Jason Lau
| Jason Lau | |
|---|---|
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| Born | Lau Wai |
| Style | Kung Fu Wing Chun |
| Teacher(s) | Jiu Wan (Jiu Wun) |
| Rank | Grandmaster |
| Notable students | Alan Goldberg, Michael Militano, Chris Burke, Louis Oscar, Joseph Miller |
| Notable school(s) | Jason Lau Wing Chun Kung Fu Training Center |
| Website | www |
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Jason Lau is a martial arts practitioner of Wing Chun Kung Fu as the Grandmaster of the Jiu Wan branch.[1] He worked as the "resident martial-arts master" in the Cobray International counter-terrorist training camp of Mitchell Livingston WerBell III,[2] an "old boys club" member of the clandestine United States Intelligence Community.[3]
Career[edit]
Jason Lau learned Wing Chun under Jiu Wan (Chiu Wan) and introduced his friend Francis Fong to the style.[4] Jason Lau worked under the late Mitchell Werbell III in his counter-terrorist training camp Cobray International in Powder Springs, GA;[2] WerBell had an established history with the CIA and other clandestine governmental agencies.[3] At Cobray International, security forces for Lyndon LaRouche were trained.[2] Jason Lau's experience reportedly allowed him "to walk...across ceilings like a human fly, remain crouched in a motionless position for hours while waiting for his prey, jump higher than people's heads; and pause, bird-like, suspended in the air," according to Eagle magazine.[2] In 1987 Jason Lau helped stage a mock terrorist raid on a synagogue in Atlanta.[5][6]
Students[edit]
Alan Goldberg, one of Lau's top students, was named 2004 Kung Fu Artist of the Year by Black Belt magazine.[7] Chris Burke, Michael Militano, and Louis Oscar are also top students that have their own Kung Fu schools.[8][9][10][11]
Lineage[edit]
Jason Lau learned Wing Chun from Jiu Wan. Jiu Wan, according to Jason Lau, was Kung Fu brothers with Ip Man.[12] Another student of Jiu Wan states that he was Yip Man's student but goes on to say "Since, as it is said, "There can be no two teachers in the same style" or in other words no two teachers equal in skill, in his twenty years of following Yip Man Jiu Wan has always treated Yip Man as his master."[13] On September 11, 2012 Jason Lau went on an interview for ucwradio, an online entertainment magazine,[14] and vehemently stated that Jiu Wan never studied under Yip Man considering the idea as a "bizarre thing". Plus he also stated that he specified "very clearly" to Wong Shun Leung and Hawkins Cheung (notable Yip Man's students) that Jiu Wan never was a student of Yip Man.[15] The students of Francis Fong, Jason Lau's kung fu brother and another student of Jiu Wan, have also corroborated to the story saying that Jiu Wan and Yip Man were class mates who studied together.[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Lineage". Wingchun Team Italia. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 King, Dennis (1989). Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday. p. 192. ISBN 0-385-23880-0. Retrieved 25 March 2009. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Werbell Attorneys Drafting Defense". The Law Offices of Edwin Marger - Drug Trial. Marietta Daily Journal. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Clark Thornton. "The History of Our Wing Chun Clan". woodendummy.net. The Great Lion Wooden Dummy Company. Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Mock terrorist attack on teens to be staged at synagogue in Cobb". The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. 7 February 1987.
Jason Lau and 12 associates plan to burst into a Cobb County synagogue Saturday night, fire automatic weapons into the air and take 118 teenagers hostage. The synagogue is paying him to do it. The guns will fire blanks and the blood will be phony. By staging the mock terrorist attack - an attack that will include a graphic "killing" and a "rape" - Congregation Etz Chaim and the national organization United Synagogue Youth hope to teach the ...
- ↑ "Teen-Agers In Atlanta Told Of 'Terrorist Raid'". The New York Times. 8 February 1987. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ↑ Fogan, Sara (November 2005). "Alan Goldberg: 2004 Kung Fu Artist of the Year". Black Belt Magazine. Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Wing Chun History". jasonlauwingchun.com. Jason Lau Wing Chun Kung Fu Training Center. Archived from the original on 2009-03-13. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Lau Yat Wing Chun - The Academy". Lau Yat Wing Chun. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
- ↑ "Michael Militano Wing Chun Kung-Fu - Instructor". Michael Militano Wing Chun Kung-Fu. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Master Louis Oscar". Louis Oscar Wing Chun Kung Fu. Archived from the original on 2010-01-31. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Nishimura, Akko (April 1999). "Francis Fong: Teaching old arts to a new generation". Inside KungFu Magazine. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
Jason Lau described his teacher's relationship to the late Grandmaster Yip Man (considered by many as the patriarch of modern Wing Chun), "Jiu Wun and Yip Man studied martial arts together at the Jing Mu Guan in Foshan. That was the most elite of institutions in southern China, dedicated solely to the highest levels of martial arts training." Sifu Lau continued to explain that Yip Man left early, completing the Wing Chun system elsewhere, and was the first to teach Wing Chun in Hong Kong. Jiu Wun went on to become at a teacher at the Jing Mu Guen. "When the communists came to China, Jiu Wun went to Hong Kong and joined Yip Man's organization. They were friends from way back and he wanted to make alliances...He respected Yip Man's territory. Sometimes he helped teach at the school.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Yip Man & Jiu Wan". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2009-03-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The UCW Radio Show Features Wing Chun Pioneer and Martial Arts Legend Jason Lau". ucwmagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Wing Chun Grandmaster Jason Lau on the Power Hour". BlogTalkRadio. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- ↑ "Sifu Francis Fong Personal History". atlantamartialartscenter.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-16. Unknown parameter
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