1. William Cheung is the head of the Global Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu Association, the sanctioning body of TWC.
19 Facts About William Cheung
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William Cheung was responsible for introducing Bruce Lee to his master, Ip Man, when they were teenagers in Hong Kong.
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William Cheung's fighting concerned his father, a police inspector, who disapproved of such behavior; as a result, Cheung avoided involvement in gangs.
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Around 1954, a turning point in William Cheung's life came when he witnessed a gang leader, undefeated in combat, challenge an elderly man who was rumored to practice a lesser-known Kung Fu style created by a woman.
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However, William Cheung advocated on Lee's behalf, and eventually, Lee was accepted into the school.
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One day, William Cheung fought a triad leader and seriously injured him, prompting his father to send him away from Hong Kong to keep him out of harm's way.
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William Cheung left Hong Kong and moved to Canberra, Australia, to study economics at the Australian National University.
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In 1973, William Cheung founded a martial arts school in Melbourne, Australia, and in 1976, he was elected president of the Australian Kung Fu Federation.
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In September 1986, William Cheung was attacked by 24-year-old Emin Boztepe, a Wing Chun practitioner from the EWTO, while conducting a seminar in Cologne, West Germany.
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William Cheung was pulled down in front of several people, and the incident was filmed.
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In early 1976, William Cheung helped establish the Australian National Kung Fu Federation and became its president.
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William Cheung trained students in the US, including some who went on to have successful martial arts careers.
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William Cheung trained Anthony Arnett, who has been winning martial arts tournaments since 1974 and has earned the title of grand champion multiple times, including streaks of three and six consecutive years in different tournament circuits.
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William Cheung taught unarmed combat to the US Marines of the Seventh Fleet, based in Yokosuka, Japan.
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William Cheung was recognized as one of Ip Man's disciples who helped establish Wing Chun's reputation as a fighting art through the challenge matches in Hong Kong.
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In 1984, William Cheung set a world speed punching record of 8.3 punches per second at Harvard University in Boston.
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Over a 28-year period, William Cheung was featured on the front cover of 35 magazines, from 1982 to 2010.
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William Cheung attained a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University after graduating from secondary school in Hong Kong.
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William Cheung is a certified Doctor of Chinese Medicine under the Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria and a member of the Australian Chinese Traditional Orthopaedics Association Inc Additionally, he has been invited as a guest professor to Foshan Sports University and as a senior research professor in the bone research department at Beijing Chinese Medical University.