In a sleepy little town , hidden in a valley
between three mountains , where everyone know everyone else and there are no
secretes among people lives very special man . On the first glance he is no
different than anyone else , he goes to work , sometimes plays guitar , he
likes to go out for a drink with friends , enjoys good movie , domestic food
and Sunday sleep . But he has a secret , every day to a small group of
carefully selected students he teaches kung fu.
This looks like a plot from Hong Kong kung
fu movie bit it is a true story . In small town in western Serbia , Kosjeric ,
lives and works one of the best Wing Tsun masters in Europe. Although he
learned his art from one of the first kung fu practitioners and later masters
of WT in Europe, Slavko Truntic he never used his name to hide behind it. His
art is his own and he always put his own name and his own “face’” behind his
Wing Tsun . He is one of the few people I’ve met who truly understood the art
and made it his own . He doesn’t like term “master” but he is one , a true
master of the art . He does not follow the system blindly, he is no slave to
the form, he is not afraid to experiment ,to test , to try different ways and
approaches and eventually to adapt the art to him self . He is practicing Wing
Tsun for almost three decades . For all these time he had a handful of
carefully selected students. At one point he had a public school and that school
was the most successful Wing Chun school in Serbia with 120 studens. Other Wing
Chun “masters” couldn’t stand this and gave their best to sabotage his school.
Finally , using political connections with ministry of sports they manage to
close his school. He retreat from public scene and continued his work quietly with
couple of relatives and close friends . He chooses his students carefully and
for a good reason. His students are treated like his own family , literary. To
them. He is not only a teacher , he is a father, an older brother , protector ,
advisor , anything that is required at particular moment . His students found
not only a Wing Tsun teacher but someone who is there for them in moments of
deepest crisis , when everyone else gave up on them. When students are unhappy
,depressed , have love problems , family issues , couldn’t find a job , needed
advice about something , they all turned to their teacher .He does not teach
only wing tsun , he teaches his students how to become good, honest ,
hardworking people , how to be respected members of the community and how to
set an example for others . Moral and ethics comes before everything. And
before that comes deepest respect to humanity and care about nature and all
living things .
He also teaches survival and military
tactical training . His training sessions are extremely hard ,sometimes
ruthless , but there is no other way to teach real thing . And all this time ,
almost 30 years , he stayed quiet , keeping low profile . Modest , humble,
quiet , but fierce fighter , a true warrior ,wise , caring person , it might
look like a fictional character ,but he is true , one few true masters of the
art , my friend and kung fu brother, Ivan Stefanovic