Footage of Sibok Rocco Ambrose teaching at Ambrose Academy

Sibok Rocco Ambrose, of Livonia, Michigan who was named inheritor of Wing Chun Do Gung-Fu by Sijo DeMile, is seen here teaching a concept of perimeter control to his students.

Sibok recently awarded Black Belts to 7 of his students late last year. He has been running a public studio for 15+ years teaching both Adults and Children as well as future instructors of Wing Chun Do Gung-fu.

Hopefully someday we'll have an opportunity for all those in Wing Chun Do and DeMile Defensive Tactics, to come together again to build a connection and train with one another.

In the meantime, here's a chance for my students and those of us here on the Westcoast to see what's going on in the Midwest.

Enjoy!

Some New Footage

Here's some new Training footage:

First up is our Negotiation exercise. A lot of self-defense programs, and martial artists can easily over look the importance of the pre-fight. Because of this a self-defense/martial arts practitioner that has no training in dealing with the pre-fight can become "trigger happy" which can work against them in a court of law.

In what you're about to see it's important that the student learns how to verbalize to diffuse the situation so that he 1.) let's the opponent know both verbally (by telling the aggressor to not come any closer) and physically (through the body language of stepping back) that he is not interested in fighting, and 2.) that he be aware of how close the aggressor is coming. The first point of importance will help in a court of law especially with witnesses as time and time again, it's been proven that several different witnesses will give you different accounts. So if you're saying you don't want to fight, and saying to the guy, in your own way, that you don't want him to come any closer you're giving the guy fair warning and expressing the importance of how much you don't want to fight. By stepping back, if a witness cannot hear what you're saying, the witness can at least see that you're body language shows you are not interested in fighting and helping aid your argument for self-defense.

Distance awareness will be a good gauge to make sure you know that he's committed to actually attacking you, and when to deploy your defense.



The next footage shows some of the more intermediate and advance things we do with Closing the gap and trapping both from a far away camera angle and up close. Always being concerned for the students growth, Sifu Michael (in red) is having the student move slower, taking his time, so that it gives the brain the opportunity to process the information so that he can execute the right response for him. In this case the information is the counter that Sifu Michael is giving as he plays the role of the opponent/aggressor: