International Academy of WingChun - US

01/28/2019

While passing the lineage to next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation, each of us here is the bridge. We train together, meet as strangers and become a family.

Happy New Year of 2019! How’s new year treating you? Do you know what? As entering 2019, the Academy of WingChun Berkeley at the University Avenue location is engaging into 10th year anniversary. Many things changed since then, many people comes and goes, as life happens as expected, and often une...

10/14/2018

In WingChun, how can I punch harder?

07/29/2018

If the mastering the technique itself is immature, whatever the muscle is greatly trained, it becomes an unused treasure. On the contrary, if you acquire the skills of maneuvering your body freely, you can generate more power and speed efficiently.

If the life extracts one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving. It takes a lot of courage to liberate yourself from the familiar and seemingly secure environment, to embrace the unknown. On the other hand, there is truly more security in the adventurous and exciting mindsets and actions....

06/12/2018

Observation and intention are intimately related. Like Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that we cannot observe something without changing what we are observing.

Everything happens in the universe begins with intention. The classic quote known as the Upanishads dictates, “You are what your deepest desire is. As your desire is, so is your intention. As your …

05/07/2018

WingChun Seminar on May 6, 2018, Berkeley, CA, by Sihing Tom Richards

05/05/2018

May the force be with you! Remember Issac Newton’s First Law of Motions, “a body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion unless it is acted upon by an ex…

04/22/2018

03/18/2018

This March, we are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of International Academy of WingChun US -HQ/Berkeley under the new leadership with Sihing Tom Richards & Sije Yuka Yoshioka.

Also, the year 2018 is the 20th years anniversary of Sihing Tom Richards and Sihing Carl Hettiger with International Academy of WingChun (IAW). We would like to express a huge gratitude to those two very special WingChun instructors, who have been providing us consistent and tireless efforts, up to this date, to make WingChun available and accessible to us here in the US, especially in the Bay Area.

As of date, many IAW instructors already gave up on teaching the classes in regular bases when they encountered the set-backs, found another interests or priorities. However, Sihing Tom & Carl have been always present, honest, fierce, carrying strong passion to get better themselves, and being the catalyst for us to evolve in training and daily life along with WingChun.

In near future, we will be hosting more monthly events, and special events with our official IAW academy leaders, Sihing Tom Richards of IAW Berkeley and Sihing Carl Hettiger of IAW Santa Cruz. Please stay tuned!

Sije Yuka Yoshioka (IAW-US-HQ)

02/25/2018

IAW 2018 Membership Stickers are here from the IAW-HQ Germany and on their way to you. Please place it on the backside of your IAW passport once you receive it.

If you haven’t, you can renew it online at http://wingchunus.com/annual/.

Happy Training!

02/12/2018

WingChun Seminar Impressions on Feb 11, 2018 by Sihing Tom Richards at IAW-US-HQ Berkeley

12/28/2017

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there” -unknown. Most people try to avoid stress, because it is uncomfortable. Chronical stress is bad for you, but short bursts of str…