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Augustine Fong was born on the island of Macao, off the coast of southern China.
His instructor was the honorable Wing Chun master, Ho Kam Ming.
Augustine Fong became one of his first students. Fong was master Ho Kam Ming's best student and toughest fighter.
In 1967 Augustine Fong moved to Kowloon, Hong Kong. There, his instructor, master Ho, opened a Wing Chun school, where Fong practiced and taught for two years. In 1969 sifu Fong immigrated to America. Moving to Nogales, Arizona, and then settling in Tucson, sifu Fong soon began to teach and promote the Wing Chun style. In Tucson, he accepted a position teaching self-defense for the city.In 1973 he opened his own school. This was the first public Wing Chun school in the southwestern United States
Today, with over thirty-seven years of experience in the art, Master Fong is considered by the Ho KamMing Wing Chun Association in Hong Kong to be among the most skillful Wing Chun masters in the world. Furthermore, in addition to the two traditional Wing Chun weapons,the Lok Dim Bun Quan (Six and one-half Point Long Staff) and the Bat Jaam Do (Butterfly Knives), he is adept in a wide variety of other martial arts weapons and also specializes in the southern Lion Dance. Master Fong learned the latter from Master Chan Gin Man of the Hung Sing Choi Lee Fut Kuen in Hong Kong.
Master Fong currently operates his own federation headquatered in Tucson, Arizona where he founded his own Wing Chun Academy and established the headquarters for "Fong's Wing Chun Gung-Fu Federation".
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Seminar
Wing Chun
Duisburg 22/23.11.2008
In days 22/23.11.2008 was Wing Chun Seminar in Duisburg.
The seminar conducted Sifu Mario Lopez - Chief CRCA-Lopez.
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