J’S GYM FUNCTIONAL WING CHUN
Learn Wing Chun and practical self-defense in a language you understand. No Japanese ability is required. Instruction is also available in Japanese, allowing international and Japanese residents to train together.
Private lessons Available now
Kids’ and adult classes Now gathering interest
Horinouchi · Keikyu Otsu · Maborikaigan area
TRAIN IN YOKOSUKA
Begin now with individual instruction, or register your interest in the new kids’ and adult group classes being planned in Yokosuka.
INDIVIDUAL TRAINING
Individual instruction adapted to your experience, goals and pace. Private lessons are available for children, teenagers and adults, including complete beginners.
Initial enrollment fee: ¥11,000. No enrollment fee with the five-lesson plan.
Ask about a private lesson →KIDS’ WING CHUN
Ages 6–12
A new children’s Wing Chun class taught in English and Japanese. English-speaking children can learn martial arts in a language they understand. No Japanese ability is required.
ADULT GROUP TRAINING
Beginners and experienced martial artists
A planned Functional Wing Chun class where international and Japanese residents can train together. Instruction is available in English, so you do not need to speak Japanese.
Group-class times and locations will be selected according to the number and availability of interested participants. Registering your interest does not commit you to joining.
TRAIN IN A LANGUAGE YOU UNDERSTAND
No Japanese ability is required.
Lessons can be taught in English, allowing international residents and English-speaking children to understand the training clearly from the beginning.
Instruction is also available in Japanese. This allows English-speaking and Japanese-speaking students to train together without either language becoming a requirement for joining.
You can receive the explanations and corrections you need in English. No Japanese ability is required.
Japanese instruction is also available, allowing local and international residents to train together.
English-speaking children can learn martial arts in a language they understand. Japanese-speaking children can participate normally while also enjoying natural exposure to English through shared training.
This is a martial arts class, not an English conversation school.
Understanding the training and practising safely always come first.
THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
Functional Wing Chun does not treat physical techniques as the beginning of self-defense. By the time someone attacks, many earlier opportunities to prevent the situation may already have been lost.
Students first learn to notice potential danger, prepare to move and maintain safer distance.
Improving the chance that you never need to fight is also part of self-defense.
Pay attention to the surroundings and recognize when something begins to change. Earlier information creates more options.
Avoid freezing and be ready to move. Readiness can include leaving, using your voice and calling for help.
Maintain enough space to make it harder for someone to touch, grab or attack you. Distance is one of the clearest first safety measures for children and adults.
Children also learn how to protect themselves physically when necessary, but defeating another child or adult is not the objective.
Training prioritizes recognizing trouble, leaving early, creating distance and getting help from a trusted adult. Physical responses are introduced safely and according to the child’s age when simply leaving is no longer possible.
What do you do when the odds are against you?
Training to improve your chances in difficult and unpredictable situations.HOW WE TRAIN
A memorized technique may work when a partner responds exactly as expected. A real person, however, resists, changes direction and reacts in ways that cannot always be predicted.
Functional Wing Chun combines forms and fundamental skills with progressive resistance and partner feedback. Students gradually learn how to adapt when the original solution is blocked or the situation changes.
Students are not immediately placed in overwhelming situations. We begin with one understandable problem, then gradually add speed, choices and uncertainty.
The partner does not simply allow the technique to work. Resistance is adjusted to create an appropriate challenge without sacrificing safety.
Rather than forcing one predetermined answer, students learn from the other person’s response, find a better position and continue toward the objective.
Children and adults do not train at the same intensity. Difficulty, speed and resistance are adjusted to the student’s age, size and experience so progress can be challenging and safe.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Founder of J’s Gym Functional Wing Chun
Jesper has studied Wing Chun for more than 30 years and founded J’s Gym in 2005. He teaches Functional Wing Chun as a practical method for dealing with resistance and unpredictable reactions, rather than simply reproducing predetermined techniques.
His wider martial arts experience includes karate, kickboxing, Muay Thai, aikido, grappling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and escrima/Kali.
In addition to teaching adults, Jesper previously taught Wing Chun to children through an extracurricular program at the British School in Tokyo.
He has experience adapting explanations, training methods and difficulty to children’s ages and levels of understanding while maintaining a safe learning environment.
NEAR YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE
J’s Gym welcomes sailors, civilian employees, contractors, spouses and families living in the Yokosuka area. Functional Wing Chun training is available in English, and no Japanese ability is required.
Private lessons are available now. We are also gathering interest in new children’s and adult group classes.
J’s Gym is an independent off-base martial arts school and is not affiliated with the U.S. Navy or CFAY.
LOCATION & SCHEDULE
Private lessons are available now. The kids’ and adult group schedules will be decided after we know how many people are interested and when they are available to train.
YOKOSUKA AREA
Lessons will be held at a private or suitable local training space in the Yokosuka area near these stations. The exact address and meeting information will be provided after a lesson or group session has been arranged.
Private lessons do not have a fixed weekly time. We will arrange a suitable day and time based on your availability.
Rather than choosing a schedule before knowing who can attend, we are first asking interested people which days and times would work for them.
Tell us which days and general times may work for you. We will use the responses to arrange the first introductory session and select a practical regular schedule.
START IN YOKOSUKA
Private lessons are available now. If you are interested in the planned kids’ or adult classes, you are welcome to register even if you do not yet know whether the eventual schedule will suit you.
Ask about a private lesson or register your interest in the planned kids’ and adult group classes.
Open the contact form →LINE is also available if you already use it. Questions are welcome in English or Japanese.
Open LINE →WHAT TO TELL US
Private lessons, kids’ class, adult class or a general question
Particularly important for children and teenagers
English, Japanese or either
An exact schedule is not necessary
Registering your interest is not a commitment. You can receive information about the introductory session before deciding whether to participate.
Inquiries are welcome in English or Japanese.
お問い合わせは日本語・英語、どちらでも大丈夫です。