Complete Wing Chun:
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Mark V. Wiley, martial
arts Executive Editor of Charles E. Tuttle Co. for recognizing and believing
in the potential of this work. Eddie Chong sifu of Pan Nam Wing Chun for
sharing his knowledge, and John Murphy & Garrett Gee sifu of Hung Suen
Wing Chun for contributing their chapter. Also, many thanks to Jane Hallander
for her photographs of Pao Fa Lien Wing Chun, Reiner Klimke & Andreas
Hoffman sifu for their notes on Jee Shim Wing Chun (Chi Sim Ving Tsun),
Ilya Olshanetsky and Andrej Moskwitin for their notes on Vietnamese Wing
Chun (Vinh Xuan), and Y.C. Yeung for his kind help on several of the branches
of Wing Chun. The work would have been considerably lessened without their
generous contributions. Thanks as well to the Internet Wing Chun Mailing
List, created and maintained by Marty Goldberg and Robert Gillespie, an
outstanding forum for exchange among Wing Chun practitioners (information
on the WCML can be obtained [via http://www.wingchunkuen.com/wcml]).
Robert Chu would like to thank Hawkins Cheung, Kwan Jong-Yuen,
William Cheung, Koo Sang, Augustine Fong, Eddie Chong, Eric Kwai, Jeung
Ma-Chut, Gary Lam, Johnny Wong, Allan Fong, Henry Moy and the MoyYat Wing
Chun family for sharing their Wing Chun. Special thanks to his students
and good friends who have taught him as much as he taught them, James
Ng, Stephen Eng, Anant Tinaphong, all my New York students, and all his
Los Angeles students, especially, Stephen Wenger, Patrick Lee, Dimitris
Horiatis, Robert Ting, David Young, and Peter Kwong who have supported
him over the years. Also special thanks to Sensei Robert S. Weinberg for
starting him on the path to martial arts and his brothers, Charles, Johnson
and Douglas Chu, who kept him inspired. Also special thanks to his two
partners and sworn brothers, Rene Ritchie for sharing with him his Yuen
Kay-San Wing Chun kuen, and to Ng Yew-Mun, who shared his Nanyang Wing
Chun kuen on his brief visit. It was their urging that led him to the
completion of this project despite his dislike for rewrites. He couldn't
ask for two better partners. Most of all, special thanks to his beautiful
wife, Pauline, for putting up with mistress Wing Chun for all these years.
Y. Wu would like to thank and express his appreciation
for the years of friendship and knowledge from Victor Leow of the Intelligent
Combative Arts Network Australasia, his sworn senior Kung Fu brother,
mentor and above all teacher (and author of "Virtual, Intelligent, Kinaesthetically
Oriented Geometric Articulations (VIKOGA): Authenticated Mindwill Wing
Chun Gungfu"). Thanks also go to Big Brother Robert Chu for generously
sharing his knowledge of Wing Chun kuen; Brother Rene Ritchie for his
Yuen Kay San Wing Chun kuen and vast knowledge of the history of Wing
Chun kuen; sifu Hawkins Cheung for his entertaining and highly knowledgeable
views on the application of Yip Man Wing Chun kuen and the Wing Chun baat
jaam do, and Gary Lam for his insights into the late Wong Shun Leung's
methods. Special thanks to Yap Boh Lim, S.Y. Liu, Leong Lin Heng, Beh
Lau Seng and Hui See Lim, all great teachers from various martial arts
traditions who have contributed to his knowledge. In addition, thanks
to his student Long Tian Ching for his photography and Alan Ang who started
him on the Internet and keeper of the Nanyang Wing Chun Website at http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~angalan.
Last but not least, many thanks to his wonderful one in a million wife
Alice for her tolerance, understanding and love.
René Ritchie would like to thank his teacher, Ngo Lui-Kay
(Ao Leiqi) for sharing with him grandmaster Sum Nung's teachings of Yuen
Kay-San's art and for his continual support, encouragement, and assistance
with this project and others. In addition, thanks to his classmates Antony
Casella, Georgia Dow, David Johnson, Deon Weir, and Wilson Woo for all
their assistance. Also, thanks to Yuen Jo-Tong, Y.C. Yeung, Dan Lam, Bud
Shapard, and Michael Engle of the Yuen Kay-San style and to Jim Roselando
and the many other Wing Chun enthusiasts he has had a chance to converse
with over the years. Thanks also to Kenny Fung for his help with Chinese
language and culture. Lastly, special thanks to his co-authors and big
martial brothers Robert Chu and Y. Wu for sharing with him their knowledge
and widening his understanding of the many branches of the art.
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