Learning Ving Tsun

Matt Johnson Ving Tsun Association Gathering and Training Intensive

ImageCome to Chicago for a chance to pick the brain of Sifu Matt Johnson: a sifu with a deep understanding of Ving Tsun, 25 years of experience, total dedication to the system and who travels year after year, to learn directly from Ip Ching. This is also your chance to hang out and chi sau with your Ving Tsun brothers and sisters from all over the coutry.

Sifu Matt is offering an 8 hour seminar specially designed for this once a year event! All aspects of the system will be covered. This will be a hands-on, intensive training seminar addressing all three empty hand forms, Mook Yan Jong techniques, and Chi Sao. 

The atmosphere will be rather informal with LOTS of hands-on training. There will be several question and answer sessions for you to ask any questions about any part of the system. One of the key elements to Sifu Matt’s teaching is that there are never any secrets held back in the closed fist of the teacher. So, come and bring those questions and notebooks. 

This is an oppourtunity to make a real sea change in your understanding of the system, get lots of hands on training and have a great time with the whole association.

$65 for VTSDA Members (students of the academy who are not yet members of the MJVTA)
$50 for Association Members
$100 for all others. 

Lunch included. Please bring your own refillable water bottles.
Please RSVP as soon as possible so we can plan for food and other details. We want you to have a great time here in Chicago!

Not yet a member of the Matt Johnson Ving Tsun Association? This might be a great time to join! $50/year

For those staying the weekend, we have plans for dinner together and other options for weekend sightseeing. Details TBA.Image

Day Two: Sifu Matt Johnson’s Ving Tsun Training Camp

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Training Before Kung Fu Camp

Lots of great training tonight at the VTSDA. Everyone is really gearing up for the Ving TSun camp this weekend. Haven't signed up yet? There's still time! But not much. Contact us right away to reserve your spot. All levels welcome. Great way to get an in-depth exposure to the art if you are thinking about training with us.

Lots of great training tonight at the VTSDA. Everyone is really gearing up for the Ving TSun camp this weekend. Haven’t signed up yet? There’s still time! But not much. Contact us right away to reserve your spot. All levels welcome. Great way to get an in-depth exposure to the art if you are thinking about training with us.

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We’re Moving!

The Ving Tsun Self Defense Academy is excited to announce an exciting move into the Fountainhead Loft Building at 1932 S Halsted St. Suite 505

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The move will be happening during the first week of April. Wednesday, May 1st, class will still take place in the old school but after that, we expect to be fully settling in by Saturday May 6th. In fact we may be recruiting to get help to make that final move on Saturday during our regular class time. It will be all hands on deck! 

Stay tuned for photos and complete instructions on using the building’s security system to enter the building for classes.

It’s going to be a great year for the academy. We are excited to have all of you as part of the school. We hope you will all feel at home here as you did in our last location. 

New meditation class at the VTSDA

To be a true warrior you must understand the mind and learn to control it. So to teach you this, starting in March (March 16th to be exact) the Academy will offer a meditation class to students. Sifu Matt will teach you how to sit meditation and learn to have a calm and more focused mind that will improve not only your Kung Fu, but your life as well.
The class will start at 11:30am and go till Noon. As Sifu says, “to be good at Kung Fu you must learn to train your own mind as well as technique, learning only technique will only take you half way there”.

Why I study with Sifu Matt @ the VTSDA

Why I study with Sifu Matt @ the VTSDA

Jeff T has been with the school since December of 2012. He’d been wanting to study ving tsun for a pretty long time, so he was quite happy to find Sifu Matt and the Ving Tsun Defense Academy. We’ll let him tell you why.

Sifu Matt and the VTSDA Demo at U of I Champaign for Mid-Autumn Festival

The Ving Tsun Self Defense Academy was invited to the University of Illinois to share a demonstration of Ving Tsun kung fu as part of the Mid-Autumn Festival, September 2012.

Please enjoy the video.

Many thanks to:
Mathew Mario Digiovanni
Humberto Flores Jr.
Aaron Harper
Whitten Hau
Christian Tillich
Robert Veitch

All the disciples and students of Sifu Matt Johnson

The University of Illinois at
Champaign/Urbana

Grandmaster Ip Ching
Great Grandmaster Ip Man

The VTSDA is the only school in Chicago and one of the few in the United States with a direct link to the Ip Man lineage of the Ving Tsun/Wing Chun system.

To learn Ving Tsun in it’s purest form, come to the Ving Tsun Self Defense Academy.

We teach you to train your body and your mind for self defense, fitness and to help you find peace of mind in daily life.

The VTSDA is the only school in Chicago offering comprehensive mind/body training for development of your physical, mental and spiritual capacities.

Come visit the school.
773-301-6257
mjvingtsun.org

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Sifu Matt gives advise on your training.

Ving Tsun Students All Levels

At the Ving Tsun Self Defense Academy we train everyone together. Beginners, long-time students, adults and youth. It makes for better training and more of a traditional feel. This is how my Sifu, Ip Ching teaches in Hong Kong at the VTAA. Not only do I see that it works well for him, but in my own school, I see that students learn better, form the kinds of tight bonds and lack of ego that you want in a good school of kung fu sisters and brothers and that their ving tsun develops nicely.

Here are some photos from tonight’s class. You can see every kind of ving tsun training happening at the same time.

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Saturday Training at the VSTDA

We had a great night….

…during the Chicago Arts District 2nd Friday last night. It was super busy and lots of people came by to check out Ving Tsun student, Rok Teasley’s new art work and to see what ving tsun is.

We followed it up with some mighty fine training. (Especially with some visiting members of our far-flung ving tsun family in town. Dr. Josh is in from Boston and Aaron, (who has a new school in the Champaign area) drove in so the kung fu brothers could have some time together training the ving tsun.

Here’s what some of the action looked like.

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We also had some really nice new guys stop by to check the school out. Always nice to make new friends.