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Tony has been training in Wing Chun since 1979 and was awarded a Master Level certification in 2005. Sifu Massengill is a Life Member & Instructor under the Ving Tsun Athletic Association of Hong Kong. Sifu Tony is the author of several books on Wing Chun as well as numerous published articles
He served as the Senior U.S. Director of the Traditional Ip Man Wing Chun Association, which represents the Ip Man - Ip Chun / Ip Ching - Samuel Kwok lineage, until May of 2010.
Massengill is the Owner and Director of MASS Martial Arts in Yorktown, Virginia and conducts Seminars and Instructor Training throughout the United States. Sifu Massengill's first book "Mastering Wing Chun - The Keys to Ip Man's Kung Fu" is placed in the Ip Man Museum in Foshan, China.
Sifu Tony Massengill has spent the last 30+ years in the study and research of Ip Man's fighting method. He has trained
and researched the system with several of Ip Man's direct students, including Ip Man's own sons, Grandmaster Ip
Chun and Ip Ching, in who's lineage Massengill received a Master Level certification, through their senior disciple,
Master Samuel Kwok.
The Wing Chun Massengill teaches is multi-faceted. The foundation is the Ip Man Traditional Method. After the
student has become well grounded in this method, they are introduced to some of the modifications and nuances
that some of Ip Man's students developed.
In Massengill's words "I have learned a lot during my training and research into the Wing Chun system. Some of the
teachers I have trained with have had some very unique ideas about the use and application of Wing Chun. Despite the
fact that they had trained with the same instructor (Ip Man) they have developed their Wing Chun in very different ways.
I personally don't treat any method as if it was handed down on stone tablets from God himself. There are Many ways of
training and applying Wing Chun...and many of them have merit! I teach a combination of these methods.
Basically I am attempting to teach the Best Wing Chun I am capable of teaching based on all I have learned up until the
present. However, I am a student first and an Instructor second. So I still continue in my research and am adding to my
personal knowledge daily. As I learn something useful, it is added to my teaching curriculum."
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