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Kung Fu in Slough History
Wing
Tsun Kung-Fu was founded by a Buddhist nun named Ng Mui more
than 250 years ago in China.
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Ng
Mui designed the new system to take advantage of the weak points
of traditional Shaolin Kung-Fu. She developed this new system
as an antithesis to the theories of Shaolin Kung-Fu. Instead of
relying on brute strength, Ng Mui’s system would borrow
the force of the enemy or “give way” to it. Everything
from posture, punching, kicking and stance stepping methods were
completely redeveloped.
She passed
this new system to a woman called Yim Wing Tsun. Wing Tsun later
taught it to her husband, Leung Bok Chau. For the honor of his
beloved wife, Leung named it WingTsun Kuen (”Kuen”
denotes fist or fist-fighting art).
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Wing Tsun Kung-Fu was founded by a Buddhist nun named
Ng Mui more than 250 years ago in China.
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| Leung
Bok Chau later passed on his wife’s style to Wong Wah Bo.
Wong was a member of an opera troupe living on a Red Junk (boat).
A fellow opera player named Leung Yee Tai was a master of pole fighting
techniques. The two were good friends and exchanged their knowledge
with each other. Thus, Leung Yee Tai learned WingTsun and Wong Wah
Bo learned the pole fighting techniques. From this point on, pole
fighting techniques have been a part of the Wing Tsun forms which
already included 3 empty hand forms, wooden dummy techniques and
very advanced double knife techniques. |
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Wing Tsun Kung-Fu was founded by a Buddhist nun named
Ng Mui more than 250 years ago in China.
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| Many
years later, Chan Wah Shun would accept his final disciple, a young
boy named Yip Man. Yip Man trained very hard under his own Si-Fu
(father-teacher) until the old Chan passed away. Before Chan died,
he made his eldest student Ng Chung So promise to teach the boy
further in Wing Tsun. Yip Man spent a few more years learning from
his Si-Hing or elder kung-fu brother.
Years later
while studying English in Hong Kong, Yip Man would have the chance
to continue his WingTsun studies under Leung Bik, a son of Doctor
Leung Jan. It was at this time that Yip Man learned the innermost
secrets of Wing Tsun and its theory. Yip Man returned to Fatshan
after completing his studies in Hong Kong. He began to teach a
couple of students, more out of fun than of financial need. It
wasn’t until the Communist take over in 1949, when Yip Man
fled back to Hong Kong, that he began to teach Wing Tsun professionally.
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Wing Tsun Kung-Fu was founded by a Buddhist nun named
Ng Mui more than 250 years ago in China.
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| Poor health
forced Grandmaster Yip Man to retire from teaching WingTsun. He
handed over the teaching to his students. In Chinese tradition one
would say that Grandmaster Yip Man had “closed his door”.
Grandmaster Yip Man accepted the young Leung Ting as his last student
and taught him the most advanced techniques of Wing Tsun. Leung
Ting became the first of Grandmaster Yip Man’s students to
heavily promote WingTsun in Hong Kong through magazines, newspaper
articles and even TV. Leung Ting’s school become so full that
the Hong Kong press called him the “millionaire kung-fu instructor”!
During the last few years of Grandmaster Yip Man’s life, Leung
Ting helped Wing Tsun come more into the public eye. With the blessing
of Grandmaster Yip Man, Leung Ting became the only one of his students
to publish an article about the most advanced technique in Wing
Tsun, the double knives.
After the
death of Grandmaster Yip Man in 1972, Leung Ting began his work
to further develop, upgrade and modernize the art of WingTsun.
In 1973, Leung Ting exclusively adopted the name “WingTsun”
to distinguish his system from the other students of Grandmaster
Yip Man who usually spell it as “Wing Chun” or “Ving
Tsun”.
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