AWCA Notebook

For those unaware, AWCAOnline has most of its media currently available (except for a couple of issues of AWCA Notes). The last 2 months of back-issues are almost ready for release, too, so that will bring us current.

For the updates, you will now find that January – April 2008 of the newsletter is available and focuses on section 1 of the wooden dummy. Click here to go to AWCAOnline’s Muk-Yan-Chong section for more information about the wooden dummy.

June’s Video of the Month is also available and discusses how a Wing Chun practitioner “might” approach a kick defense. Note that “might” is used here because every situation is different and rarely will one movement or concept be the appropriate “answer” for every encounter. On the whole, however, the concept of how we approach our kick defenses is related, which will help to assist those curious about how it really happens (as well as “why.”)

I am also working as quickly as possible to make Volume 4: Biu-Tze and Volume 5: Muk-Yan-Chong available from our eBook Training Series, so look for that announcement soon. It has been a long road developing both for today’s PC systems, but they are finally closing in on the finish line. Hopefully you will think it was worth the wait as much as I do.

Also, get ready for some really great articles being posted here on the AWCA Weblog! In my spare time (as little as that is, of course) I have been working on some in-depth training segments to be posted here that will “up the anty” for your training. The trick, however, is to ensure that information is not repeated in multiple venues.

For example, we have the Weblog, plus AWCA Notes, plus AWCAOnline, plus our Video of the Month. Whereas most WC-related websites have only one medium for training (and sometimes not even that), we have four. While that sounds great, it is also quite hectic to keep moving forward and to ensure that information is not repeated throughout each venue.

But where the Weblog is concerned, this is a great place for meeting, so look for those entries to be made available very soon.

Lastly, we have a brand new version of AWCAOnline almost ready to be made available. With the “social networking” scheme of things becoming a literal way of life for some, I have created a brand new site from the ground up that includes various avenues for taking advantage of this.

For example, many of our pages will be made available on sites such as MySpace, Digg, etc. While I personally am not much of a fan of “social networking,” it does come in handy for helping everyone reach their target of learning by giving them a voice on what they want to see. Granted, things will – overall – still be related as I want it to, because in the end, it is how I believe it should be related and how I learned it.

In that, however, I am also quite open to relating the training areas that many of you seek, so I have made concessions for that by building it into the new site design.

I am quite excited about making it available, too! Very clean, easy to read, and easy to navigate in order to find what you are looking for as quickly as possible.

So, those are the basic updates for now, and more information will be related as we get closer to the release dates. Stay tuned, ’cause it is going to be a great ride in 2008!