TUCSON VING TSUN ACADEMY

SiFu Don Grose began his Ving Tsun career in 1982 and was a student for 10 years. After which he began his own organization using the Ving Tsun name. This was done out of respect for the memory fo Grand Master Ip Man. In 1990 he began the first Ving Tsun Kung Fu Club at the University of Arizona. During this time he was also the Arizona AAU Chinese Martial Arts Chairman.

In 1999 he became a member of the Ving Tsun Athletic Association of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the United States Koushu Federation. He is presently a member of the USA Wushu Kung Fu Federation.

He is a United States National Champion in Chi Sau, 1996. He has also produced several fine Chi Sau competitors in recent years, 1999, 2001.

In 1990 he started his association with the Sargo Kung Fu Club of Mutare, Zimbabwe Africa which later became the Mutare Ving Tsun Kung Fu club under the direction of SiFu Prince Zambuko.

In 1991 SiFu Don began an association with several groups in India who have embraced the art of Ving Tsun. After several years of hard work and travel to India he has established several schools in various cities on the Sub-Continent which are training very hard to become leaders of Ving Tsun.

Arizona Wing Chun Association of Phoenix Arizona.

He was given license by Grand Master Samuel Kwok at the level of SiFu in his martial Arts association in 2008. He has now been accepted as a student of Master Samuel Kwok in 2009 who in turn is a student of both of Ip Mans sons, Ip Chun and Ip Ching

Since this time he was given the title of Grand Master of Wing Chun by the WORLD WIDE MARTIAL ARTS COUNCIL.

SiFu Don Grose was nominated and accepted into the World Martial Arts Black Belt Hall of Fame in, KuChing, Malaysia in 2005, and the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame, 2005.

TEACHINGS OF VING TSUN KUEN

The Monks were taught that a good soldier is not violent .

The good fighter is not angry.

The good winner is not vengeful.

They were also taugh to repay injury with justice and kindness with kindness and that the one who conquers himself is the greatest warrior, a warrior at one with Nature, filled with compassion, wisdom, and the joy of self-knowledge; that is to say, englightened.

Chuang Tze: "The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror. It grasp nothing . It expects nothing. It reflects but does not hold. Therefore, the perfect man can act without effort."

We must therefore learn ways to preserve rather than destroy. Avoid rather than check; check rather than hurt; hurt rather than maim; maim rather than kill; for all life is precious, nor can any be replaced." Take the advice of Sun Tzu:

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill".

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