Beginner Wing Chun students can use these videos to learn and memorize the shapes and sequence of Wing Chun's first empty hand Form 'Siu Nim Tao' which translates to 'Little Idea' or 'Small Thought'.
This sequence is as it was taught by the late Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin.
Chu Shong Tin lived with Ip Man for 5 years (1950-1955) and was coined the title ' the king of siu nim tao' by his master Ip Man. He was a legend in the world of Wing Chun (in particular the internal method of wing chun) and spent 64 years passing it on full-time before he passed away in 2014.
Nima King practiced under him in Hong Kong for 9 years and established Mindful Wing Chun under CST's guidance. Nima is also on the board of Directors for the 'Chu Shong Tin Alumni' which is a group of senior students of CST that were hand picked by him to establish the Alumni and to uphold and continue his teachings and Wing Chun legacy after he passed away.
Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin was a very humble and low-key Wing Chun Master therefore its only after we began putting his videos online, that people started to hear about him. In fact, majority of the main Wing Chun teachers (of the Ip Man lineage) who began practice in the 50s and early 60s (apart of Leung Sheung and Lok Yiu) were trained by CST even-though they were Ip Man's students. This is due to CST being the most snr and main teacher of Ip Man's school in those days.
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Sifu Nima King was born in Iran during the war with Iraq and emigrated to Sydney Australia at the age of 9. Not being able to speak English as well as living in a poor neighbourhood in Sydney meant that he always got into fights as he was defending himself against the bullies.
When he turned 18 he began working as a bouncer in Kings Cross which was Sydney’s red light district and is notorious for how rough and rowdy it can get. During this time he naturally had to defend himself and others and put his Martial Arts ability to test countless number of times.
Nima began practising Wing Chun in Sydney, Australia, in Sifu Jim Fung’s Wing Chun Academy in 1998. In 2003 he met Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin (CST) in a seminar and was absolutely blown away by his seemingly effortless yet tremendous power!
CST was the 3rd student of Ip Man and was actually living with Ip for 5 years and was the main teacher at his school for 14years before he started his own school. He began practicing Wing Chun 6 years before Bruce Lee so was one of his senior classmates at Ip Man’s school. CST was coined the “King of Siu Nim Tao” by Ip Man and is known for the most powerful Wing Chun practitioner of our time.
Nima decided to move to Hong Kong in 2005 to continue his practice with CST, and continued to train under him full-time for nine years before he passed away in 2014, and of all the non-Chinese disciples of Grandmaster Chu in the past 60 years, Nima has spent the most time training under him.
Even after Grandmaster Chu passed away, Nima continued to practise at Chu Shong Tin’s school, and is now one of their senior instructors. Nima is also on the board of directors of the 'Chu Shong Tin Alumni', which was set up by
Grandmaster Chu himself to ensure that his teachings would be preserved and passed on after he passed away.
Nima has over 23 years of Wing Chun teaching experience and is a certified Sifu in Wing Chun by the Ving Tsun Athletic Association (Ip Man’s official association). Since he began his Wing Chun practice, Nima has been training and teaching for over 50 hours a week.
In 2008, Nima established Mindful Wing Chun in Hong Kong and it didn’t take long for it to become the biggest fulltime Kung Fu school in the city which is remarkable since Nima and his team are not Chinese and only teach in English.
In January 2019, with the help of his team, Nima launched Mindful Wing Chun Online (mindfulwingchun . online) which was years in the making, and is the most comprehensive Online School to date! In this, he shares with the world the entire Wing Chun system as passed down by Chu Shong Tin to him in Hong Kong.
As well as Wing Chun, Nima has been practicing Meditation since the late 90s and Breath-work (Pranayama) since 2013 and is now sharing his experience in these practices to his students.
