Real Wing Chun Power - Sifu Chris Chan - 詠春拳 - 陳成師父打沙袋

[kwansao]

this guy is no joke

[antibiotic0]

I don't know if kwansao is still here, but hello again. Guys I just had to log on again and say it's good everyone is still keeping WC alive. Been overseas for a while and attempted to see Grand Master Chan and Master Eddie Chun, but missed both. I talked to Master Chun, by telephone and he's doing great. He has some very good DVD's out, and does anyone know if GM Chan has any DVD's out.

[kwansao]

@antibiotic0 email me at kwansao@gmail.com i might be able to get one for you.

[olieboo218]

man i love this dude when i was 10 he tought mee abt serial killers and how to get away from one ..... and for that i love him.... he is the REAL DEAL and no JOKE (: <333333 LOTTA LOVE

[msniemi]

Wow, it's cool seeing Grandmaster Chan again! I haven't seen him since 2004... I didn't get to train under him very long because I ended up transferring to another college. =( Wish he trained in LA!!

Anyone know of a good Kung Fu place out here... in the Torrance Area?? (LA County)

[kwansao]

@msniemi Gary Lam, Hawkins Cheung.

[baragentledragon]

great

[tatarcha]

Wow!  What a great sound! I have been a student of Grandmaster Chan since 1975 and I can attest that he has always been the real deal. Just watch his videos and see his stances and fluid movement. I read some of the comments people posted about him that were disrespectful. I know that once you met him, you would change and respect him.

[ShaunKook]

Super power, nice!!!

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

weres sonichu?

[kwansao]

@Skinnyoompalumpa he's in the sandbag

[serbsmight]

serbsmight@bab4 Chris does teach the classes hinself. sometime he have one of his senior student leads the physical strngthing part of the class. He is the only teacher today that interacts with the students, not like them other styles and systems which you cant even get close cause the man is an so called grand master.

[bab4]

Just wondering if Sifu Chan teaches in person nowadays or if it's just the assistant instructors who teach?

[kwansao]

@bab4 he teaches every class personally and actually does not have assistant instructors.

[antibiotic0]

Glad sifu chong is still active. I trained with him in San Fran around the 80's while he was teaching in his garage. At that time he was treaching really traditional, like he was in China. Thanks for keeping everyone inform. Contact me anytime, presently living in Alabama, only one wing chun school here, so presently studying Hapkido, and praticing my WC

[antibiotic0]

I trained with Sifu Chan, early 90's, on Market st. I consider his style of teaching as hard, bcuz the other wing chun, I've taken I consider soft, but still great. Sifu Chan, is the real deal. I remember he palm struck a wall in class, and it actually scared me. I had never seen anyone with that much power. I still practice his teaching because it's based on power, which comes in handy if your (56). The sand bag is my bread & butter. Also, kwansao you right on the money with your comments.

[bigislander72]

@antibiotic0 Awesome. Did you train at the Market near Van Ness location? Remember peeking in the window and knew instantly that this was the real deal. Scary raw and brutal looking.

Trained there in the late 90's and then for a bit after he moved to the Lawton street location.

Damn straight about a lot of other wing chun schools teaching it real soft and light handed compared to the way Sifu Chan teaches it.

[antibiotic0]

Just thought I mentioned that I also trained with Sifu Eddy Chong, there a few more years. Very good teacher, but I call that teaching the soft style, great, but different from Sifu Chan's style of teaching. At that time I thought they were both great teachers due to the fact that I was a black male trying to learn kung from an true instructor, and neither one had a problem with it.

[kwansao]

i just droped by eddie chong's school in sac a few days ago. it looks like a good school.

[antibiotic0]

Hey guys & girls, Sifu Chan, is the real deal. I trained with him in San Fran, the eary 90's. I had studied under another, but the way Sifu Chan, teaches is really something different. I call it the hard/soft wing chun. Also, kwansao you are correct, I didn't read your bio, you must have studied under too. I remember seeing him hit a wall inside the class, and it scared me because I never seen that must power from a person. Further, we would hit the sand bags, and free sand in buckets.

[tommyelgato]

is this the chris chan as depicted by Ian on his christianwchandler profile?

[kwansao]

@tommyelgato NO. Chris Chan is the western name of Chan Kam Shing who is a kung fu teacher. He trained in Hong Kong in the 1950s with Bruce Lee and other students of the late Ip Man.

[x3jaicp]

Oh I was here when this was recorded. The old school <3.

And more specifically they aren't actually gravel bags really. Simple grains of sand!

[kwansao]

you're right. this wasn''t a gravel bag but one with fine grains of sand tightly packed.

