How Wong Shun Leung changed my Wing Chun 

Awesome story - Wong was very gracious to teach you as a kid for that day, and he really planted those seeds in that one day!

I am not a Wing Chun student, but what you said I can relate to. When you meet someone of that calibre, it opens up an entirely new world.

I trained for several years in about 5 WC lineages ....then in 1995 I met Master WSL.....and he tore away what I thought knew....I have studied his WAY OF ever since here in the UK and in Hong Kong ....he defined Wing Chun in so many ways RIP Sigung .....Great videos by the way ...logical and methodical ....refreshing to watch ..thanks for sharing practicality in motion😊

Adam you are by far my favorite Wing Chun youtuber. I trained in Wing Chun 30 years ago with a couple of Instructors here in Canton Ohio area. I always had dreams of training with someone from WSL lineage but life got past me alot faster than I anticipated. I am 50 this year and I enjoy your content so much thank you for sharing all your knowledge and skills with us. I firmly believe that Sifu WSL was by far the best that ever walked the earth at Wing Chun. Anyone stupid enough to physically challenge him back in those days I'm sure learned the lesson in 10 seconds or less. Thank you so very much.

NICE STORY! I MET HIS STUDENT WAN KAM IN HONG KONG. I WENT TO HIS SCHOOL. HE DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH, BUT HE SPENT TIME TEACHING ME PRINCIPLES OF WING CHUN, BY DRAWING A SKETCH ON A PIECE OF PAPER AND THRU A TRANSLATOR. HE WAS VERY KIND TO ME AND I WAS IMPRESSED WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE. I HUNG OUT FOR 3 NIGHTS, BUT THEN I HAD TO CATCH MY FLIGHT HOME.

Good Sharing Adam. I never had the opportunity to meet Wong Shun Leung, but I met Gary Lam one of his students and meeting him changed everything for me, after 18yrs in TWC Wing chun and thinking I knew what WC was, after 1 Day with Gary I had to go back to square one lol, its a completely different system than most of the WC out there, a higher quality system I would say...since then I've researched other students of WSL, Philip Bayer and such is also different and high quality, but overall the idea of lat sau jik chung, developing structure and seeing it as a "skill set" rather than a fighting art is the big differences

Great story! So inspiring!

Thank you Adam, great story.

As if I needed any more convincing of Adam's quality as a wing chun practitioner and sharer of the art - The way he categorically denies a lineage and explains things so simply and directly (despite the complexity of the concepts) marks him out as a genuine master. Way to side step the interminable politics of wing chun lineages, and yet be able to absorb the masters teachings. Thank you for sharing. Reminds me of the way Nino Bernardo speaks of Wong.

Greetings Sifu Chan, thank you for sharing that story. My 1st contact with WC I complained on stance work and was told STFU and Train. We laughed about it and years later found out it works.

Like a my Sifu Franco Regalzi, thanx for your testimoniance Sifu Adam Chan

Great Story ! Not all teachers are great teacher's. Great teacher's want to make sure their students understand and comprehend everything they are being taught. And will patiently take the time necessary so the student understands. This applies to all subject matter as well as Wing Chun. I can count on one hand all the teacher's in my lifetime that took the time so I could learn what they were teaching me. But the door swings both ways and the student has to be eager to learn and want to understand what the teacher is explaining. Keep up your great videos !

Awesome story....

One disadvantage about kicking your opponent is that should he successfully block you with his arm/hand (very wing chun) you would be thrown off balance. Unless you can recover quickly enough as if the balance had not been disturbed - and then it becomes a lesser disadvantage. As soon as you kick one leg, you would be supported with only one leg. We are symmetrically supported by 2 legs. Hence Bruce does the flying kick to take down the opponent. Or he will kick low, so the opponent cannot block the low kick, and at the same time the opponent is disturbed by that kick. Chuck Norris said that he introduced the concept of kicking high to the body, popular in karate, and others arts, to Bruce Lee. But the kick would have to be very fast to readily reestablish stance, and very powerful to hopefully disable the opponent with the force close to the force of a flying kick. And it looks like Bruce had refined his attacking high kicks to the point of being as effective as his flying kicks. In an interview (in hong kong TVB some years ago) Wong Shun Leung was joking about how naughty Bruce Lee was in that he had tricked his classmates into not attending the lessons by telling them that Teacher Wong "is not in the classroom that day." Bruce Lee according to the interview with Wong had asked Teacher Wong if he can teach him only, and no one else. Teacher Wong thought that it seemed a bit selfish, and declined. That was why Bruce had to trick his classmates, so that he can have Teacher Wong all to himself for the lesson. I understand why he did that, since you said how much you had learned in just a few hours alone with Wong Shun Leung. Therefore, the verdict is that Bruce was not all that naughty or selfish. Perhaps just a little...like everyone else. He was indeed intelligent.

