Self-defense Chung Kuo Chuan Chinese Boxing Street Combat Survival

Anyone who is interested in martial arts and self-defense these days and is looking for a corresponding school or club will quickly find what they are looking for. Almost every gym offers courses or training courses, the Internet is full of offers of all kinds. At the beginning of the seventies, it was much more difficult to find a school that specialized only in self-defense. Many of the systems known at that time were martial arts systems that focused on promoting physical and mental fitness, but usually had little to do with self-defense.
Dissatisfied with the state of affairs at the time, Bernd Rathey decided to take a new path. He had long devoted himself to the study of the then popular martial arts such as Judo, Karate and Taek Won Do, but finally came to the realization that all these arts emphasized the sporting aspects too much. The actual, original aspect of self-defense was often lost.
Bernd Rathey therefore decided to learn a system that still contained this origin. By studying the technical literature, which at that time was almost only available in English, he became aware of the styles of Chinese boxing, which were still almost completely unknown in Germany, and which contained everything he had been looking for all these years.
In search of competent teachers, Bernd Rathey joined Keith Kernspecht's Wing Tsun organization in 1977. Also, during this time he had the opportunity to train with Jesse Glover, one of the first and most combative students of the late Bruce Lee.
In 1978 Bernd Rathey leads the first Wing Tsun school in St. Wendel, in 1982 he also took over the leadership of the Neunkirch Wing Tsun group. In these groups, pure WT techniques were taught.
In 1979, after a long search, a suitable training room was found in an Ottweiler backyard in the Wilhelm Heinrich Straße. In this room, with little financial means but a lot of enthusiasm, the Chung Kuo Chuan School was founded. From then on the interest was directed to the Chinese systems like, Choy Lay Fut, Jeet Kune Do and Wing Chun as well as the at that time still new system of the full contact, which was at this time a true testing ground for techniques of all kinds. Only what could pass here is still included in the teaching program of the CKC today and forms the nucleus of the system.
In 1984 Bernd Rathey separated from the EWTO. Since he did not want to limit himself to one system and out of interest in the variety of martial arts from all over the world, he continued his studies of martial arts. So he learned e.g. Praying Mantis and knife fighting with Sifu Cheng Kwan.
In the old, former, warehouse in Ottweiler, the "Chung Kuo Chuan Chinese Boxing Street Combat Survival" system was developed over the course of several decades. A system that is ready to meet the high demands of today's world.
In the years 2005 and 2006 there were extreme setbacks by the death of Sihing Ralf Prünn (04.02.1959- 08.08.2005) and Sifu Bernd Rathey (04.10.1951- 27.02.2006).
Through this tragedy, the life's work of Bernd Rathey was about to disappear completely from the scene.
Günter Maas and Thomas Therre took over the management of the community of interest CKCCBSCS in Ottweiler.