About William Cheung:
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	At the age of 10, William Cheung started his training in wing chun
kung fu under Yip Man.  He was 14 when he decided to follow wing chun as a
way of life.  He trained full-time under Yip Man's roof, and for the next
four years, wing chun took up all of his time.  Between 1957 and 1958
Cheung won the kung fu elimination contests in Hong Kong, defeating opponents
with many more years experience.  Childhood friend of the late Bruce Lee,
Cheung brought Bruce to Yip Man to begin his wing chun training in 1953,
and the two remained close friends until the latter's death in 1973.
	From 1959 when he arrived in Australia to pursue his academic studies,
Cheung organized small informal groups interested in the arts.  However, after
the death of his master, Yip Man, in 1973 marked a turning point in his life.
He decided that the traditional taboo placed on the teaching of wing chun to
non-Chinese was an anachronistic and unjustifiable xenophobia.  Accordingly, he
formed the first wing chun kung fu school in Australia in which the full extent
of the Chinese art was taught to Australians of both Chinese and Anglo Saxon 
extraction.
	Cheung was appointed as a Chief Instructor to the U.S. Seventh Fleet
based in Yukosuka, Japan, and served in that capacity from 1978-1980.  During
this time, he was in charge of the intensive program of close quarter combat
for the marines.
	Many of Cheung's students have achieved international recognition for
their martial arts prowess.  In 1982 his students won both the heavyweight and 
middleweight divisions in the World Invitation Kung Fu Championships held in
Hong Kong.  Further, Cheung himself was awarded the 1983 Black Belt Hall of
Fame Award as Kung Fu Artist of the Year.
	In 1984 William Cheung set the world speed punching record of 8.3
punches per second at Harvard University in Boston.  Each punch was recorded
as having 165 pounds of force.  He has also been engaged in research and
development to improve training and execution of techniques in Wing Chun, and
has been the first in his field to apply advanced biomechanical methods such
as high speed filming and computer technology in an attempt to empirically
analyze the movements of the art of wing chun kung fu.