1. Chi sau in honor of our ving tsun family and friends in Hong Kong
2. Why keeping a notebook is important to your ving tsun practice
3. Why these two students use notebooks for their Ving Tsun training and you should too
4. Why learning the Cantonese terms for Ving Tsun is essential for passing the art on correctly
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“You must practice more!”
(Truth be told, Sifu Matt first heard this in Hong Kong from his good friend and older Ving Tsun brother, his “Sihing,” Sifu Albert Chan.)
And it’s true. The solution to nearly any problem in kung fu is more practice. When you come visit the school, you’re sure to hear that a lot!
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.”
“Don’t worry about perfection. Just train everyday, and try to be just a bit better that you were yesterday and perfection will take care of itself.”
Sifu Matt Johnson
“It doesn’t matter if I’ve used Kung fu in a real situation. You have to do your own training. If I have or I haven’t you still have to do the hard work.”
“Have fun when you train but train seriously. Never forget what we train here. One day you may need it to save your own life.”
Sifu Matt Johnson
“Learn to control yourself first, then controlling the opponent is easy.”
Sifu Matt Johnson
“Fifty percent of your Kung fu comes from me, fifty percent come from your own hard work.”
Sifu Matt Johnson
“Can I teach you to fight? No I can’t. What I can do is teach you Ving Tsun, give you a toolbox of tools and show you how to use them. Whether or not you can fight is up to you and how much you train. But that has to come from you, not me.”
Sifu Matt Johnson
“It all comes down to having good, solid fundamentals.”
Sifu Matt Johnson
Matt Johnson Ving Tsun/Chicago 