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Forty years
in. Still
correcting.

Shifu Ean Willis founded New Path in 2002 to teach WingTsun the way he believes it should be taught — against real situations, for people who may genuinely need it.

Shifu Ean Willis, head instructor of New Path WingTsun Kung-Fu Sciences, teaching in the training hall
Head Instructor
Shifu Ean Willis

The instructor

Shifu Ean Willis has spent more than forty years in martial arts, and over twenty-five of those studying WingTsun specifically. What he teaches is not a survey of styles — it is one system, understood deeply, and delivered the way it was given to him.

He opened New Path WingTsun Kung-Fu Sciences in 2002. The reason was straightforward: he wanted to teach self-protection to people on the South Side of Chicago who might genuinely need it, without diluting the art to make it easier to sell.

Every student gets the same thing: the actual system, corrected in person, until it works under pressure — not a watered-down version of it.
“New Path Wingtsun Kung-fu was not intimidating. Shifu Ean is knowledgeable and patient. I felt like I've known him all my life.”
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How he teaches

Hands-on and corrected in the room. WingTsun cannot be learned from a video, because the entire art runs on feel — what your arms do when they meet pressure, at a speed too fast for the eye. That requires a person in front of you, adjusting your structure.

Classes stay small enough for that to actually happen. Nobody trains in the back of a room of forty people repeating a count.

More than fighting

New Path has taught mental, physical and spiritual health as part of the same curriculum since the beginning. That is not decoration around the self-defence — it is the point of keeping a practice for decades.

The goal was never to produce fighters. It was to produce people who do not have to be.

40+Years In Martial Arts
25+Years In WingTsun
2002New Path Founded
4.9★Student Rating

How students progress

There are no colour belts here. Progress is marked by the shirt — and a shirt is never sold, it is earned. Every student starts training in their own clothes. The uniform begins only once you have shown up, trained, and demonstrated real dedication.

Logo only — beginnerWhite Shirt
First promotion, earned through trainingWhite Shirt + Ribbon
Logo added to one sleeveWhite Shirt + One Arm
Logo on both sleevesWhite Shirt + Both Arms
Same ribbon-and-arm sequence begins againBlue Shirt
The actual promotion standard

Advancing is not about time served or performing a form alone in the air. A student promotes by demonstrating the first section — or first two to three sections — of Siu Nim Tau, the first form, while someone is actually throwing punches at them. Clear that, and you move from beginner to First Level Technician. The forms are not graded in isolation here; they are graded under pressure, which is the same standard the rest of the school trains to.

Lineage & Certification

Certified,
and it is
on paper.

Certificate from Ing Family Wing Chun certifying that Ean Willis completed instruction with Dr. Vincent Ing, dated June 1, 2002
Ing Family Wing Chun · issued to Ean Willis · signed Dr. Vincent Ing · June 1, 2002

Shifu Ean Willis trained under Dr. Vincent Ing and was certified through Ing Family Wing Chun on 1 June 2002, having completed the curriculum laid out by his instructor.

The hours are itemised on the document itself, and they are worth reading closely — because only two thirds of them are fighting.

150 hrs
Wing Chun gung fu instruction
25 hrs
Focused meditation
25 hrs
Instruction on mental and physical control
10 hrs
Conflict resolution
10 hrs
Breathing control
220 Certified hours of instruction
Ing Family Wing Chun · 2002
Certified June 2002 — New Path opened the same year

Seventy of those hours are meditation, breathing, mental and physical control, and conflict resolution. That ratio is not an accident, and it is the clearest answer to what this school actually teaches: the fighting is the smaller part of it. The art itself is built the same way.

The path here

40+ yrs
A life in martial arts

Four decades of training across a martial arts life — long enough to have seen styles come into fashion, get diluted for the market, and go out again.

25+ yrs
WingTsun specifically

More than twenty-five of those years devoted to this one system. Not a survey of styles — one art, understood deeply enough to teach it without simplifying it.

2002
New Path opens

Founded to teach self-protection on the South Side of Chicago to people who might genuinely need it, without watering the art down to make it easier to sell.

Today
Don Nash Community Center

Three days a week on East 71st Street in South Shore, teaching adults, kids and one-on-one students — still correcting structure by hand, in the room.

The school today

New Path trains three days a week at the Don Nash Community Center on East 71st Street in South Shore. Programs run for adults, kids and teens, and one-on-one students.

If you want to understand what is actually being taught before you come in, start with what WingTsun is.

Questions

Common questions

Who teaches at New Path WingTsun?

All classes are taught by Shifu Ean Willis, who has more than forty years in martial arts and over twenty-five years studying WingTsun specifically. He founded New Path in 2002.

How long has the school been open?

New Path WingTsun Kung-Fu Sciences has been teaching in Chicago since 2002.

Where does the school train now?

Classes are held at the Don Nash Community Center, 1833 E 71st Street, in the South Shore neighbourhood of Chicago.

Start Here

Ten dollars.
One class.

Come train, see the room and the instruction for yourself, then decide. No monthly commitment attached to the introductory course.

(872) 348-2444
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Don Nash Community Center · 1833 E 71st St · Chicago, IL 60649
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