Earlier Career
Chong began Wing Chun training under the tutelage of Kenneth Chung in 1968. Kenneth Chung is a direct disciple of Leung Sheung. Leung Sheung was Yip Man’s first student. It was under the direct tutelage of Kenneth Chung that Eddie Chong mastered the Yip Man style of Wing Chun. Later on, while living in the West, Chong observed that the fighting art taught at many Wing Chun schools varied, sometimes dramatically. Although a highly effective martial art, he believed that the system had been modified, and therefore resolved to trace back and find as original a form of Wing Chun as possible. Obviously, the closer he could get to the system's founder, the more pure the art would become. Eddie Chong realized the possibility existed that a practitioner might still be living who had been trained by one of the early masters. With China now open to travel, Sifu Chong decided to seek him out.
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