"Do you suppose they will choose to make war against lean, solid dogs rather than against fat and tender sheep?"
W.E. Fairbairn's fights can't have looked cool. If done by the book, they would last just a couple seconds and look ugly and artless, more like a car wreck than a Jackie Chan movie. But that doesn’t mean Fairbairn didn't hide a lot of clever “programming” deep in the code. Nowadays it is a cliché... Continue Reading →
in which we meditate on what Wing Chun has to do with the historical European martial art (HEMA) of British World War II combat master W.E. Fairbairn, late of the Shanghai Municipal Police W.E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) of the pre-war Shanghai Municipal Police. More than anyone else in the 20th century, Anglo-Chinese expatriate W.E. Fairbairn shaped... Continue Reading →