Speaker Series: Duncan Leung

Yesterday, Sifu Duncan Leung visited AISG as a part of our Annual Fund Speaker Series. Sifu Leung is a traditional Chinese Kung Fu master, one of Grandmaster Yip Man’s earliest students in the 1950s. In the 1960s, when Kung Fu became popular due to Bruce Lee’s films, Sifu Leung opened his first school in New York and over the decades, has devoted his life in preserving Chinese Kung Fu by teaching all over the world.

Sifu Leung practices Wing Chun Kung Fu, a Southern Chinese style of Kung Fu that is practiced in close quarters and is about self-defense. He explained the importance of why this is called a “traditional” martial art, because it is based on culture and the long history of having to defend your territory. In our current times of peace, its roots of self-defense are still applied today by building one’s self-confidence to protect themselves from harm.

Sifu Leung visited both our Ersha campus and our Science Park campuses, speaking to our students on stage and hosting special training sessions with our Grade 5 and Grade 7 students.

Onstage, along with some of his students, he demonstrated self-defense techniques, explaining how the moves work, and why the moves are effective. Always in the spirit of self-defense, Kung Fu can use the strength of your opponent so that even the smallest individual can prevail.

For the special training sessions, students got a chance to try out some moves! Students paired up and practiced on each other safely, with Sifu Leung, his students, and our teachers keeping a close eye. Our students had so much fun laughing and learning the correct techniques of self-defense.