Jason Lau

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Jason Lau
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
Notable school(s) Jason Lau Wing Chun Kung Fu Training Center
Website www.jasonlau-wingchun.com

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

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

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

Jason Lau learned Wing Chun from Jiu Wan. Jiu Wan, according to Jason Lau, was Kung Fu brothers with Yip 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]

References

  1. ↑ "Lineage". Wingchun Team Italia. Retrieved 15 March 2009. 
  2. ↑ 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. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Werbell Attorneys Drafting Defense". The Law Offices of Edwin Marger - Drug Trial. Marietta Daily Journal. Retrieved 1 March 2009. 
  4. ↑ Clark Thornton. "The History of Our Wing Chun Clan". The Great Lion Wooden Dummy Company. Retrieved 1 March 2009. 
  5. ↑ "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 ..." 
  6. ↑ "Teen-Agers In Atlanta Told Of 'Terrorist Raid'". The New York Times. 8 February 1987. Retrieved 5 May 2010. 
  7. ↑ "Alan Goldberg: 2004 Kung Fu Artist of the Year". Black Belt Magazine. November 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2009. 
  8. ↑ "Wing Chun History". Jason Lau Wing Chun Kung Fu Training Center. Retrieved 1 March 2009. 
  9. ↑ "Lau Yat Wing Chun - The Academy". Lau Yat Wing Chun. Retrieved 1 March 2009. 
  10. ↑ "Michael Militano Wing Chun Kung-Fu - Instructor". Michael Militano Wing Chun Kung-Fu. Retrieved 1 March 2009. 
  11. ↑ "Master Louis Oscar". Louis Oscar Wing Chun Kung Fu. Retrieved 1 March 2009. 
  12. ↑ Nishimura, Akko (April 1999). "Francis Fong: Teaching old arts to a new generation". Inside KungFu Magazine. 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." 
  13. ↑ http://www.wingchunkuen.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=118

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