My Journey in Wing Chun by Greg LeBlanc

Greg LeBlanc I began my training in Wing Chun quite  by accident, and if I had not met Sifu Gary Lam when I did its unlikely I would have ever studied Wing Chun. In 1997 I had the fortune of meeting a student of Sifu Lam’s who invited me to observe a class. At the time I was not particularly interested in Wing Chun but I did have a friend who was in search of a traditional Chinese martial arts teacher, so I invited him along and off we went one Saturday morning to check out the class.

At the time I had been searching for a martial arts teacher who understood how to generate power using the entire body from the ground up (called structure) and could demonstrate that kind of power under pressure. In my past experience training in the martial arts I had encountered several teachers who had the ability to issue power with structure, which is what one of my former Sifu’s had called the “goodies” of Chinese martial arts. The difference I saw in Sifu Lam was the natural ease he had at being able to apply structural power at a precise angle under pressure with direct, relentless attacks.

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