The Houston Wing Tsun Backyard Teaches:
It's the combat system of the future.
Houston Wing Tsun Martial Arts Instructor Alex Wallenwein has taught Wing Tsun in Houston since 1988. The school teaches ordinary men and women to survive sudden, deadly attacks - and in the process, to learn how to enjoy life more fully. If that seems like a contradiction to you, it is - and yet it's not. In order to prepare to survive deadly attacks, you must first get to know yourself: your mind, your body, and how they interact with each other. Then, you learn how to use your mind and body to interact with an incoming, hostile force like the force of an actual attacker. The goal is to train your mind and body not to resist, but to complement an attacker's movements in a way that leaves him unable to keep going - and leaves you able to happily live out the rest of your life! En route to this goal, there is the process of self-discovery. You learn things about your own body, your mind, your strengths, your weaknesses - and how to turn your weaknesses into strengths. That is what ultimately improves the quality of your life, and it does it in ways you could never imagine from where you are now. The Houston Wing Tsun Backyard teaches exactly that. What is "Wing Tsun", then? Wing Tsun is a way to learn how to move according to how your attacker actually moves - not according to how you think he will move. It's a way to discover his true intention and to short-circuit his attacks at the outset, long before he gets to complete them. In self defense, the first moment of contact with an attacker has to decide the outcome in your favor, or it's just no good. At the Houston Wing Tsun Backyard, we help you develop that 'flash of the moment' power in yourself through a very systematic teaching method. Every aspect of training is geared toward that - but Wing Tsun is far more than just an 'unarmed weapon'; it has a profound effect on those who practice it with the right attitude. The 'Original' Martial Art?There is an ancient legend in the southern parts of China and Southeast Asia. It tells of an "original" form of martial art whose practitioners attained enlightenment by merely practicing its movements and precepts, without even learning anything about the philosophy behind it. Whether this legend is true or not is unimportant. What is true, however, is that Wing Tsun practitioners in the early years of the art's short history in Germany (since 1975) reported developing insights into Chinese "Taoist" philosophy by practicing their art - without ever having been taught a word about Taoist philosophy itself. One could truthfully say that Wing Tsun is Taoist philosophy in action. Here at the Houston Wing Tsun Backyard, we focus on that action. It's Your Body. It's Your MindWhen moving through the early stages of wing tsun training, probably for the first time in your life you become fully aware of your body and feel every part of it and your body's effect on your mental and emotional state. After a relatively short time, you begin to feel relaxed, at ease, excited, alive, and intensely aware of yourself and your surroundings. As you continue your training, your body grows stronger, leaner, more flexible, and more balanced. You naturally start to breathe deeper, and more oxygen goes into your system, You learn how to practice these new movements while staying totally relaxed and ready, even in close contact with your workout partners. In later stages of your training at the Houston Wing Tsun Backyard (i.e., within weeks and months - not years and decades!) your arms and legs become extensions of your body's sensory apparatus. You learn to contact an attacker’s arms and legs with yours, forcing him to ”tell” you exactly what he is trying to do, to what part of your body, in which direction he is moving, how fast, and with how much power and follow-through. If his attacks threaten your “core” (the major targets along your body’s vertical axis), your arms naturally form flexible barriers to his attacks, moving your body into a safe position while your unoccupied limbs freely “flow” to the unprotected parts of his body, counter-attacking him with relaxation, vicious speed, and deadly ferocity, all while running virtually on auto-pilot. This leaves your mind free to perceive everything your attacker does and everything in your periphery that could become a potential threat to you. At the Houston Wing Tsun Backyard, on the way to learning to fight this way you discover how your body was designed to move, to breathe, and to rest. You practice to almost 'accept' close physical and even dangerous, potentially life-threatening encounters with a relaxed and carefree, almost happy come what may attitude. As a result of this practice, your body and mind become ever closer intertwined until, in the end, they become quite literally "one". At the Houston Wing Tsun Backyard, you learn to move only when necessary, with the exact speed, power, and intensity required by the situation at hand, without losing your cool or composure. As a result, you mentally “open up” to the people you are working out with because you know they are on the same path as you, have the same challenges as you, and are really only trying to be a better “they” as you are learning to become a better you. In the end, you discover that what you are learning and have been learning and training all along is a form of applied philosophy in action, a way of living, responding, and interacting with reality that translates easily into every aspect of the rest of your life, making it happier, fuller, more exciting, more challenging, and far more satisfying and relaxing than you ever could have imagined. What in the beginning was a limited two-hour 'vacation' during class times from the sameness, the lameness, and the stress of everyday life becomes a lifetime pursuit of happiness and personal power, a new way of life. It is how human beings were supposed to live from the beginning. Self Defense? Wing Chun IS Self Defense - and More Visit our YouTube Channel.
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