Wing
Chun Kung Fu is my life, it has been since I was introduced to
it at age 22. As a teenager in junior high school, I had an
interest in wrestling and joined the wrestling team. After
finishing high school in 1975, I enlisted in the US Marine
Corps, where I saw my first Bruce Lee movie. Watching his movies
was where my interest in martial arts began. Through research, I
found that Wing Chun was the core of Bruce Lee's style. Ip Man
was Bruce Lee's Wing Chun Sifu. There was no Wing Chun available
where I was stationed, so I began my martial arts journey with a
kick boxing style called Sho-Bu-Kan karate. Sho-Bu-Kan taught me
how to kick box, but lacked what I was really looking for in a
martial art. After leaving the Marine Corps, in 1979, I met Sifu
Jason Lau, a renowned Wing Chun instructor, who at that time,
was located at 1000 Flatbush Ave, in Brooklyn, New York, where I
studied under both Sifu Jason and his disciple Miguel Hernandez.
When Sifu Jason moved to Atlanta, I continued my training with
Sifu Miguel. About a year later, I left New York and moved to
South Florida. I spent many years looking for a competitive
school similar to Sifu Jason Lau's, but to my amazement, I
learned that there were many variations of the Wing Chun system
being taught. These schools were lacking what I was looking for
until I met Sifu John Melillo. Sifu Melillo, was able to give me another level of
training in the Wing Chun system. I completed Sifu Melillo's
training in Wing Chun Kung Fu who
completed his training under Sifu Lun Syn and later under Ip Ching. I was one of Sifu Melillo’s first instructors at his Sample Road school in Pompano Beach, Florida. In January of 2004, the Sample Road school closed, and with Sifu Melillo's blessing, I opened the Lauderhill school. I have over 30 years of training
in Wing Chun and have trained in many other styles as well. I will always be true to Wing Chun and
will share everything I know with my students.