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your from BC? nice to see another canadian here

My Dojang is ran by Master Norman. He runs ITF saskatchewan and brought tae kwon do to saskatchewan.

He isn't a grandmaster yet, but said he should be becoming one soon.

I have his class in regina, saskatchewan.

But he also teaches in saskatoon he told us once.
So this is probly the same guy.

Yip Man, now deceased. His sons Yip Chun and Yip Ching. Grandmaster Samuel Kwok.

Wing Chun is full of grandmasters, but those are the only three I'm bothered about.

I study Wing Chun under Sifu Jerry Bolding in Garden City Kansas our school is headed by Grandmaster William Cheung who was also a member of Yip Mans school. There are a lot of difrent schools of Wing Chun some are not from the Yip Man branch and also some of our own family are always fighting its sad.

My sifu is Anthony Goh, president of the US Wu Shu Kung Fu Federation. My Qi Gong master is Chan Zhang. She refuses rank or title, as it tends to make her ill (true).

I met grandmaster Qi Feilong once, when he visited Chan during my Qi Gong training. While I don't doubt he's got skills, I had the (not unique, as I found out) experience of having him try to get me drunk and then tell me he was desperately in love with me and I needed to go to China to train under him. eek Yah. So I've never been particularly fussed about titles since then... confused

...Then again, I *did* take him up on his advice to learn Wu Shu (he said I had the ability and it would enhance my Qi Gong practice), so I guess all ends well, eh?

i find it sad either way. since well its a rivarly between schools with the same grandmaster. like crap same grandmaster. i can see maybe having 2 dif schools being rivals with dif grandmasters though sheesh.

It's often not a case of favourites but of people lying.

People claiming to have trained with Yip Man when they did not, or did so only for a few weeks.

People claiming they know the 'special secret' wing chun and everyone else only knows the 'inferior' version.

People claiming wing chun should only be used for fitness and health, not for fighting.

People who believe wing chun is a fighting art and should be preserved as such.

People who believe the hand forms are 'boring to watch' and need jazzing up a bit.

People who believe parts of WC to be unecessary and removing them.

And so on and forth.

That's why they bicker. Nothing to do with having the 'same grandmaster' - and remember, some of them do not. There are other lineages of Wing Chun not related to Yip Man. Yip Man's own teacher had other students. There are some Vietnamese lineages.