September 26-28 - Sifu Meng's Rochester HFY Workshop

[Kalish]

This past weekend, Sifu Meng, John Lambert, Sifu Wayne Shultz, and Sifu Brad Ryan came to Rochester NY for a Hung Fa Yi workshop and training with the Rochester club members.

Everyone arrived at the palacial Kalish estate at various times on Friday night. Wayne now knows the surrounding suburbs of the west side better than I do. We spent the remainder of the evening catching up and discussing various kung fu topics.

Saturday started at 9am with the first Rochester Public HFY workshop given by Sifu Meng at the Rochester Engineering Society building. From 9am to 4pm Sifu went through a very thorough, cohesive presentation that leveraged off of the first 6 levels of the VTM's latest curriculum. Overriding themes included reality in martial arts as highlighted by a progression from saan kiu drills (across all ranges of combat) through wing kiu focused training. The remainder of Saturday included a dinner out with kung fu family, spouses, and children, followed by late night kung fu discussions.

Sunday started at 9am as well with a review of the chum kiu form and its applications with the more senior students followed by additional training of the various HFY SNT progressions with the entire group. So much time was spent on wing chun that the travellers had to take their lunch/dinner on the road.

I really want to thank Sifu and everyone else who helped him make the weekend's events great ones. I would also encourage the attendees to post their thoughts on the workshop as well.

Andy Kalish
VTM Rochester Branch Club

[BennyMeng]

Coming back from such a good workshop, I wanted to offer my thanks as well!

First, thank you to Andy for such being a wonderful host, putting us all up at his home (and thanks to his wife, even more!)

A special thanks goes to Joe for getting us the location, stocked with refreshments

And of course, it was great to see the Rochester group, a dedicated group to be sure.

I was also pleased to see the members from out-of-town in attendance as well: Sifu Wayne Schulz, Sifu Brad Ryan, and John Lambert. Driving up in John’s luxury car was nice – we hit 80-85 mph and didn’t even feel it once.

and I think we might have generated a new member after the workshop, an experienced martial artist with a lot of experience and an open mind, named Dan M.

BM

PS - soon you will see our secret techniques, trained in the Far-East-Coast, hidden by Andy's house as we trained in the back yard.

[Douglas Rivers]

I would like to thank Sifu for coming to Rochester and giving the workshop. It takes an enormous amount of effort to travel and give these workshops.

[JohnL]

Thanks to Meng Sifu for a great Seminar!

I always have a quantum leap in my training when I attend the seminars. The training in the phases and ranges of combat always raise the level of my Kung Fu experience.

I am amazed by the amount of knowledge that I have been exposed to during the past three years. It makes me even more aware of the resposibility of studying and training harder and smarter.

Thanks again Sifu,

JohnL

[passing_through]

Below are the comments from the workshop participants.

Jeremy R.
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One of the main concepts that I got out of the seminar was again, understanding Saam Mo Kiu - meaning that I need a basic understanding of Long Range, Striking Range, Trapping and Grappling. So many times Wing Chun practitioners get caught up in just thinking that all they need to know is trapping range. I'm starting to understand, not only from an experience point of view, but as well from a tactical point of view. There is a proper place and time for all the ranges.

Brad Ryan
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The workshop was excellent. The Heaven, Man, Earth concept really gives a clear understanding of the human physical perspective. It's circle and triangle concept also gave a clearer concept of strategies. The progression supports the idea of human reality in action. This was a good workshop.

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I especially enjoyed the 3-Gate Heaven, Man, Earth concepts and applications. It brings our training to a new reality. Sifu was good as always in showing us how to evaluate system effective use of time and space.

Jeff Perkins
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As someone who started on the "outside", I think that the progressions and time/space/energy make a lot of sense. I came from a background where many fighters right one-dimensionally and it is definitely a different way of thinking. I think this conference was well-presented and it is a great beginning for me. I hope I can continue to learn, use and follow this system. Thank you for allowing me to attend. I've got a lot to think about.

Dan
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Very good learning experience. I learned some valuable new lessons and also tied together a lot of things that were swimming around in my mind. The seminar reinforced my feeling of being very lucky to be a student learning Hung Fa Yi and studying under you

[Kalish]

Originally posted by JohnL
Thanks to Meng Sifu for a great Seminar!

I always have a quantum leap in my training when I attend the seminars. The training in the phases and ranges of combat always raise the level of my Kung Fu experience.

I am amazed by the amount of knowledge that I have been exposed to during the past three years. It makes me even more aware of the resposibility of studying and training harder and smarter.

Thanks again Sifu,

JohnL

John,

Thanks again for coming. It is always great to see you. Just wanted to add that after our garage training on Sunday, you now owe me one "lip reality lesson". You can pay me back in Dayton...

ajk