Official Blog of City WingTsun Kung Fu & Sifu Alex

It irritates me only on a very small level to hear about what some very misinformed and politically-slanted individuals are writing in the Internet about the Fight Quest episode.  Its been years (five years to be exact) since I gave up reading and participating in Internet "wing chun" forums.  The amount of time I gained for my own practice and teaching was immense and I heartily recommend anyone who is serious about their own WingTsun (wing chun et. al) training to give up this practice of following online wing chun forums.  You won't find any answers there, at least not any answers that matter.  The truth is not posted on those threads and only your own hard work (kung fu) and experience (mistakes) will lead you anywhere close to the truth.  Online forums are filled with two types of people - those who are ignorant of their own ignorance and just post to incite others for their childish pleasure; the other are the "wise" armchair sifu's who pretend to be humble and open while secretly spewing the same garbage to their own students as the first group.  This always reminds me of one of my favorite quotations of "Humility is the worst form of conceit".   But I digress...

I say I'm only mildly irritated because sometimes my students, particularly newer ones are upset when they read this kind of misinformation.  In the case of the Fight Quest episode I feel it is my duty to finally report to the public what went on in the background, when the cameras were off.  This episode had all the potential to be the best episode ever, especially after my initial meetings with the production company.  When we arrived in Hong Kong the production team completely ruined what could have been gold.  My good friend Valantis Stamelos of Crescent Street Films laments the fact that his company could have made something so spectacular with WingTsun and Fight Quest and the world would finally see this great art as they should.  Sigh.

OK, I rambled on too much and ran out of time... I will blog again shortly with the details of what went wrong.  You honestly have no idea what a debacle this was...

Sifu