Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu

Ng Mui, an abbess, lived at the Shaolin Monastery.  When it was destroyed by Qing forces she managed to escape to the White Crane temple as one of the sole survivors.  There she met a girl living nearby who was being forced to marry a local bandit.  Ng Mui distilled her knowledge of kung fu into an extremely economical and effective system that could be learned quickly.  She taught it to the girl who in turn defeated the bandit.  Ng Mui named the system after her disciple, Yim Ving Tsun (“Eternal Spring”).

The system was passed down through generations of dedicated masters to Yip Man who was the first person to start teaching Ving Tsun publicly in Hong Kong during the middle part of the last century.  Yip Man had many students including Bruce Lee and the late Grandmaster Moy Yat.  Students training at the Minnesota branch of the Moy Yat family can trace their kung fu roots through their sifu(teacher), Master Moy Yat Tung and Master Moy Tung directly to Grandmasters Yip Man and Moy Yat.