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Wong Shun Leung – The Logic Behind Wing Chun

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One of the top Wing Chun fighters at Yip Man’s hong kong school, Sifu Leung taught Bruce Lee privately for one-and-a half-years and recalled “his Kung-Fu was not very good – he couldn’t fight.” Leung’s own introduction to the Wing Chun system was less than stellar – he challenged Yip Man to a trial by combat, convinced he could defeat him. When m a n easily won, Leung became a lifelong believer and disciple of the system that Bruce Lee would eventually turn into the most popular Kung-Fu style ever taught. Yip Man, seeing more in Lee than others, predicted to the incredulous Leung that, “this little kid will make Wing Chun famous.”

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A Passion for Wing Chun (Part 2)

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Master Wong Shun Leung is well known in the martial arts world. When he was younger he went out to try his Wing Chun against other styles of martial art. His intent was not to just fight, he wanted to see how Wing Chun. It is this search for perfection that has made him one [...]

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Wong Sifu – A Passion for Wing Chun (Part 1)

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All of the modern masters are direct descendants of Yip Man, meaning that there is a relative amount of cohesiveness between what one master practises and what another does. Wing Chun owes a great debt to Yip Man. Over the twenty or so years that he taught, many people studied with Yip Man, but few can claim to have inherited his skills. Wong Shun Leung is one of the few that can.

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What I Have Learned Through “Beimo”

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 22, 1995

The following article is a personal account of what Wing Chun master, sifu Wong Shun Leung feels, are the main lessons he has learned about combat through his experiences of “beimo” or skill comparison, a somewhat subtle way of naming the many full-on fights he had with practitioners of literally dozens of Chinese and other fighting systems during his 40 plus years as a Wing Chun devotee.

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Wong Shun Leung: Wing Chun’s Living Legend

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Hong Kong-based Wing Chun instructor, Wong Shun Leung, has been called many things by people in the martial arts world. England’s Fighter magazine called him: “..A communicator and teacher of Wing Chun par excellence;” Jessie Glover, the first American student of the late Bruce Lee, wrote in his book Bruce Lee’s Non-Classical Gung Fu, that Wong Shun Leung “..Is one of the greatest Wing Chun teachers in the world;” Bey Logan, former editor of the British martial arts magazine Combat, wrote that “…Wong Shun Leung is far more important as a Wing Chun teacher in his own right than just a figure in the life of Bruce Lee. He deserves better than to be in anyone’s shadow

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Bruce Lee’s Teacher (First UK Interview)

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Wong Shun Leung, Wing Chun Sifu, gives his first U.K. interview to Bey Logan. (Interpreter: Nino Bernardo) “I once took on ten guys carrying knives!” At these words, the seminar students all lean forward extra attentively. “And they never cut me once!” Twenty-five pairs of ears prick up simultaneously. What feat of kung fu did [...]

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Wong Shun Leung: A Wing Chun Phenomenon

Comments Off Posted by on September 8, 1983

“Self-defence is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary victim. “Whoever declares that any weapon manufactured today, whether it be a nuclear missile or a .33 special, is created for self-defence should look a little more closely at his own image in [...]

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