Will To Power

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Member Since: 1/27/2006
Band Website: willtopower.net
Band Members: Bob Rosenberg
Various Female Vocalists

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WILL TO POWER

Bob at Show in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Gioia Bruno, Siddy Betancourt and WTP Dancers singing Dreamin'

Bob and Savanna

After About 7 Years Punches Are More Rooted With Less "Force" but Much More Power. Both Feet Would Be Firmly Rooted to The Ground with More of a Slide Step (Like Fencing) Rather Than Just Running into Opponent. This Guy Looks More Like a JKD FIghter. Very Little Upper Body Strength is Used in Advanced Wing Chun. "Fa Jin" is Much More Evident.

In Advanced Wing Chun "Something" Takes over and The Fighter has No Idea of What Happened. This is Given Many Names but is Just Highly Perceptive Intuition and Fine Tuned Awareness and Kinistetics. This is The Reason for Chi Sao Training. To Totally Develop Intuition, Awareness and Feel. There is No Thinking in Chi Sao (Mushin). The Reason Why Advance Chi Sau is Done Blindfolded is to Totally Get You out of "Planning" and the Slowness of "Hand to Eye" Fighting. CHI SAO IS NOT FIGHTING! It is to Change Perception from Intellect to Intuition.

Unless You Have Been Consistantly Training Wing Chun for at Least 5-7 Years This Will Be Meaningless to You. I advise Training an Internal Art Like Hsing Yi or Taijiquan to Develop "Jin" and More Easily Understand the Power Concept in Wing Chun (Or any Martial Art for That Matter).

Even UFC Champion Chuck Lidell Trained in Kempo for 10 Years Which Makes him One of the Most Powerful Strikers in the UFC. Although Kempo is Not Considered "Internal", After 10 Years Most Martial Artists Become More Internal and and use Less Muscle Force (Li)

Leung Ting's "Wing Tsun"

Leung Ting Changed the wording to "Wing Tsun" to distinguish it from many Wing Chun Instructors. My Sifu taught Wing Chun among many other Traditional Chinese Martial Arts. He did not advance students quickly (2-3 years in many Wing Chun schools) because while there are few froms in Wing Chun it takes many years to MASTER the basics.

Leung Ting describes very basic concepts of not using "strength" because biceps and triceps will work against each other like applying brakes in a car. At a more advanced level you are using very little muscle force (Li). Your hands "shoot" out like bullets with power coming from Ground to Hips to Waist, elbow and hands. This becomes almost pure internal Wing Chun. The power comparison is like Pushing an arrow into a target with you arm, as opposed to shooting it from a bow.

I never trained in Leung Ting's organization but did train a little in Emin Boztepe's (Leung Ting's most famous student). The instructor came to my house and we did mostly Chi Sao. He was not that fluid and you could feel him stiffen with upper body strength. I went to 1 seminar with Emin Boztepe. I much prefer my Sifu Andrew Chung especially for the internal power (Jin).

There is actually very little I use from Wing Chun as far as techniques. Less is More for me. The Chi Sao training helped me a lot but for my weight and size I am very aggressive and have never stepped back or used any "defensive" moves or blocks. I also learned some basic ground fighting because many fighters train in BJJ now. That is what I trained in privately in Fort Lauderdale before I went to Arizona. I have no plans to compete so I basically wanted the basics and Spawl Training.

For "Self Defense" I recommend CCW Permit and a good quality handgun either revolver or semi-auto. My favorites are the Sig Sauer P229, HK USP Compact .40 and S&W 386PD, a K frame, Scandium/Titanium .357 Magnum with light-gathering sights that fires seven rounds and weighs 18 ounces. I don't recommend using .357 rounds, .38 or 39+P are more than enough. If it is not life threatening I recommend "OC" Spray unless the wind is against you. Unarmed defense will get you in more trouble legally than a Defensive Weapon. Unless you compete, you should not fight for ego's sake.

Emin Boztepe Demonstrating Chi Sao

My Martial Arts Sifu, Andrew Chung

While travelling, I have seen Chinese Martial Arts practitioners from all over the world but never have I witnessed anything comparable to Sifu's short Jin which he exhibits in all of his styles. This short Jin has been popularized by Bruce Lees' "One Inch Punch". Andy has not competed since the late 70s during which he was also a successful Full Contact fighter

From Sifu Chung I learned the entire system of Wing Chun Gung Fu, Southern Praying Mantis (Jook Lum), Yang Family Taijiquan, some Xingyi and Bagua. I also learned forms from Hung Ga (Iron Wire) and Bak Mei (Known as "White Eyebrow" in English). Mainly what I learned is the use of Jin (internal power) as opposed to Li (muscular power) which transfers to all arts but especially Southern Shaolin and Wudang arts.

Jin can only manifest through "Soong" which is a state of relaxing/let go, not easily described in English terms. Jin has NOTHING to do with the False, stage magic, "Chi Power" demonstrations made by so many martial arts frauds. It also has nothing to do with so called "mind power". In fact, it occurs simultaneously with Mushin (no-mind). Any sort of "mind power" is an attempt for the ego to "control"... totally the opposite of the "let go" also known as Wu Wei in Taoism needed to gradually experience Soong.

Sifu is a Buddhist and a Taoist and rarely even does public demonstarations. He has always been very selective in who he would consider a student. Any bully, show-off or egoist would not be accepted or would be quickly booted out. Most of the time his enrollment never went above 10 members. He has never graced the covers of the slick MA magazines but he is very well respected within the true Chinese Martial Arts Community.

There are only a few individuals in my life that I consider "mentors" and most are long gone. Andrew Chung however, has been my "living mentor". I respectfully bow to you Sifu. Thank you for leading me on The Path which I have followed since 1986. Twenty One years on this Path and yet I am still a Beginner. Like any path, it is not linear, it has it's twists and turns, peaks and valleys, ups and downs...But you don't tread this Path through human effort. This Path is a stream and you allow this stream to carry you wherever it may. No reisistance against the current. This stream (like all streams) leads to One Place and that is the Ocean, where all streams and rivers become One again. The Ocean is Tao. The Path is the Path of Returning to Self.