The IUEWT teaches two logical martial arts from different cultural backgrounds: Wing Tsun, which is native to China, and Escrima, which has its roots in the Philippines. However, both martial arts despite their cultural different income have something in common: both martial arts aim for the logical efficiency of the body as a basis for an optimal self defense.
themselves by a maximum in highlighting their uniqueness in a particular area. As the combat sports or martial art styles are exercised by real humans, it is also the human factor of an intended uniqueness, which serves as a strong driving force to achieve a superior position in front of a broader public. At the same time, the presentation of the uniqueness in correlation to the exercise of a combat sports or martial art discipline are also supposed to indicate a certain supremacy on a personal, social, or economic level. New styles emerge due to this strong demarcation, because any deviation from a previously existing uniqueness represents a new stylistic variance, hence a new style. As constantly young people come into this play anew, they also have a tendency toward achieving uniqueness and so new styles are created, by minimal or maximum differences to previous forms.
Considering Wing Tsun and Escrima, we find that both styles have a common storyline, called logic. Thus, both have a common systematic scheme, but are being stylistically unevenly represented due to the different cultural backgrounds. Both styles have different verbal statements, lingos, training methods, etc. However, both follow the same strand: the logic.
Based on this fact the training concept of the IUEWT has massively progressed in recent years: less building a countless variety of techniques than that the concepts are taught a priori right from the scratch where the teaching process is designed in a way, that the students create their own variety of techniques with the concept! Thus it is to be prevented, that due to the confusion by countless disordered techniques the concepts cannot be consistently swallowed and realized or even being recognized.
At the same time it is ensured that no wrong – right method of teaching emerges, which narrows the students too much and makes them vulnerable to false – right stylistic elements, which then become a mental sanctuary. This notion of the mental sanctuary has the disadvantage that you averse voluntarily separation from sanctuaries, even if they are not always correct. Through the upfront and sustainable methodology of concepts, the creative urge of discovery is awakened in the student at the same time, so that he can develop his own form, as well as the diversity of techniques within the concept.
The old traditional teaching method in combat sports and martial art styles is that, where techniques are specified as objective, which is just learning without purpose. The purpose, the logical concept, which is to be filled with live through the various techniques in a free and creative way, will not be achieved, because usually the techniques are already being considered the fulfilment of the objective. The effort to make an even higher learning curve to include countless techniques into a logical whole is then considered to be too cumbersome. Therefore introducing the big idea right from the beginning makes sense and to develop this with small steps. This means that in the IUEWT you constantly view the things from two sides: small technical steps within the great conceptual framework. The added value to the approach from two stylistic backgrounds towards a broader perspective of things – a greater comprehensive understanding of the body as well as mental understanding is developed, which complement each other.
As Wing Tsun and Escrima have different approaches in dealing with armed and unarmed training, it was often controversial in the past, whether it makes sense to teach with or without weapons right from the beginning. In detail: in Wing Tsun a long time is used at first for the body work without arms, where Escrima is focusing body work with weapons for a long time. Then, the focus shifts into the opposite direction. Unfortunately in the past it was very often wrongly communicated, that when the focus has shifted to the opposite, the focus does not dwell solely on this shift but means to maintain an interplay between unarmed and armed training to continue a balanced training. This is now being endorsed by the IUEWT for the future rebalance this shifted perception, in order enable efficient results for the students. That this means of course a long preparatory process for beginners is assumingly general understanding!
Following key points show the IUEWT training concept:

  • Two styles – one systematic thread · Conceptual foundations are focused right from the beginning, creative development of technical content is encouraged
  • No obligation to learn two styles
  • Different training approaches of both styles along the same logical outline complement each other from the beginning
  • Different body work in both styles along the same logical outline complement each other from the beginning
  • Large room for individual development of the student as a result of the conceptual methodolgy
  • No wrong – right methodology to avoiding stylistic sanctuaries
  • No wrong – right methodology for the maintenance of creativity
  • Classic teaching program for the learning process, later permanent switching of armed / unarmed training for the development of creativity in the respective style