terça-feira, 20 de agosto de 2024
The Pin of the Moy Yat Sang Family: An Essay
segunda-feira, 19 de agosto de 2024
Back at the museum that Moy Yat visited in São Paulo
"...Hoje é o primeiro dia da minha segunda viagem ao Brasil. Estou muito feliz por estar aqui neste museu. Anteriormente, eu pensava que um museu era um lugar destinado apenas a guardar grandes coisas relacionadas à autenticidade, para que as pessoas pudessem olhar e se lembrar delas. Assim, isso me lembra que eu mesmo, minha teoria, assim como vocês, também farão parte de um museu, o Museu Ving Tsun Kung Fu 詠春. Também acredito que apenas a verdade pode durar para sempre, já que as pessoas quererão conhecê-la mesmo depois de centenas de anos. Se o Ving Tsun Kung Fu não fosse tão bom quanto os itens deste museu, não poderia ser apresentado aqui..." (Patriarca Moy Yat - Museu do Ipiranga, São Paulo, 1992)
"...Today is the first day of my second trip to Brazil. I’m very happy to be here in this museum. Previously, I thought that a museum was place meant only to keep great things related to authenticity, so people could look at and be reminded of. Thereby, it reminds me that myself, my theory, as well as yourselves will also be part of a museum, the Ving Tsun Kung Fu 詠春 Museum.I also believe that only the truth can last forever, since people will want to know about it even after hundreds of years. If Ving Tsun Kung Fu was not as good as the items in this museum, it couldn’t be presented here..." (Patriarch Moy Yat - Ipiranga Museum , Sao Paulo, 1992)
Usually around 12 p.m. or 1 p.m., the activities at the Moy Yat Institute come to a halt so that Si Gung can pick up his parents from their home and take them to lunch wherever they wish. Si Gung generally has one or two suggestions in mind. We leave the Institute, and Si Gung often touches upon some relevant point from the morning’s activities or continues the discussions from the coffee break. When we arrive at his parents' building, something amusing tends to happen. The conversation often synchronises with the car manoeuvring into the gate, but as it takes a while to open, Si Gung usually says, "That's why..." — it's his moment to make a final remark. Then, once inside the garage, he hands me the keys to his parents' car while he goes to fetch them from their apartment. The car always seems much larger than it is, so it takes me a few minutes to manoeuvre it without risking scratching it. This is the time for Si Gung to appear, bringing his mother in her wheelchair. She always looks quite content at these moments, as does his father. Si Gung then sets up a situation for his mother to do a small exercise of getting in and out of the car. After that, he releases the wheelchair, I fold it up and store it in the boot. By this time, his father is already seated in the car. — "Shall we go to Hung Bin?" — Si Gung playfully interacts with his parents throughout the journey, regardless of which restaurant we’re heading to. His parents laugh at his jokes. On this particular day, Si Suk Morioka and his son were following our car. Without hurry, Si Gung likes to drive through neighbourhoods that are part of his history. We pass by associations and dojos where he trained; sometimes we pass by streets where they lived, and other times by schools he attended. — "Do you remember that my friend so-and-so lived here?" — Si Gung asks his parents. These are stories that sometimes go back about 50 years in São Paulo. For me, it’s a delightful exercise to imagine those same picturesque streets from the 1960s and 70s. Despite the difficulties, it must have been a time of high adventures, without a doubt. — "...I used to come here to run every day, Thiago..." — Si Gung said, referring to a modest little square surrounded by a maze of streets that resembled a page or two from a Maurício de Sousa comic. — "...I used to come here to train every day..." — he added. — "...How old were you, sir?" — He paused for two or three seconds to think, and I believe he said 17. Can you imagine? It really seems like a more romantic and innocent era for martial arts in Brazil.
Master Thiago Pereira
moyfatlei.myvt@gmail.com
@thiago_moy
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
Cham Kiu and a Lot of Lack of Attention (São Paulo, 2024)
- The photos today are by Raffy Carvalheira.
- In the photos, I appear with Si Suk Morioka, although the text refers to practising with Si Suk Leonardo Pimenta.
quinta-feira, 15 de agosto de 2024
Learning to work with the Ving Tsun Experience Programme
terça-feira, 6 de agosto de 2024
Re-studying "BIU JI" in the city of Niterói w/ GM LEO
"Kung Fu é resultado", costuma dizer Si Gung. E, de fato, para alcançar um bom resultado, eu e Juan precisamos nos dedicar muito. Entre o nosso último encontro e este, por exemplo, resolvi ir a São Paulo e, na oportunidade, reestudar o "Cham Kiu", onde pude finalmente sentir meu corpo fazendo os movimentos de forma limpa. Acontece que Juan também está ficando muito bom, e ao nos atermos a uma coerência profunda, o processo de transmissão fica muito mais desafiador. Apesar disso, percebemos uma melhora um no outro. Não sabemos exatamente onde, mas sabemos que ela está lá. Tudo isso ocorre sob o monitoramento constante do Si Gung, que não fala nada objetivamente; seus apontamentos são muito sutis e sempre nos levam a uma reflexão sobre a natureza do Domínio. Por isso, mesmo em momentos em que paramos e eu pego um pouco de biscoitinho, as contribuições sempre orientam para a natureza do Domínio ou para uma compreensão sistêmica. Com isso, fica mais fácil entender o que é um MPA e uma pausa estratégica.