Kung fu is patient - when you need to take a break from training, it’ll wait inside you like a tiger in tall grass, ready to pounce whenever you are. But nothing - I mean nothing - beats going to class.

Siu nim tao is the very first thing we learn in ving tsun kung fu. It contains the most basic movements, and the most complex study, of the entire system. Ten years after that first day, I’m looking at the form with new focus and still learning new things about it.