Steve Crider's WING CHUN KUNG FU School of Self Defense: Waco, Texas

Self Defense Instruction in WACO TEXAS. Since 1988, I have studied over 17 years formal instruction in 3 different lineages of the art.

Update: March 16, 2020

This is "Steve Crider Wing Chun"...that is to say, I am teaching "WING CHUN" as I have come to understand it after 33 years of both formal and informal study of the art. I have had other brief encounters not named, which have influenced my ideas on the art including Seminars and personal private encounters. During my years of formal study, there was a 4 year period i

n which:
I trained 6 to 8 hours a day, every day, 5 to 6 days a week for 3 of those 4 years, with 4 hours a day 5 days a week (for 2 years) under supervised formal instruction, 2 hours each morning, and 2 hours each evening. For the first year of those 4 years, I trained 6 days a week under formal instruction. Then for all 4 years in that timeframe, I trained an additional 2 to 4 hours a day on my own, and the only reason I did not train 6 to 8 hours a day for all 4 years, was due the 2nd year, I was down for 9 months due a broken leg and following after... a knee surgery. Even in that second year, I trained 2 to 4 hours a day, with a broken leg, privately on my own. I threw over 1 million punches that year and counted each and every one, I have them logged on a daily basis into my personal notes and recorded so that I can tell you the exact number of punches I threw on any given day in that timeframe. When my instructor offered to let me come and watch classes while my leg was in recovery, for 6 months, I was there, EVERY CLASS...2 hours each morning, 2 hours each evening, 5 days a week...and I didn't bu****it. I took notes, I paid attention to every single thing that was taught, and everything that took place on the floor. I am one tough son of a B*tch, and I did not start out that way, I was made that way by my first instructor in the art who instilled into me a SPIRIT OF TENACITY that simply does not quit. I strive to learn at least one thing of value from everyone I come in contact with, and I have carried with me at least one thing of value from all my instructors in the art, and in some cases, MANY THINGS of Value. My wife, a public school teacher of over 20 years, with a Masters Degree in Secondary Education, has taught me that the goal of any good teacher, is two fold, firstly...not to give the student "ALL THE ANSWERS" but rather to give the student the tools to find "THE ANSWERS" for themselves, and in such, by empowering the student in this fashion, the ultimate goal of any good teacher is to create in their students, LIFE LONG LEARNERS! Long ago, I decided to commit my path in life to be a life long student in the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu. My goal in teaching, is also two fold, to instill the same love and passion for this great art I have, into the lives of others, and to illustrate that passion by example...noting I have been personally empowered by the ART OF WING CHUN KUNG FU, and by my many teachers, peers and the practitioners I have met in the same over the years. I have heard numerous meanings as to the actual definition of the name "WING CHUN"...my favorite by far, remains that which I was first taught to be the meaning of the name, and that thing by very definition which the art has always meant to me, the very thing I long to most accomplish by teaching, is to impart to others...

"HOPE FOR THE FUTURE".

-Sifu Steve Crider Benjamin

09/08/2021

I will be closing the kung fu school for this week's classes.

Sunday night at home I suddenly started getting sick and it started with back pain and general over all sickness and it quickly escalated to heavy mucus which made breathing labored. Monday morning I went to go get tested but all of the testing sites were closed for Labor Day, and the announcement on the County website said they would be closed on Tuesday as well. I started taking a regiment of zinc, vitamins D3, vitamin C, and some other alternative remedies to address the situation until I can get tested this morning and Monday afternoon I did have about 3 hours when I got better and to such an extent that I thought I would be all the way recovered from whatever this is by yesterday morning. That was not the case... yesterday morning I woke up feeling pretty much like I did Sunday night without the breathing issues, and it got progressively worse through the afternoon.

Last night it got really bad and I had serious trouble breathing, heavy mucus in my lungs which thankfully subsided and I can breathe easy now. I'm still taking the regimen of supplements to address this until I know for sure what this is. It may just be a really bad flu.

I did go and get tested this afternoon but they said it will be 48 to 72 hours before they send me the results as to whether or not I have covered or not in the meantime it will be no class tonight or tomorrow. I will update everyone once I have the results and I will make up any classes owed to anyone.

08/29/2021

08/28/2021

Steve Crider's Wing Chun Kung Fu School of Self Defense Will be giving a Knife Throwing Seminar in October, 2021. Open to the public and discounts for actively enrolled students. For those who are not active students but wish to attend, you may contact for registration to:
[email protected]

Please place "Oct Seminar Registration" in the subject Heading.
And in the body of your email please include contact information including a valid phone number and email address.

Seminar will be 8 hours with a 60-90 min break for lunch at the Summer Palace Buffet in Hewitt Texas. Participants will be responsible for the cost of their own meals. Cost of Meal is $13.99 + Tax and Drinks are $2.59 + Tax, please bring enough to leave at least a modest tip.

-SiFu Crider

08/25/2021

Attention Students:

SiFu Crider observes The Levitical Sabbatical Calendar. As such, The Timeframe of the Biblical Month of Tishri (Late August/Early October) the school operates on an altered schedule.

Also "Mondays" will be added to the regular weekly public classes so beginning in October, public classes will be Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 7-9pm with doors opening at 6:30pm for those who wish to come early. Private Classes will remain on Sundays.

The Knife Throwing Seminar will be held on a Sunday in Early October (Date to be determined and announced soon.)

Attached is the Alternate Schedule for September 2021.

-SiFu Crider

08/16/2021

"To Master Ten thousand things... Master One."
-Musashi

08/12/2021

08/10/2021

If you think this has nothing to do with self defense...
You are already embracing the Delusion.

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Telephone

(254) 349-8222

Website

http://www.wingchunwacotx.com/

Address

4400 S. University Parks Drive
Waco, TX
76706

Opening Hours

Monday	7pm - 9pm
Tuesday	7pm - 9pm
Wednesday	7pm - 9pm
Thursday	7pm - 9pm
Sunday	4pm - 6pm