Great Grandmaster William Cheung learned under the founder of wing chun Yip Man he knows his martial arts very well i heard.
Great Grandmaster William Cheung learned under the founder of wing chun Yip Man he knows his martial arts very well i heard.
"Great Grandmaster William Cheung learned under the founder of wing chun Yip Man he knows his martial arts very well i heard."
Now he's a GREAT grandmaster?
Wing Chun in many senses has morphed into this convoluted pile of crap over the years for many reasons.
Kung Fu is good for you.
That was one incident and not even a fight. It was a sneak attack from the side. Done by a guy who trained just for the sneak attack who also had more guys ready to jump in in case he lost. W.m Cheung had received death threats and knew that if he won he could be killed. And even if it was a fair square off fight and William Cheung lost that doesn't mean he was never a good fighter. Chuck Liddel has lost "fair" fights. Does that mean he's no good? btw, Cheung wasn't even hurt and continued the seminar afterwards.
Sorry, coming to this thread late, just thought I'd add that back in the day, as I remember, William Cheung and the Lacy's had a lot of competitive spirit that came out on the CLF side. I have no doubt he spent a good bit of effort trying to figure out how to fight those guys properly. No idea how to judge the success though.
Guangzhou Pak Mei Kung Fu School, Sydney Australia,
Sifu Leung, Yuk Seng
Established 1989, Glebe Australia
I just happened to find this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmXhjmov2ro
i respect you phil and if you are a reflectionof your master then he must be a good man,and i know you wont take this personally but i get fed up with people making challanges and then making excuses when they lose, rightly or wrongly cheung issued a challange and lost the only match we have any recorded history of, at least liddel has won as well as lost matches about all we can find of cheung are demo clips where he is working against iffy techniques
The TCMA world is full of people talking about each other as great fighters, I remember that tai chi v white crane fight for charity from the 60’s where people were worried they might really hurt or even kill each other because of their skill levels…didn’t quite turn out like that did it
It doesn’t change the fact that the only fight we have of cheung in action looked bad on both the guys taking part, and the clips on this thread and those posted on other threads do not in any way support his claims to be a great fighter, to be fair there are no clips supporting Emin’s assertions to be the great wing chun fighter either
This CLF master could be right, he might be right, but let me ask you this if you wanted to judge the skill level of someone you didn’t know what would you put the most weight behind? Actual footage of them in action on video or word of mouth?