Jim Fung's
first martial art was Tai Chi, but he changed to Wing
Chun after witnessing a fight in which a classmate
learning the art easily overpowered a school bully. He
began his training under Tsui Seung
Tin in 1960 and has been training continuously ever
since.
As a teenager, he was sent to Australia to study and
began training a small group of friends in his backyard.
This led to the establishment of his first training
centre, the International Wing Chun Academy, in Adelaide
in 1973. A few years later, encouraged by growing
enrolments and the necessity to expand, Grandmaster Fung
relinquished his administrative position with the South
Australian Government to work at Wing Chun full-time. He
now operates Australia's largest martial arts concern
with more than 20 branches in three states and
franchises overseas.
Grandmaster Fung continues to train in Wing Chun and
maintains his links with the Hong Kong Wing Chun
Association, of which he was appointed a life director
in 1975. He was conferred the title of Grandmaster (Si
Gung) by Great Grandmaster (Si Tai Gung) Tsui in 1999.
 Over
the years, Grandmaster Fung has been the subject of
countless media articles, television and radio programs.
He is known as The Man With The One-Inch Punch, a
technique in which his fist, placed just one inch from
his target, can send a person reeling backwards three
metres or more. The technique is powered by Wing Chun's
'determination force'
(or chi) which is a method of drawing all available
energy from the body to explode on a simple point at
impact.
Grandmaster Fung is the author of two books, Wing Chun
(published in 1981) and The Authentic Wing Chun Weapons
(1984), the former now in its fourth printing, and in
1985 produced a teaching video, Wing Chun. The video was
awarded five-star rating by leading American martial
arts magazine, Inside Kung Fu.
In 1988, Grandmaster Fung
was chosen as the sole representative of Australian kung
fu to participate in the International Grandmasters
Exhibition held in Adelaide during the South Australian
bicentennial celebrations.
He has received many other accolades but says the best
acknowledgement of all was having his Academy officially
recognised by the Chinese Government and world ruling
body for Chinese martial arts in the All Chinese Martial
Arts Register published in 1998. The honour was shared
with only two other martial arts schools from outside
China.
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