NEW LOCATION AND NEW TIMES!!!

The Ving Tsun Gung Fu Institute is proud to announce a NEW LOCATION with NEW TIMES!!!

 

As of July, we have moved into Eternity Dance Studio, which is located at 2408 E. Brock St., Mission, TX 78572 Suite D (Those of you familiar with Mission will know this in the plaza where the Dai Tung restaurant is, in the corner suite)!!! Since October of 2007 I have been teaching semi-privately out of my home and Bannworth park and we have had to put up with inclement weather and such and have had to cancel classes but now with an indoor studio, this is no longer the case!!! 

We are now enrolling ADULTS for evening classes. The schedules is as follows

Tuesday: 630 to 830 pm (Skill training)

Thursday: 6:30 to 7:30 pm (form emphasis training)

Saturday: 10am to 12pm (Open class)

 

Enrollment is by appointment. Enrollment into the Ving Tsun Gung Fu Institute requires a membership into the Matt Johnson Ving Tsun Martial Art Association which is $50 annually. Monthly dues for training are STILL ONLY $55 A MONTH!!!! You can’t beat this price for the absolute best in martial art or self defense course ANYWHERE in the Rio Grande Valley!!!!

To make your appointment, call Sifu Moses Flores at 956-207-1811!!!!

Another year down….whats up and coming?

On behalf of myself, I would like to say thanks to all my students who have made this year in Wing Chun a great one!!! We were able to have 3 seminars with Sifu Matt Johnson this year and take a trip to Chicago to go and train with Sifu Matt up there and meet our other kung fu brothers and sisters and kung fu cousins as well!! It was truly a blessed year!!! here is a small clip of some footage  from our last seminar in November.

We have lots of great things planned for this upcoming year including an extended visit from Sifu Matt in the summer and hopefully (still have this in the works) Sifu Chris Damiano from Destin, FL to come come and do a dual seminar on the Ip Ching Wing Chun system!!! We are also looking to do a seminar in the Brownsville area in the summer as well being that we have a contact in that area. Lots of good things!!!

Also, all new members of the VTGFI are required to join the Matt Johnson Ving Tsun Martial Art Association. This involves filling out an application, supplying a recent passport photo to attach with it and a $75 lifetime membership fee. Current students are not required to fill this out. However, in the past for seminars students who have paid for the seminar have received a free months tuition for the month in which the seminar has been held. THIS WILL NO LONGER APPLY THIS YEAR! Rather, it will ONLY apply to members of the Matt Johnson Ving Tsun Martial Art Association.  So if you are serious about saving some money in the long run in your training, all current students should strongly consider joining the MJVTMAA!! This is a one time fee and will go to supporting your Si Gung’s training to bring us all quality instruction through Ip Ching. Other benefits are still forthcoming.

Also, keep in mind that we would like to take another trip to Chicago in late July or early August again so start saving up money!! This past summer we were able to stay for 4 days and had the Chinatown experience of Chicago, as well as visit Millennium Park, Navy Pier and had a blast on the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower) which is a quarter mile up!! We were also able to have a taste of Chicago eating at many different local restaurants having breaded steak sandwiches, Chicago style hotdogs and the famous Chicago style deep dish pizzas!! Above all, we were able to get in lots of training at the Ving Tsun Self Defense Academy with Sifu Matt Johnson, including a private class for all the visiting Texas students as well as private training.  Start saving!!!!!

On behalf of Sifu Tim Santos and Sifu Moses Flores, we want to wish everyone a happy new year and we look forward to working with you this year!!!

General Information about signing up for classes

The Ving Tsun Gung Fu Institute is a semi private Wing Chun training class in the Rio Grande Valley. Our schedule is generally on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 pm to 830 pm. Classes are structured so that all students of any level from beginning to intermediate and advanced cnl all learn and train. Hence, the instructional method is differentiated instruction.

Before being allowed to train an informal interview is required in which the following questions should be addressed

1) How did you find out about us and Wing Chun?

2) Do you have any previous martial art training? If so, what Art and how long were you training in it?

3) Why do you want to learn wing chun? That is, what are you looking to get out of learning this art?

from here, usually students will be invited to check out one class to see if they will be ok with the instruction location(s) and methods. Some training requires solo performance and the ability to apply teaching through form training. I unapologetically teach Kung Fu the traditional way through the forms as my Sifu Matt Johnson has handed them down to me and his Sifu, Ip Ching, has handed them down to him. I do not cut corners and students must learn to see the reliance on the information and principles that are gained through the form training in order to appreciate their applicability in chi sau and ultimately into self defense situations.

Applicants must also be able to get along with other students. One thing that will stunt growth more than anything is ego.  Wing Chun training involves many drills and training exercises that involve contact with a training partner. All students are required to help each other grow in their training. Intentional striking to cause harm will not be tolerated.

Upon being accepted into the training group, all applicants are required to fill out an application for the Matt Johnson Ving Tsun Martial Art Association which requires a recent passport photo to be attached to the application as well as a $75 lifetime membership fee as well as the first months tuition which is $55 and to be paid on first week of each month.

Any questions that would further like to be discussed with myself about the training can be discussed in the informal interview. For more information feel free to call Sifu Moses Flores at 956-207-1811

Siu Lim Tao and Chi Sau Seminar with Sifu Matt Johnson!!!!!!!!!!

Ready to make his 8th trip back to the Rio Grande Valley, Sifu Matt Johnson, a direct student of Grandmaster Ip Ching, will be teaching a Siu Lim Tao and Chi Sau seminar on Saturday, November 5th from 12pm to 5pm. The Seminar will be held at “Eternity Dance Studio”  located at 2408 Brock St, Mission, TX 78572.

Siu Lim Tao is Wing Chun’s foundational and most important form. According to Sifu Matt, it has the most to teach about the core principles of the entire Wing Chun system. Sifu Matt will be going over the form order, correct position, energies and applications to better understand and appreciate this often neglected foundational form. Sifu Matt will also cover Chi Sau.

Chi Sau is wing chun’s main training drill in which the practitioner engages in a contact reflex exercise in order to develop many different skills that are all used in fighting. Chi Sau is often misunderstood and sometimes neglected in wing chun because many people do not understand it. Sifu Matt has been trained by Grandmaster Ip Ching, and having trained with him from almost 3 years I can personally assure you that Sifu Matt knows what he is doing with Chi Sau.

The seminar is open to beginners with little or no experience to advanced practitioners. Other lineages are welcomed.

Seminar fee is $100 AND if you reserve your spot BEFORE November 1, you will receive the month of November for FREE with Sifu Moses Flores’ training group in Mission!! That’s a $55 deal! For more information about the seminar or to reserve you spot with your payment, call Sifu Moses Flores at 956-207-1811 (rgvwingchun@yahoo.com) or Sifu Tim Santos at 956-207-7450 (wingchunwarrior@yahoo.com).

Wing Chun/Self Defense Demo at Lark Branch of the McAllen Public LIbrary

Sifu Moses Flores, along with Sifu Tim Santos, of the Ving Tsun Gung Fu Institute and the Matt Johnson Ving Tsun Association will be doing a one hour Wing Chun Kung Fu demonstration at the Lark Branch of the McAllen Public Library on Saturday, September 17, 2011.

The event begins at 2:30 pm and is open to the public. For more information visit www.mcallenlibrary.net . The Lark Branch is located at 2601 Lark Ave, McAllen, TX. For more information, you can call the Library at 956-668-3320.