Moy Yat (梅逸) (June 28, 1938 – January 23, 2001) was a

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

martial artist, painter, seal maker, teacher and author. He was a student of the legendary

Wing Chun Wing Chun (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring"), sometimes spelled Ving Tsun, is a concept-based fighting art, form of Nanquan (martial art), Southern Chinese kung fu and close-quarters system of self-defense. In Mandarin, it is ...

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teacher Yip Man (also romanized as

Ip Man Ip Man, also known as Yip Man, ( / 叶问; 1 October 1893 – 2 December 1972) was a Hong Kong-based Cantonese people, Cantonese martial artist and a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun when he was 20. He had several students who later ...

) from 1957 until Ip Man's death in 1972.

Teaching

Moy Yat was a teacher of the

Ving Tsun Wing Chun (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring"), sometimes spelled Ving Tsun, is a concept-based fighting art, form of Southern Chinese kung fu and close-quarters system of self-defense. In Mandarin, it is pronounced "Yong Chun. ...

( 詠春, also romanized as

Wing Tsun Wing Chun (Chinese: 詠春 or 咏春, lit. "singing spring"), sometimes spelled Ving Tsun, is a concept-based fighting art, form of Southern Chinese kung fu and close-quarters system of self-defense. In Mandarin, it is pronounced "Yong Chun. ...

) style of

. He began teaching in

, in 1962, at the direction of his ''

Sifu Shifu () in Mandarin, or sifu in Cantonese, or sai hu in Hokkien, is a title for, and the role of, a skillful person or a master. The character 師/师 means "skilled person" or "teacher," while 傅 means "tutor" and 父 means "father." Though ...

'' (teacher), Ip Man. After Ip Man's death, Moy Yat moved to

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and began teaching there until he retired from teaching at age 60. According to ''Inside Kung-Fu'' Magazine, he was "...considered among the greatest martial arts teachers of all time." He had many students, coming from all around the Tri-State Area. Some of his students include: William Moy Miguel Hernandez Leo Immamura Pete Pajil Sunny Tang Steve Manchester Also see: Senior Students section.

Published work

Moy Yat was the author of six books: ''108 Muk Yan Jong''; ''Wing Chun Kuen Kuit''; ''A Legend of Kung Fu Masters''; ''Dummy: A Tool for Kung Fu''; Wing Chun Trilogy; and ''Luk Dim Poon Kwan''. ''Wing Chun Kuen Kuit'' includes prints of Moy Yat's famous stone carvings of the history, lineage, and major principles of the

style of

International Recognition

After Moy Yat's death in 2001,

William Cheung William Cheung or Cheung Cheuk-hing (張卓慶, pinyin: ''Zhāng Zhuóqìng'') (born October 10, 1940) is a Hong Kong Wing Chun kung fu practitioner and currently the Grandmaster of his lineage of Wing Chun, entitled Traditional Wing Chun (TW ...

, Grandmaster of his own “ Traditional Wing Chun” organization said: “The death of Moy Yat is a great loss not only to the martial art of

, but also to the world. He was a very learned man, a good painter, poet, artist and a gentleman. This is a great loss to

Chinese culture Chinese culture () is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago. The culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia and is extremely diverse and varying, with customs and traditions varying grea ...

.” In recognition of the 2008 Olympic Games, and the Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008, both held in the

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, the Chinese Government issued a series of commemorative postage stamps and a collectors album, ''Chinese Wushu Treasure Stamps Album'', in a Limited edition of 7200 copies. The album features the greatest Wu Shu (martial art) practitioners of all time, including Moy Yat.

Senior students

Out of the thousands of students he taught throughout his career, Moy Yat named his five senior students in his last published work, ''Luk Dim Poon Kwan'' : “Jeffrey Chan, Sunny Tang, Henry Moy, Lee Moy Shan, and Micky Chan.” A Directory of "Moy Yat Ving Tsun Instructors" on Grandmaster Moy Yat's website before he passed is preserved by the Internet Archive; it lists 24 direct students, as well as more grandstudent and great-grandstudent instructors. MoyYat.com ''Directory'' (Oct 05, 2000) https://web.archive.org/web/20001005032835/http://moyyat.com/directory.htm

References

External links

Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu

Moy Yat Europe

Moy Yat Ving Tsun Martial Intelligence Europe

MoyYat.com
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