Style Weekly: Kung Fu Master Eyes Downtown

In the 25th year of the Richmond Moy Yat Kung Fu Academy, local Richmond weekly paper interviewed Grandmaster Moy Tung:

Ving Tsun Kung Fu traveled a long way to get to Richmond. Expatriates from China's provinces brought it to Hong Kong after the Communist revolution. It leapt to the United States as Chinese disciples immigrated west, where it was later taught to an entire generation of young Americans.

Anthony Dandridge was one of those. Now, nearly 25 years after opening one of the first Ving Tsun — better known on these shores as Wing Chun — Kung Fu academies in the city, grandmaster “Moy Tung” Dandridge says the Richmond Ving Tsun Kung Fu School is ready to expand again.

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“What we want is to keep the art alive,” Dandridge says. The school thrives, he says, because people realize soon after beginning training that Ving Tsun is more than about becoming a better fighter.

Ving Tsun, he says, “is about the science of fighting, about zones and theories of quadrants and recognizing and reacting to threats in those quadrants instinctually.”

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