Hawkins Cheung

張學健

Description

Wing Chun teacher, student of Ip Man from 1956 in Hong Kong and friend of Bruce Lee. He left Hong Kong for Australia in the late 1950s; his 1991-1992 Inside Kung Fu articles describe Ip Man's school.

Teachers (1)

  • Ip Man
    swordsWing Chun Probable
    Probable
    Single source.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    (1956)
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    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    “In 1956, a year of important developments, the seemingly nomadic Ip Man moved his school to a new location on Lee Tat Street in Yau Ma Tei. This was the actual gym that greeted such notable new students as Bruce Lee and Hawkins Cheung.”
    — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info

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Sources

Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Artslink info

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Hawkins Cheung. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M69YKDGMFJH4Y8QSA0D0X12K - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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