[DrTzeus]

Did Uncle Yip condition his hands on Gravel Bags?

[kwansao]

I don't know, I've never heard anything one way or the other about Ip Man's conditioning. But I was told by Chan Sifu that Si Gung did have sandbags in his school, and that some students conditioned their hands, while others didn't. Chris told me that Ip Man showed him the sandbag and approved of his training.

[guardianlordmaster]

do you know where is chris chan right now? cause i think he move T_T .. can you give some information about him.

[blackdragonbxr]

Sifu Chris Chan is now training at Nothern Tiger Kenpo in San Francisco, 1319 20th ave. 415 731 2030. He teaches 3 days a week. monday and wednesday 7;30 to 9:30 pm and saturday 2 to 4 pm. His new location is is in a very large studio, 2000 square feet, 18 foot ceiling, mirrors, hardwood floors, 6 dummys, olympic weights, chin up bars, power tower, sand bags, sand bag tables, sand bag posts, kicking posts, kicking WALLS, heavy bags, focus mitts, staffs, spears, machetes, sparring gear, etc.

[bigislander72]

@blackdragonbxr So if the Lwaton St. location still active?

Wow, olympic weights(did you mean bumper plates and olympic platforms?) and Wing Chun. Two of my favorite things. Wonder how Sifu Chan feels about all those "dead weights" though :D

[blackdragonbxr]

@bigislander72 the lawton street school is closed. he now trains at my school on 1319 20th ave. olympic weights and large bench . no separate platform.

[ledgohan]

it's my understanding that Yip Man taught sand bag training, but for soft penetrating punches, not for these kind of punches. Also I understand that many of his students tried to add extra elements to their training such as iron palm/fist techniques and karate kicks (in the dummy) which yip man did not teach.

[kwansao]

everybody changes the system. every single time the system was transmitted from master to student it changed. Take a look at the rest of my videos. look at the leung jan style, the chan wah shun style, the ip man style, and all of ip man's students. no substyle is the same as any other substyle. ip man didn't teach this way. so what? nobody can teach like ip man except for ip man. everybody does it their own way.

[ledgohan]

yes, I was just commenting on DrTzeus' question.

[schulleee]

@ledgohan

karate kicks or great kicks in general are not supposed to be in wing chung at all though.

jsut because ... if you´d add those kicks, what would be the sense of doing wing chun then ? it´s made for that you don´t need them :\

... what i know is that yip man always told Chris how important the sandbag is, to train the shoulder and harden fists and forearm

[eage11744]

Holy shit......the power of those hits are mind blowing even from the video. SNT and sandbags...wow.... Was this really filled with steel balls? I am stupified and respectful to his commitment to the training.

[kwansao]

it was a gravel bag if i recall correctly. tightly packed too, you could break your hand on it if they weren't conditioned.

[TheNapconut]

I trained on

Market street with sifu & when we went to confront Black face Nam in Fosan for insulting Yip Man & Yip Chun in the inside Kung Fu Magazine, everyone Bowed down to sifu because they new they lost before any fighting even started. Sifu Chan is a true Legend

[kwansao]

that was in 1996? eddie chong from sacramento was there. i visited the pan nam school with chan sifu a few years ago and those guys are still very competitive

[TheNapconut]

That happened in 1993 glad to hear you went with Sifu, Did you visit Yip Man's grave?

[kwansao]

i didn't get a chance to but would love to next time.

[civic691]

damn for real? sifu chan is the man! i trained with him around the late 90s

[ASSBANG6969]

I trained with Chris when the school was located on Market street. I sweated like a pig doing those forms. I think I lost at least Five pounds or more the first Month I was there. Chris is a Genuine BadAss. Amazing Power! He could hurt you Bad if Not Kill you with one Punch. If you did not know him, he looks like an Average older Guy, but he is DEADLY!

[foxydn4]

the man doesn't look like a figher at all! don't judge a book by it's cover! he seems to have a heavy punch alright.

[iSeward]

damn for real? i dont see that sandbag at the new dojo.

[daddyo]

That bag was full of 2inch steel balls

[clue2199]

OMG!!! Image if that was someones face!! he will make you the strongest man in the world!! thanks for the post

[blokcom]

Is this a recent clip of Chris?

[kwansao]

yes about a year ago

[jaygmui]

i remember that sandbag. it hurts like hell when u hit it. its a fricking rock

[pedroinlondonvideos]

Thanks for the video. But why do you say this method is much safer that makiwara ones?

[gigbandulu]

respect!

[ph8tel]

Wow, Grandmaster Chan in action. He is as impressive as ever. Great video Kwansao, thank you for sharing it.