Would to hear more about this - Wong Shung Leung - sorry if I misspelled

Good story and statements

Many here in Holland had the same experience as you did Adam. In 1974 the first Wing-Chun Kung Fu association was founded by a student of Wong Kiu. Wong Kiu I believe was one of the first five students of Ip man in Hong Kong, mostly did private lessons and actually had a hand in setting up and reffereeing the beimo matches. So this association spend many years under the guidance of Wong Kiu before meeting Wong Shun Leung in 1994/1995. They felt they had to re-learn everything they were taught and many left the association to join the association of Phillip Bayer. The founder of the association knew he had to also adapt and sent his son, who'd been training Wing-Chun since the age of six to learn the WSL method from phillip bayer and later on from Barry Lee, Wong Shun Leungs best student. My teacher always says he regards Barry Lee as his true teacher. With Barry as his teacher he had acces to the best Wing-Chun out there, but don't be mistaken. Barry's greatness came through persistence, hard work and the strong focus on basics. There's an article written about Barry Lee called "The Machine", which gives an impression of his training. The ability to explain every single detail and nuance of the forms is a key feature of Barry Lee Ving-Tsun. I've heard Bill Dowding say it would take Barry 5 to 6 hours to initially explain Siu Lim Tao. But as great as this acces to such a source is, it also has it downsides. This lineage is very different from most in the way they approach training, you are not allowed to progress further if not deemed ready. You could be an instructor in the school I train at and spend a whole day just punching the bag whenever you train with the more senior guys under Barry.

Adam, I hope you get to meet one of Wong Shun Leung's senior students: Wan Kam Leung. He was with Wong Shun Leung when he back in 1973 did that screen test with Bruce Lee. I am kind of proud to say that I was one-inch punched by Wan Kam Leung a few years ago while holding a small focus mitt and I flew backwards - with a very unique experience of the force going backwards and then changing downwards. His Wing Chun structure is very unique compared to the "mainstream" Wing Chun.

I happen to train under WSL lineage with David Paterson for a while..

This is gold

It's no joke he, Grandmaster (yes my lineage) is the king of talking hands, his wing Chun is called Vingtsunology, in Chinese called 詠春拳學, Ving tsun kuen hok Cantonese, which means more than just a martial art style, it s beyond fighting, philosophy, science. When naming it 學, it's more of an academic subject. And he also picked up lots of fights to verify wing Chun techniques, and concepts, that s how the king of talking hands come

Great story. It is always an honor to meet someone from the inner circle of Ip Man's students. Have you ever met Mr. Duncan Leung? If not, I would strongly recommend that.

That was cool. I do almost all GARY LAM WING CHUN. That is most definitely the closest thing you can get to #wongsheungleung because Gary personifies the HONK KONG FIGHTING STYLE and CHI SAO being the spirit and soul, is most important. How does your stuff face off against other SKILLED FIGHTERS. 😉💥☮️that brand, and lineage is the best. 1 day is enough for me. 1. WE TAKE 2. WE HIT 3. WE LET GO 4. WE PUSH 5. WE TAN 6. WE PAK 7. WE BONG 8. WE COVER 8. WE QUAN. To use. Not to copy. ☺️💥

I toooold you guys. Stay tuned, you never know what stories this guy will share!

Quick question Mr. Chen. Does your Sil Lim Tau Ebook go over some of these details?

3 wing chun masters. W c m 1 had a problem with w c m 2 who was a bully. W c m 1 asked w c m 3 to check w c m 2. W c m 3 clearly changed w c m 2 mind on picking on w c m 1. W c m 3 is my Sigung. My Sifu always said. You are only as good as your Sifu. My Sibaak or uncle was a student of w c m 1. He had a great center. Firm hands. Clean forms. But when it came to footwork, off hand fighting, or any type of sparring. It was a non factor. When students didn't follow the chi sao recipe he would get upset. His routine was keep center, lop sao, or tan da. Nothing more. He never wanted to learn my Sifu's way and his stubbornness was his downfall. My Sifu always emphasized the importance of footwork. On RU-vid there is a video of my Sigung, Wong Shun Leung, and Chu Shong Tin doing Siu Lim Tao. My Wing Chun is Jiu Wan lineage. But we have very close ties with the Yip Man Tong.

Out of all of WSL students, people choose Phillip Bayer or Gary Lam. I choose Philip Ng. His chi sao in my opinion is the most straightforward, fast, and no wasted movements.

It’s cool because Wong is portrayed in Ip Man 2

Sifu, how can i learn from you

Wong Shun Leung is my grandmaster。My master is Chiu Hok Yin

Adam hi" I've been watching your videos quite a while . I've also been recently watching a practitioner in France performing pakmei. His strikes are lighting fast. " this system looks brutal and it's traditional. What is your take on this system compare to wingchun. Thank you

I know you can't learn kung fu from a book but didn't Wong Shun Leung write a book or someone wrote a book about him years ago?

Go learn from Sifu Gary Lam. He taught at Wong Shun Leung school for almost a decade. He was a student of Wong Shun Leung and he teaches in Los Angeles. He teaches “no bullshit” wing chun. I guarantee you will not regret it except that you didn’t know sooner.

Wing chun gets a bad rap. But im.sure if you know it properly it is great

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This is one of the major flaws of traditional martial arts, is not enough sparring imo. Imagine if you have 6 years of training in boxing, you would be a pretty good fighter at that point. But with 6 years training in wc, Adam still seemed like he wasn't a competant fighter.

We need movies of him not Ip Man, considering he was Bruce Lee's true teacher.

So Master Wong changed your kung fu because he showed you a lot of cool stuff. Well how about showing us some of it...