The New Snake vs Crane: More Than a Blog, It’s a Book in Progress
April 25, 2025
From 1999 to 2008, I studied with three different Wing Chun schools. From 2008 to 2018, I studied with Greg LeBlanc and got "most" of the system (why I didn't get Level 3 and "finish" is another story!). From 2018 to present, I have been studying internal martial arts and Western boxing.
In 2018, I also wrote what might be considered “part one” of a book on Wing Chun detailing my take on the system and a compilation of what I had learned so far, trying to bring clarity to what can be a confusing culture and system.
Recently, I’ve been going back and looking through all the resources I’ve accumulated over the years. I took lots of notes in all the schools I trained in, especially Greg’s. I took notes at seminars from Gary Lam, John Smith, Dwight Hennings, and many others.
I’ve decided to finish my book live on this site. This will be a slight change of tone and format, since so far this site has just been my colloquial take on my training and things I found useful. Now I’m going to start publishing essays. My goal is for my book to tackle all the major concepts, forms, and drills in Wing Chun, mostly based on information from the Wong Shun Leung lineage (Gary Lam, Hawkins Cheung, Greg LeBlanc, John Smith, David Peterson, Barry Lee, Cliff Au Yeung, Philipp Bayer, and so on).
This will start shortly – hope you enjoy. At some point, I will edit all the information, wrap it up in a book, and make it available on Amazon for some affordable price. They say you can never sell something that you have been giving away for free, but I have several times bought books like this ( like the book What’s Our Problem by the guy who writes the Wait But Why blog). So I will let Amazon distribute the book for me and maybe I can buy a few coffees with the proceeds. Otherwise, people can slog though my Archives.Back with an article soon!
