Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 80

choice but to charge for my classes
and seminars (I do this for a living)
but I firmly believe that there is
another way of doing things. A way in
which practicing an ANCIENT ART is
the most important thing. It is and it
should be above everything. And
practical issues should never be
mixed with commercial issues. In the
same
way,
the
technical
improvements within the style should
never be linked to the economic
capacity because this, in my opinion,

creates a serious problem for the art
itself.
Thirdly, we would like to fight
against the SECTARIANISM many
WingTsun teachers promote. They
prevent students from lear ning,
sharing and exploring what other
teachers propose. I have listened to
no less than 100 teachers say they do
the original, authentic and proper
WingTsun ... I could understand that
but then, they usually claim that the

other teachers don’t know the art at
all. That they are the only ones who
know the “truth”. I admit that this
topic sounds laughable today, but for
years it tormented me. How can this
exist in the XXI century in a globalized
world supposedly inhabited by free
individuals? Well, sure many of my
readers know what I mean.
The fourth of the major changes
that TAOWS Academy proposes to all
followers of Wing Tsun is the constant