How many kung fu stars were real martial arts masters?

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

I used to train under Byong Yu- a badass, but an ego maniac and an all around sleazy guy. still thinks he's going to break into the movie business.

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

How about David Chiang?

I saw in a bio video, early from Shaw Brothers it was claimed he studied Tai Chi Chuan.

GD Y-Y

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

And>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And this man whose name escapes me.

For sure he 'IS' a kung fu master.

Gd Y-Y

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

I doubt Chiang is a "master". We shouldn't throw that term around. Wong Tao was a pretty good TKD competitor in the USA, but he doesn't claim to be a master, and I'd say he was a lot more skilled than Chiang on his best day. You know who isn't necessarily a star but would count as a master would be Mark Houghten.

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

PS No one mentioned Carter Wong? That dude is hard core, created his own system and promotes full contact fighting. Ken Lo would be another guy that I would count as a master. Here's my qualification- a master knows the ins and outs of what he is teaching, and can prove it in the ring or on the street. Not just some guy that you have to serve tea and shows you a bunch of techniques that work if you are compliant.

Here is a match between two "masters" who have never sparred before-

[clfnole]

And>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And this man whose name escapes me.

For sure he 'IS' a kung fu master.

Gd Y-Y

Chiu Chi Ling

[Chinatown Kid]

I used to train under Byong Yu- a badass, but an ego maniac and an all around sleazy guy. still thinks he's going to break into the movie business.

It's funny you say that as I remember The Association as being a pretty sleazy movie too.

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

Even his own Black Belt's said "Master Yu's movie is a porno movie!"

Anyway, he used to claim that they were going to let him star in "the Ninja" based on an old hit trashy novel by Eric Von Lustbaeder. I read it. Really bad Joan Collins meets Chuck Norris type stuff with some homophobia at the end. Then it was "the Monkey Man", his life story. He still claims he was a vice president at Universal.

I will say one thing about him. He knows how to make money. He started several successful schools and bought a bunch of real estate.His students were easy to spot at tournaments. They always wore the old style uniform with his patches all over and wore a smug, arrogant expression. Just very cocky. He was a very impressive specimen, so don't take that the wrong way. Fast, fit and even in his 40's he could fight and do forms well. That is a little more common now, but it was a rare thing back then.

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

PS No one mentioned Carter Wong? That dude is hard core, created his own system and promotes full contact fighting. Ken Lo would be another guy that I would count as a master. Here's my qualification- a master knows the ins and outs of what he is teaching, and can prove it in the ring or on the street. Not just some guy that you have to serve tea and shows you a bunch of techniques that work if you are compliant.

Here is a match between two "masters" who have never sparred before-

Of Course.

Carter Wong's Biography

Known Names:

Carter Wong, Huang Jia Da, Wong Ka Tat, Wong Chia Tat, Carter Huang,

Patrick Wong, Carter, Jia-da, Ka-tat, Chia-tat, Patrick

Carter was born in Macau in 1947 and started learning traditional Chinese Kung Fu since he was 8 years old. Carter began his training under the Principal of Shaolin Monk and the Grand Master of Wudang Chi-Kung. But besides Chinese Kung Fu, Master Wong later also went and trained in Japan, Thailand and korea by the Masters of Karate, Muay-Thai, Taekwondo and Hapkido.

Grand Master Carter Wong founded the International Chung Hop Kuen World Federation. Chung Hop Kuen is his own style of martial arts based on Chinese Kung Fu mixed with Muay-Thai, Taekwondo, Hapkido and Karate. It is represented in many countries around the world including China, America, Canada, Australia and Europe. He has started branches in South America, South-East Asia and it is represented in 36 countries (last updated).

GD Y-Y

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

Chiu Chi Ling

Thanks clfnole.

GD Y-Y

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

Chiu Chi Ling

Chiu Chi-ling

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Chiu Chi Ling

Chinese name 趙志淩 (traditional)

Pinyin Zhào Zhìlíng (Mandarin)

Jyutping Ziu6 Zi3ling4 (Cantonese)

Born 1943 (age 70–71)

Hong Kong, China

Occupation Actor, martial arts teacher

Years active 1978–2013

Chiu Chi Ling (Chinese: 趙志淩; Jyutping: ziu6 zi3 ling4; born 1943) is an actor that appears mostly in Kung Fu style movies produced in Hong Kong. He also teaches Hung Gar Kung Fu at Chiu Chi Ling Hung Gar Kung Fu Association, a San Francisco-based martial arts school he founded, and at the old Chiu Family Kwoon in Hong Kong. Every year he visits his students and grand students around the world and organizes worldwide Kung Fu tournaments. The Kung Fu lineage he is part of was passed down directly from southern shaolin temple and carries names like Hung Hei Gung and Wong Fei Hung.

He has appeared in over 70 movies, both as an actor and stunt man. His abilities as an actor and martial arts practitioner has allowed him to work with most of the top Hong Kong film makers including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow.

He started practising Hung Gar Kung Fu when he was six years old under the tutelage of his father Chiu Kau (who won with the famous tiger-crane set over the whole of China in his sixties) and mother Shiu Ying, who were renowned for their solid Hung Gar. They were also both well-known doctors and Chiu Chi Ling learned from his father, beside the art of Kung Fu, the art of bone setting (Dit-Da).

In the early 1970s, he opened a school which attracted many celebrities, athletes and performers. This exposure to the entertainment industry gave him his start in acting. He has appeared in such well-known Kung Fu style movies as Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Duel of the Seven Tigers, the comic smash-hit Kung Fu Hustle, and Adventures of Power.

GD Y-Y

[kungfusamurai]

I didn't see his name mentioned, but Whang Ing Sik is a Grandmaster in Hapkido.

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

I didn't see his name mentioned, but Whang Ing Sik is a Grandmaster in Hapkido.

TRUE.

Thanks KFS.

GD Y-Y

[DrNgor]

I didn't see his name mentioned, but Whang Ing Sik is a Grandmaster in Hapkido.

I mentioned him here:

I'm going to guess that the Korean actors (Huang In-Sik, Ji Hon-Jae, and the aforementioned Hwang Jang Lee and Tan Tao Liang, among others) were all masters.