving Tsun Workshop with Sifu Cliff Au Yeung accompanied by Sifu Asiatic from UFA Ving Tsun in Canada, the workshop was a complete success. During that time I was fortunate enough to receive private tuition from my Sibak Gung Cliff and continue this private tuition each time Sibak Gung is in the UK.

2016 WORKSHOP
In 2016 it was time for my Sifu Cliff and Sifu Asiatic to return to the UK! So I organised my second WSLVT Workshop. Again it was a massive success with everyone training hard and learning so much. I also received hours of private tuition from my Sibak Gung Cliff with him checking my forms and understanding of his system. I now consider him a close friend and I am honoured to pass on what he has taught me.

So I continue to be a perpetual student of my beloved Ving Tsun and whatever I learn I will always pass down to my students.

2017 WORKSHOP
We hope to have Sifu Cliff and Sifu Asiatic over to the UK again in 2017, so keep checking the events page for updates.