|
Sifu ("Master") Jay Hitchman traces his Ving Tsun training back nearly 400 years to the style's originator in much the same way as one would their own family tree.
Sifu Jay was trained by Master Pete Pajil ("Moy Bah Hugh" is the Kung Fu name given to him by his Master Moy Yat) who was a corrections officer in Graterford maximum-security prison and was the youngest in our Kung Fu family to begin to teach. He began training with his Master Moy Yat in 1982.
Moy Yat came to the New York City's Chinatown and began teaching Kung Fu in 1973. He became well respected in the community as both a Kung Fu master and as an artist as he trained students for more than 20 years. Disciples of his school went on to found schools in such other countries as Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and the number of current Ving Tsun students range in the tens of thousands across the globe.
Moy Yat was very close with his Master, Yip Man, under whom he had trained for more than fifteen years. Yip Man believed and taught that, more than techniques, authentic Ving Tsun was a lifestyle – and that the principles of balance, timing, coordination, sensitivity, and relaxation should be applied to every day life. This living by example outside of the classroom has come to be known as "Kung-Fu Life".
(continued...)
|
