Sifu Eddie Chong ^[1] is an internationally recognized kung fu martial artist and instructor. Sifu Chong operates from his Sacramento, California-based school. He has nine affiliated schools and a school in Mexico. Sifu Chong has been viewed by many prominent martial artists worldwide as a preeminent practitioner and instructor of Wing Chun Kung Fu. Alternative meaning: Kung Fu (TV series) Kung fu or gongfu (功夫, Pinyin: gōngfu) is a well-known Chinese term used in the West to designate Chinese martial arts. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Nickname: City of Trees Location of Sacramento in California County Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo Area    - City 99. ... Wing Chun occasionally romanized as Ving Tsun (咏春, literally spring chant and alternatively as forever spring, or substituted with the character for eternal springtime [1]) is a Chinese martial art that emphasizes short-range combat. ...

Sifu Chong has been involved with Wing Chun ^[2] for approximately 30 years. He regularly conducts seminars in and outside the United States. Sifu Chong was born and raised in Singapore. He lived in Japan for two years where he became fluent in the Japenese language. He then moved to the United States in 1964 at the age of 24. He trained several years in Tae Kwon Do and was about to test for the black belt, but discovered his passion when he discovered the Wing Chun system. While practicing and teaching WIng Chun, sifu Chong worked as a lithographer for 20 years. He retired from lithography in 1989 to completely dedicate his life and efforts to teaching and promoting Wing Chun. Wing Chun occasionally romanized as Ving Tsun (咏春, literally spring chant and alternatively as forever spring, or substituted with the character for eternal springtime [1]) is a Chinese martial art that emphasizes short-range combat. ...

In the Beginning

Sifu Chong began Wing Chun training under the tutelage of Kenneth Chung in 1968. Kenneth Chung is a direct disciple of Leung Sheung. Leung Sheung was Yip Man’s first student. It was under the direct tutelage of Kenneth Chung that Eddie Chong mastered the Yip Man style of Wing Chun. Later on, while living in the West, Sifu Chong observed that the fighting art taught at many Wing Chun schools varied, sometimes dramatically. Although a highly effective martial art, he recognized that the system had been modified, and therefore resolved to trace back and find as original a form of Wing Chun as possible. Obviously, the closer he could get to the system's founder, the more pure the art would become. Eddie Chong realized the possibility existed that a practitioner might still be living who had been trained by one of the early masters. With China now open to travel, Sifu Chong decided to seek him out. Kenneth Chung was a student of Leung Sheung. ... Leung Sheung (梁相 1918 - 1978) was the first student of Yip Man in the discipline of Wing Chun. ... Yip Man (葉問 in pinyin: yè wèn; in Jyutping: jip6 man6; alternative spelling Ip Man; also known as 葉繼問; 1893-1972) was the first master (sifu) to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun openly. ...

Sifu Eddie Chong Grand Master Pan Nam

On a trip to his Singapore school, Sifu Chong took an excursion to Foshan, the traditional home of Wing Chun. While in Foshan, his inquires regarding local Wing Chun instructors brought information about 81 year old Master Pan Nam, the last known disciple on Painted Face Kam's branch of the family tree. Sifu Chong learned that Pan Nam had ceased teaching in 1990 and had, in fact, "closed the door" to his gymnasium. Unknown to Sifu Chong, Master Pan had delayed officially retiring, which involved certain formal rituals because he had a premonition that someone, his final student, was coming. Foshan (Chinese: 佛山; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong province, Peoples Republic of China. ...

In Foshan, Sifu Chong met Wing Chun Grand Master Pan Nam and was accepted by Pan Nam as one of his closed door students and became Pan Nam's last disciple. Mr. Chong went through the traditional Chinese ceremony of kneeling and giving a cup of tea to the old Master, asking to be accepted as his disciple. This was followed by a special meal. Afterwards, Master Pan took out his family tree and entered Eddie Chong's name as his closed-door student, the last he would ever accept.

Having fulfilled his desire to train a successor, Master Pan Nam officially hung out the scrolls that proclaimed his retirement when Eddie Chong left Foshan in late Spring of 1992. Sifu Chong returned to visit Pan Nam every year until Master Pan Nam's death in 1996.

Aside from Master Pan Nam teaching Eddie Chong the Foshan branch of Wing Chun, Master Pan Nam also taught him Five Petal Plum Blossom Qigong, which Master Pan Nam considered the lost treasure of Shaolin training. Master Pan Nam was a direct descendant of Shaolin Kung Fu otherwise known as Shàolínquán. Pan Nam's style of Wing Chun is the original Shaolin Wing Chun sytem. Qigong (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: qìgōng; Wade-Giles: chi4 kung1; Thai: ) or Energy-Cultivation, is an aspect of Chinese medicine involving the coordination of different breathing patterns with various physical postures and motions of the body. ... Main gate of the Shaolin Monastery in Henan. ... For the style associated with Gu Ruzhang, see Northern Shaolin (martial art). ...

