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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank Mark V. Wiley 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 and 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 and 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 by sending e-mail to majordomo@efn.org with the message body reading: info wingchun).

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 Moy Yat 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 his 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 Robert S. Weinberg Sensei 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 Leungs 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.

Rene Ritchie would like to thank his teacher, Ngo Lui-Kay (Ao Leiqi) for sharing with him grandmaster Sum Nungs 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.