Võ-Đạo-Việt-Nam

- traditional Vietnamese martial arts -<

Võ stands for the physical part of this art. It means everything you (can) do with your body.

Đạo stands for the mental part. Đạo means the way or the path and in this context the way or path of life.

Việt is the name of the people living in Vietnam.

Nam means south and is the name of the land.

Võ-Đạo-Việt-Nam (VDVN) was founded in the 1920s. It is a Kung Fu school, which emerged as a synthesis of different martial arts, some of them thousands of years old.

VDVN can be practised by anybody old or young, male or female, strong or not so strong. Our training doesn’t lay great stress on fast to learn or easy to apply self-defence techniques. Rather on basic- and partner techniques as well as on movements and forms. Coordination, stretching, condition as well as physical power are equivalent elements of the training. None of them plays a superior role.

Important for an effective training are also meditation and so called “Khi-Công-Exercises” with which we try to create harmony between body, spirit and nature.

Our group in ESTEC exists since October 2001.

The goals of education of Võ-Đạo-Việt-Nam

Võ-Thuật-Việt-Nam (art of techniques)

Exercise techniques (exercises for the mind, body-control), fighting techniques (defence, attack, re-attack, variation of forms and techniques), 18 traditional weapons as well as other non-traditional weapons

Võ-Học-Việt-Nam (theory and philosophy)

VÕ-ĐẠO Theory, VÕ-ĐẠO Philosophy, DỊCH-HỌC (transformation theory and philosophy on THÁI-CỰC (TAI-CHI) and ÂM-DƯƠNG (YIN-YANG), ĐẠO-theory and ĐẠO-philosophy

Y-Học-Việt-Nam (medicine / knowledge of medical science)

Herbs, Acupressure, Acupuncture, Psychology