Sifu Eddie Chong Bak Mei

While training at Foshan with Pan Nam, Sifu Chong also met an aquantance of Pan Nam's, a Bak Mei (White Eyebrow) kung fu master who sought Pan Nam's expertise in Five Petal Qigong as a method of healing his internal organs damaged as a result of extremely vicious and deadly altercations with other masters. The Bak Mei master, for purposes of anonymity we will conveniently call him Master Li. Master Li saught the advice of a local physician due to his suffering from chronic hematuria (blood in one's urin). The physician informed the Bak Mei master that he did not have long to live. Bak Mei, also known as Pai Mei, Pei Mei, Bai Mei, Pak Mei or White Eyebrows, is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders—survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Temple by the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912)—who, according to some accounts, betrayed Shaolin to the...

The Bak Mei master heard of Pan Nam and the healing ability of Pan Nam's Five Petal Qigong. In almost fifty years of teaching Shaolin Wing Chun, Master Pan Nam taught less than a dozen students Qigong. Master Li appealed to Pan Nam to save his life. Pan Nam told him that he must leave off all alcoholic drinks, sexual intercorse and smoking during his Qigong training. Pan Nam required that Master Li must meet him every morning just before dawn for one hundred days straight. Master Li was cured after sixty days of Qigong training and vowed to follow Pan Nam where ever he went to protect him with his life.

When Sifu Eddie Chong saw Master Li's Foshan Bak Mei, he felt Li's style of Bak Mei complemented his Wing Chun and could take his Wing Chun to new heights of technicallity and aggressiveness. Sifu Chong asked Master Li if he would teach him Bak Mei. Master Li decided to take Sifu Chong under his tutelage because of Pan Nam accepting Eddie Chong as his disciple and trained him intensely from 1990-1996. Master Li never accepted anyone as his student who was an outsider of Foshan beside Eddie Chong.

Bak Mei is characterized by its emphasis on powerful close range hand strikes. Within Bak Mei can be found the four principles of Fou (Float), Chum (Sink), Tun (Swallow), and Tou (Spit) common in the Southern Chinese martial arts. Unique to Bak Mei is it’s classification of the following six powers: biu (thrusting), chum (sinking), tan (springing), fa (neutralizing), tung, and chuk. Bak Mei emphasizes the movements of the Tiger, but Bak Mei also uses the other four animal styles associated with the Henan Shaolin Temple as well such as the Crane, the Leopard, the Snake and the Dragon. Together they are known as the Five Animals. One other animal style is used in Bak Mei called the Phoenix Eye. Binomial name Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) Distribution of tigers in 1900 (red) and 1990 (green) Synonyms Felis tigris Linnaeus, 1758 Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858 Tigris regalis Gray, 1867 Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four big cats in the Panthera genus. ... Crane style martial arts may refer to: Fujian White Crane Tibetan White Crane Persatuan Gerak Badan This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Binomial name Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Felis pardus Linnaeus, 1758 The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the four big cats of the genus Panthera. ... Superfamilies and Families Henophidia Aniliidae Anomochilidae Boidae Bolyeriidae Cylindrophiidae Loxocemidae Pythonidae Tropidophiidae Uropeltidae Xenopeltidae Typhlopoidea Anomalepididae Leptotyphlopidae Typhlopidae Xenophidia Acrochordidae Atractaspididae Colubridae Elapidae Hydrophiidae Viperidae Ophidian redirects here. ... For other uses, see Dragon (disambiguation). ... In the Chinese martial arts, imagery of the Five Animals (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; literally Five Forms)—Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon—appears predominantly in Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian Provinces. ... The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary. ...

Eddie Chong today

Today, Sifu Chong teaches the Yip Man style of Wing Chun, the Pan Nam style of Wing Chun and Foshan Bak Mei as well. Only Sifu Chong's closed door students are taught Bak Mei and only by his invitation. There are three treasure forms in Foshan Bak Mei, only the most dedicated of his closed door students may learn those forms and their applications.

Sifu Chong is fulfilling his lifelong desire to master all aspects of Chinese martial arts, including the health benefits of Five Petal Qigong and meditation. Five Petal Qigong channels one's life energy to enhance the body’s ability for self-healing, regeneration and internal power.

Sifu Chong has been the subject of feature articles in several martial arts magazines including BLACKBELT MAGAZINE (May 1982 issue) and featured in INSIDE KUNG FU magazine on many different occasions through out the 1980's to our present time in the twentyfirst century. Sifu Chong has also been featured in newspapers in the cities where his schools are located.

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