About Me
How my wing chun journey began
My Grandfather and I back in the 90s in Brooklyn.
My first time coming in contact with Wing Chun was when I was about 3 years old. My parents and my grandparents are immigrants from Hong Kong, so much of my early life in Brooklyn was spent in a very traditional, Hong Kong household. There was no English spoken at the house, we ate Chinese food, listened to Chinese music, and watched Chinese movies. My sister and I would spend several hours watching Kung Fu movies daily. Many of the VHS tapes eventually became damaged due to how feverishly we would rewatch them. To this day, my favorite of all time is The Prodigal Son (1981) that starred Yuen Biao, Lam Ching Ying, and Sammo Hung. This was my first time witnessing Wing Chun, and I was too young to even know what martial art styles were being demonstrated, but I was enamored with the movement. Being born in 1994, I was already living in a Post-Bruce Lee era, so his influence and his relationship with Wing Chun was part of a distant past that I did not know about.

Scene from The Prodigal Son (1981) where Sammo Hung shows Yuen Biao why Wing Chun doesn't use high kicks.
Years later, after the global phenomenon of Ip Man (2008), I decided it was finally time for me to learn it. I came into the world of Wing Chun because the world of movies brought me in. I stayed because my 師傅 (master/teacher) changed my life forever.