Augustine Fong – Wing Chun Biu Gee Form Part 4

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Augustine Fong was born on the island of Macao, off the coast of southern China. Since his early childhood, he has had a special interest in the Chinese martial arts. In 1960, he was fortunate enough to begin training in a traditional gung fu style. His instructor was the honorable Wing Chun master, Ho Kam Ming. Master Ho, a top student of the late grand master Yip Man, had, at that time, introduced the style to the Macao area. Augustine Fong, without a second thought, became one of his first students. By 1964, master Ho’s school had grown considerably. The school had gained a reputation, so good, in fact, that a famous gung-fu school from Hong Kong decided to send a formal challenge. Challenges, back then, were very serious business. The challenging school, in this case, had also obtained an impressive name and reputation. It was understood that they had fought and won over a hundred contests in this manner, and as a result, defeated a number of top schools in Hong Kong. Accepting the written challenge, master Ho decided that Fong would fight the match. Fong was master Ho’s best student and toughest fighter. On the appointed day, the challenger appeared along with his instructor and ten fellow students. Out of courtesy, the challenger’s sifu was appointed the referee. The match was to consist of three rounds, with the only rule being you could not step out of the fighting area. During the fight, Fong dominated his opponent. In the second round, he became very aggressive, driving the challenger into a mok jeong (wooden dummy) (wooden dummy). In the third and final round, Fong continued his advantage, chasing and punching his opponent into a wall. Reeling off the wall, the challenger fell into a well-timed punch and was knocked unconscious. Without a word, his sifu and si dai picked him up and carried him out. Master Ho’s school, through Fong’s victory, had upheld its reputation. Fong, because of the encounter, became quite well known throughout Hong Kong and Macao. In Macao he is still renowned as Wing Chun’s “Gum-Pai Da-Sau” or “Golden Ribbon Boxer.” Following this episode, many new students, hearing of the school’s repute, opted to join. To aid with the increased number of pupils, Fong was requested to assist master Ho in instructing. This was quite an honor for the young Fong. But instead of sharing on the wonderful news to his family, he opted to keep it to himself. His mother, during this period, was a very severe woman. Her view of the arts was not totally high. She believed that gung fu ability would only lead to disaster. So, rather than disturbing his mother, Fong had opted from the start to keep his talent a secret. And boy, did he ever! His mother had no idea he was practicing Wing Chun for thirteen years! During this time, sifu Fong began his studies with Chinese herbalist sifu Wong Bing Gong. Sifu Wong was a well-known healer who had received his craft from a monk. During WWII, he used his skills to heal a large number of patients. Sifu Wong taught Fong how to utilize “Dit Da” massage to cure bruises, strains, and sprains as well as broken bones. Sifu Wong also taught him how to prepare plants and their medicinal treatments, which was invaluable information for a martial artist. Augustine Fong relocated to Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 1967 owing to civil unrest in Macao. Master Ho, his instructor, founded a Wing Chun school there, where Fong practiced and taught for two years. Then, in 1969, sifu Fong went to America, following in his father’s footsteps. Sifu Fong quickly began teaching and promoting the Wing Chun style after moving to Nogales, Arizona, and subsequently settling in Tucson. He accepted a job teaching self-defense for the city of Tucson. The curriculum was so successful that he founded his own school in 1973, spurred on by his pupils and friends. This was the southwestern United States’ first public Wing Chun school! With over 37 years of expertise in the discipline, Master Fong is regarded as one of the world’s most skilled Wing Chun masters by the Ho KamMing Wing Chun Association in Hong Kong. In addition to the two basic Wing Chun weapons, the Lok Dim Bun Quan (six and a half point long staff) and the Bat Jaam Do (butterfly knives), he is skilled in a broad range of other martial arts weapons and excels in the southern Lion Dance. Master Fong learnt the latter from Master Chan Gin Man of Hong Kong’s Hung Sing Choi Lee Fut Kuen. People have travelled from all across the United States and Mexico to study with Master Fong because of his knowledge. Master Fong supported Master Ho’s journey to the United States in 1989 to promote the art of Wing Chun. During this tour, a Wing Chun Seminar was held at the headquarters of the Fong Wing Chun Gung-Fu Federation. Master Fong was designated top judge of the United States Wing Chun committee in 1990. In this role, he was in charge of developing the regulations for the Wing Chun Sticky Hands event hosted by the United States National Chinese Martial Arts Competitions. Master Fong has done martial arts demonstrations, performed lion dances around Arizona and Sonara, Mexico, and arranged extremely successful martial arts shows in Arizona to promote the Wing Chun method. He has been on various local television and radio shows, as well as in pieces published in the magazines “Black Belt” and “Inside Kung-Fu,” as well as several local newspapers. He had also given several lectures around the country. Master Fong has published eight volumes of publications covering the whole Wing Chun Gung-Fu system. He has created 8 volumes of video cassettes for the Wing Chun System with the assistance of The Panther Production Company. The Martial Art Society has named Tucson’s Fong’s Wing Chun Gung-Fu Academy one of the best Wing Chun Gung-Fu Schools after many years of hard effort. Master Fong presently manages his own federation headquatered in Tucson, Arizona Arizona where he formed his own Wing Chun Academy and established the headquarters for “Fong’s Wing Chun Gung-Fu Federation”. This organization is still dedicated to the precise fundamentals of the whole Wing Chun Gung-Fu system, and it presently has connected schools throughout the United States and Canada. Wing Chun Biu Gee Form: Includes the whole form history and applications, as well as Asking Hands, 2-Man and 3-Man Sticky Hands, and Lop Sao. (Approximately 58 minutes)

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