SIFU OCH WING CHUN INC.
LAKELAND, FLORIDA

We really love what we do, and our chief instructor has been doing martial arts for almost 30 years. It is my strongly held belief that Wing Chun Kung Fu is one of the most relevant, practical forms of self defense throughout the martial arts. To truly learn necessary essential training, it must be coupled with persistence, practice and dedication. This is why we don’t play the “points” game or practice fancy movements, jump kicks,etc. Wing Chun Kung Fu is down to earth and devastating system of self defense when practiced efficiently. Our goal is to hone your skills until you are fully able to use what you learn here in real-world scenarios. We hope you never have to get into a fight, and you can avoid one at all costs. Though if a fight is put upon you, we want you to be able to end it quickly and protect your loved ones. If you want to understand who we are and what makes Sifu Och Wing Chun tick, it’s our dedication to our craft. , Sifu Och Wing Chun Kung Fu is a place dedicated to the combat behind the Ip Man lineage training and increasing the understanding of powerful, relevant self-defense skills for the modern age. Sifu Och Wing Chun teaches you what you need without fluff and fancy movements. Increasing your confidence while keeping your loved ones safe in a family environment filled with people who care about each other. The individuals here will aid you regardless of whether your goal is to learn Wing Chun, develop self defense skills, or get in shape. Our theory of self defense, discipline, and personal training are the same—what you put into your training you get out of it. in Lakeland to give kids kung fu, kids kickboxing, hip hop, language classes, ballroom, fine arts classes, and much more. Whether it’s our after-school program, summer camps, kids martial arts, or holiday day camps, this powerhouse of instructors and teachers provide top-rated care and exciting opportunities for kids of all ages. allows us to add programs like culinary classes, foreign language classes, dance lessons, and more to our martial arts, kid kickboxing, and wing chun kung fu program—all in all, your kids will learn all sorts of skills and be kept engaged and active. All of our instructors are carefully screened, and teachers go through background checks and are trained to care for your children and provide a safe and healthy environment. Learn more about Sifu Och Wing Chun: It was originally conceived by a woman who was a master in her own right of many Shaolin Kung Fu styles from the Sil Lum Temple. As the art was developed by her, it is also said that four of her Shaolin Monk Brothers (also masters of various Shaolin Systems) helped her to refine and complete the style we now call Wing Chun. Most Shaolin Kung Fu styles take 15-20 years before a practitioner could use them in battle and become a “Master” of the style. Ng Miu saw the destruction of the Shaolin Temples and that their way of life under the Ming Dynasty was being threatened. She decided to create a system that could be Mastered in a third of the time (3 to 4+ years instead of 15-20). Wing Chun strikes along the centerline vitals with simultaneous succession of offensive and defensive trapping and attacks. A wing chun practitioner is taught to be strong, firm, flexible, rooted and to deflect or redirect external forces with minimal effort and maximum countering results. This new Kung Fu system called Wing Chun was developed within the Shaolin temples and became progressively more efficient as it had time in the hands of several masters. Wing Chun was a martial art that was made to exploit the weaknesses of all other arts and was made to minimize the efforts and effects of Combat on the practitioner. Wing Chun uses intense and specific mind and body mechanic training and awareness which is derived through muscular, tendon and articular reaction drills. With extremely fast and powerful footwork, fist and full body striking movements, Wing Chun is used to end a life-threatening encounter quickly while minimizing damage to its practitioner. A Wing Chun practitioner is taught to redirect incoming aggressive adversaries and use a multitude of strikes at the inherent weaknesses in the human body. Its originator, the Buddhist nun Ng Mui, was a master of many Shaolin Kung Fu Styles and used this knowledge to take advantage of the weaknesses inherent in all other combat systems. This new system was well-guarded by the Shaolin Temple, Ching assassins, and passed on to only a few, very dedicated individuals towards the cause of freedom. Ng Mui later traveled around the country, but before she left she told Yim Yee Wing Chun to strictly honor the Shaolin Kung Fu traditions, to develop her Wing Chun Kung Fu after her marriage to the love of her life, and to help the revolutionaries working to overthrow the Manchu government and restore the Ming Dynasty. In 1949, Ip Man, who was considered to be the grandmaster of modern Wing Chun, brought the style out of China into Hong Kong, teaching his two son’s Ip Ching, Ip Chun and the famous Bruce Lee, Wong Shun Leung, Simon Lau and Moy Yat and then eventually to the rest of the world. There is a rich history of Chinese assassins and espionage, and this has a lot to do with what modern Wing Chun has evolved into today. Legend says that during the Qing Dynasty, Yim Wing Chun kept her promise and, after her marriage, Yim Wing Chun taught her husband Leung Bok Chau who in turn taught the second generation practitioners of Wing Chun Kuen. From intense research we have found clues that these students worked as a Red Boat Opera Troupe by day and anti-Qing revolutionaries by night. They passed these techniques on to Leung Lan Kwai who then passed them on to Wong Wah Bo. Wong Wah Bo was a member of an opera troupe onboard the Red Junk and worked with Leung Yee Tei. It so happened that Abbot Chi Shin, who fled from Siu Lam, had disguised himself as a cook working on the Red Junk. Many of the opera members had training in Siu Lam fist and pole techniques, acrobatics, and various two-man sets. Their identities as Chinese opera performers provided a cover for martial arts training. The flashy moves of opera style martial arts, however, were not suited to the activities of espionage and assassination, which required extremely specialized skills.