Letter from Grand Master: Main conception
Fri - 02/15/2008 20:13
Dear Disciplines,
Be a Martial Arts Group with design to contributory to build good human being, VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO esteem is to educate adolescent young generations to both spirit and body for working more useful for family, society, just not aim for champions about kickboxing but poorly about spiritual life.
Implement the Great Grand Master willpower: Must advance according to era, and in order to meet the requirement of international communication, VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO need refractory about antagonism examination formality, but have to place primary on fellow-student friendship.
Consequently, sparring must instance maximum secure. Use sect's specificity poses handspike. Be noticeably, clearly, accuracy.
Even to follow international integration persistence: Method Martial arts sports exaltation, VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO still strongly important come in depth to affix glad action, entertainingly of daily life conditions to enter unworldly supreme spirit practice event.
VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO from learned techniques elevated to become spiritual nutritive art to soul in order to rounded human being to Chan-Thien-My life, and not addiction triumph, consider win as ultimate objective.
In antagonism sparring, discipline will be with all the best probative talented that elaboration exercised and let everybody discernible martial arts quintessence of VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO, but without slaughter, aggressiveness impair brethren, fellow-student.
When honor, personally affronted existence right, threatens, VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO discipline is permitted to use Martial arts for self-defense.
And it is also entitled to use martial arts when wisdom was crushed, when feebleness is compelled, but only intervention right time, right place and with normal level, always master the feelings, of own feeling, to refrain from bellicose, pretentious of the young age with spirit out vied not arrogant, disastrous not moral.
Quintessence of VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO is not only in poses handspike, method of Martial arts, but also in Martial arts spirit, in strong way but easy, preciseness at enthusiasm: manful but competition manner, remorselessly but neither daring spend.
In case need to use martial arts for self-defense or to protect wisdom was crushed, plead in behalf of weakness, must know contender power so that handspike discharge meet endurance range, not to excessively peril of danger to them but suffice them to be afraid to profligate. That is main conception use force: VOVINAM VIỆT VÕ ÐẠO
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