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Grandmaster (Sigung) Jim Fung is one of the world's leading practitioners of Wing Chun kung fu. He has been training under his master, Chu Shong-tin|Tsui Seung Tin (?????????), since 1960. Great Grandmaster Tsui, chairman of the esteemed Hong Kong Ving Tsun Sports Association, was one of the three closed door students of the legendary Yip Man, who took Wing Chun to Hong Kong during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Image:jimfung_wingchun.jpg|left|frame|GM Jim Fung teaching full time studentsGrandmaster Fung's International Wing Chun Academy, which opened in South Australia in 1973, is now the largest martial arts school in Australasia. The Academy has three main offices based in New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland with over 20 branches in those states, and 12 overseas franchises. In 1989, it became the first martial arts school to receive official Australian Government recognition for its two-year full-time Certificate Course in Wing Chun Instruction. The course has attracted interest worldwide because of Grandmaster Fung???s reputation, and its standing as the first course anywhere to raise martial arts to the tertiary level. Early in 2005, it was upgraded to diploma level and now embraces sport coaching. Image:jimfung_thrustkick.jpg|frame|GM Jim Fung demonstrates the awesome power of the Wing Chun thrust kick Grandmaster Fung believes his business success is in part due to the universal appeal of the art: because it doesn???t rely on brute strength, anybody, regardless of age, sex or physique can learn. ???Wing Chun is a science which mixes physics, math, logic and biology all into one,??? he says. ???It takes skill, speed and positioning to overcome your opponent.??? His dedication to preserving genuine Wing Chun through quality teaching and his own remarkable prowess are undoubtedly other important factors. Over the years, Grandmaster Fung???s mastery of Wing Chun???s devastating ???thought force??? (or chi) has become well known in martial arts circles. Two examples are his famous one-inch-punch, in which a punch delivered just one inch from its target can send an opponent sprawling up to three metres away, and the equally effective thrust kick. Image:Sifu_fung_sigung_tsui.jpg|left|frame|Si Tai Gung Tsui and Sigung Fung engage in Chi Sau With more than 40 years training behind him, Grandmaster Fung continues to practice every day ???Even at my level, I find there is always something new to learn,??? he says. Conferred the title Grandmaster (Sigung) by Great Grandmaster (Si Tai Gung) Chu Shong-tin|Tsui Seung Tin in 1999, he is the author of two books, Wing Chun Kung Fu (now in its fourth printing) and Wing Chun Weapons, and produced a teaching video, Wing Chun, in 1985. His video was given a five-star rating by Inside Kung Fu magazine in the 1980s. Grandmaster Fung was also inducted into the magazine's Hall of Fame a few years later. Grandmaster Fung was chosen to represent Chinese kung fu at the International Grandmasters' Martial Arts Exhibition in Adelaide, Australia, in 1989, and has received many accolades for his contribution to martial arts and the community. However, he says the greatest honour thus far was having his Academy officially recognised by the Chinese Government and world ruling body for Chinese martial arts in the All Chinese Martial Arts Register published in 1998. That recognition was afforded to only two other martial arts schools from outside China. The image to the left shows Grandmaster Fung and Great Grandmaster Tsui engaging in Chi Sau, an exercise used to train speed, reflexes, sensitivity, power, and balance. Image:wingchun_worldrecord_resized.jpg|frame|Grandmaster Fung and Robert Ardito In August, 2005, one of Grandmaster Fung's students, Robert Ardito, received world acclaim when he broke the Guinness Book of Records speed punching record. His record was 428 punches per minute, breaking the previous record of 347 punches per minute.
Category:Wing Chun practitioners Category:Chinese people This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Jim Fung".
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