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Sifu Haji Mahmood has
studied many different styles through his development including Western Boxing
at the age of nine, three years of Tae Kwon Do and six years of Muai Thai,
before finally finding Wing Chun in 1993.
Haji studied hard and in
1997 was rewarded by being allowd to run his own class in Rotherham. However,
for reasons he never discusses, he felt he had to continue his search for an
instructor to help him develop further. That search led him to contact Sifu
Shaun Rawcliffe of the Midlands Wing Chun Kuen, senior western instructor of
Wing Chun's grandmaster, Ip Chun.
Since their first meeting
in 2001, Haji has regularly trained both at classes and privately with Sifu
Rawcliffe and in 2003, having retrained the complete Wing Chun system, he was
given permission to set up the Y.W.C.K. branch of the Midlands Wing Chun Kuen
Association.
Haji's dedication and love
of Wing Chun has never waivered, he still regularly trains with Sifu Rawcliffe
and has accompanied him twice to Hong Kong to meet and train with Sifu
Rawcliffe's teacher, grandmaster Ip Chun.
Ip Chun is the eldest son
of the late and legendary Grandmaster Yip Man (Bruce Lee's teacher and said to
be the founder of modern day Wing Chun). As tradition dictates, after learning
his Father's skills Ip Chun decided to pass them down to his select students
including Sifu Shaun Rawcliffe and now through his student, Sifu Haji Mahmood,
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