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Victor Kan (簡華捷, Kan Wah-chit; born 1941) is a student of the late Ip Man [1] and began his Wing Chun instruction at the age of 13 years in Hong Kong. [2] He was with Yip Man for 7 years and in that time during which he became known as the 'King of Chi Sao' or 'The Untouchable'. [3]
Eric Anthony Oram (born October 13, 1968) is an American Wing Chun Kung Fu practitioner and fight choreographer who introduced a new way of filming fight scenes in the film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in which the actors fought with real strikes and attacks, which were then featured in slow motion at 500 frames per second in the final movie. [4]
Wing Chun or Yong Chun (traditional Chinese: 詠春; simplified Chinese: 咏春, lit. "singing spring") [7] is a concept-based martial art, a form of Southern Chinese kung fu, and a close-quarters system of self-defense.
William Kwok is the elder son of Kwok Yuen-wah, a physical education professor who introduced Wing Chun and movement science to Kwok. [7] [8] Prior to learning Practical Wing Chun from Wan Kam-leung, Kwok trained in various martial arts systems including traditional Taekwondo, under Kim Suk-jun, a disciple of Choi Hong-hi. [1]
William Cheung or Cheung Cheuk-hing (張卓慶, pinyin: Zhāng Zhuóqìng) [4] (born 10 October 1940) is a Hong Kong Wing Chun kung fu practitioner and the Grandmaster of his lineage, Traditional Wing Chun (TWC). He is also the head of the Global Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu Association (GTWCKFA), the sanctioning body of TWC. [5]
James eventually ended up becoming a disciple of Henry Leung, of the Buddha Hand Wing Chun system. [3] Sifu Leung was the only recognized grand-master of the Fut Sao Wing Chun system in the West. [4] [5] After many years or practice and following Leung's death in 2011, Cama became the sole inheritor of this unique system outside of China.
Wan worked to improve his Wing Chun, branching from his knowledge of Wong Shun-leung's style. In 1994, with Wong's consent, the style he had developed was named "Practical Wing Chun". Sifu Wan promised not to teach this style until after Wong's death, out of respect for the Wong died in 1997, and Wan subsequently opened a school for Practical ...
Moy Yat (梅逸) (June 28, 1938 – January 23, 2001) was a Hong Kong martial artist, painter, seal maker, teacher and author. He was a student of the legendary Wing Chun Kung-Fu teacher Yip Man [1] [2] [3] (also romanized as Ip Man) from 1957 until Ip Man's death in 1972.