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WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO LEARN wanted to go to Shaolin Temple to study martial
MARTIAL ARTS? arts and literature. And then a vision came to my
mind, Temple and later Wing Chun.
Childhood’s Dream:
So I came up with Wing Chun Temple, and my Sifu
I started my interest in Martial Arts since I was 6 was impressed.
years of age after I accidentally got into the theatre
by myself and saw Master Ti Lung’s film. So I made up my mind about WING CHUN TEM-
From that point, my life was never be the same, PLE School’s Mission and Vision:
and my quest for an understanding of Martial Arts
was an everlasting. My childhood dream was to WING CHUN TEMPLE is not just another martial
go and live in Shaolin Temple and study Gung Fu arts school, nor just another Wing Chun Kwoon;
and literature. That was all I could think of during it’s an ALL inclusive Martial Arts School by com-
my childhood. bing the old way of learning into the modern world
that we’re living in. When one learns at WING
I was inspired by Master Ti Lung and later by Mas- CHUN TEMPLE, she or he will be a well-rounded
ter Bruce Lee, so Wing Chun Gung Fu was always martial artist by receiving martial arts skills and
my goal. But there was not any Wing Chun Gung also martial arts academics as well such as lear-
Fu school around where I lived. So I started to ning Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism with
study American Kenpo Karate and Kickboxing other Eastern and Western philosophy studies.
with Sensei Paul Hock’s school, which very clo-
sed to my house. And later I met Sensei Thomas
Martin, and I asked a permission from Sensei Paul
Hock to study under Sensei Thomas Martin. And
of course, Sensei Paul Hock granted my wish be-
cause Sensei Thomas Martin was also an Instruc-
tor at his school too. Afterward, my journey was
not ended; I continue to take Tae Kwon Do, Tai
Chi and other martial arts styles. But my heart
was always for Wing Chun Gung Fu. So one day,
I accidentally found out from my Gung Fu brother
that he found a Wing Chun School in OC County,
and I told him that I was interested to check out
and enroll it. Because Wing Chun schools were
not many and my dream finally came true. So I
signed up and studied Wing Chun Gung Fu since
then until now.

I’ve been doing Martial Arts most of my life, and
I got to the point that it was more internal unders-
tanding when I am more mature. So my Sifu told
me that I was ready to pass on the art. So I was
granted to be a Sifu level. But I am still constantly
learning all the time.

And then I had to come up with the school name,
so I was thinking that when I was a child I always

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