Ho Kam-ming (Chinese: 何金銘, 12 December 1925 – 9 April 2020)[1][2] was a Macanese-born Canadian martial artist. He was one of the students of martial arts teacher Ip Man in the discipline of Wing Chun.
| Ho Kam-ming | |||||||||||
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| Born | 12 December 1925 Portuguese Macau | ||||||||||
| Died | (aged 94) Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||
| Native name | 何金銘 | ||||||||||
| Residence | Toronto | ||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||
| Style | Wing Chun | ||||||||||
| Teacher(s) | Ip Man | ||||||||||
| Rank | Grandmaster | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Martial arts practitioner | ||||||||||
| Notable students | Augustine Fong, Randy Williams, Lui Ming-fai | ||||||||||
| Notable club(s) | World Ho Kam Ming Wing Chun Association | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 何金銘 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 何金铭 | ||||||||||
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Life edit
He was born in Macau in 1925. When he was 30, he started learning Wing Chun and became Ip Man's formal student.[3][4][5][6][7] In Ip Ching's memoirs My Father Ip Man, Ho was described as one of Ip Man's "excellent disciples". Ho was cultivated by Ip Man, later, he inherited Ip's wish to further develop Wing Chun.[8]
In 1960, he returned to Macau and opened the first Wing Chun school there.[9]
He migrated to Canada in 1990. He settled in Toronto, where he founded the World Ho Kam Ming Wing Chun Association and was still active teaching.[10] In 2011, he also started to teach Wing Chun in Zhuhai.[11][10]
He was one of a handful of men to be taught the complete system from Ip Man, most of the notable Wing Chun practitioners in Macau were his students.[12] His notable students include: Augustine Fong (Fong Chi-wing), founder of Fong's Wing Chun Gung Fu Federation;[9] Randy Williams, founder of Close Range Combat Academy; and Lui Ming-fai (雷明輝).;[10] Master Kiet Pham, founder of Bamboo Forest Wingchun;[13]
On 9 April 2020, Ho Kam-ming died from COVID-19 in Toronto, aged 94.[10][14][12]
References edit
- ^ "葉問弟子何金銘染新冠肺炎 在加拿大不幸去世-體育新聞-新浪新聞中心".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "叶问弟子何金铭染新冠肺炎 在加拿大不幸去世". hzscq.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ wing chun Archived 2020-05-19 at the Wayback Machine(in Portuguese)
- ^ Wing Chun Kung Fu "Crônica da Vida de Grão-Mestre"(in Portuguese)
- ^ Ho Kam-ming 何金銘
- ^ Biography of Grand Master Ho Kam-ming
- ^ Ho Kam Ming Wing Chun: from the Eyes of Sifu Kiet Pham
- ^ Samuel Kwok (2014). The Weapons of Wing Chun. Lulu.com. p. 12. ISBN 9781326069735.
- ^ a b "The Origin and Development of WING CHUN". Black Belt. 16 (1): 91. January 1978. ISSN 0277-3066.
- ^ a b c d "【詠春】葉問詠春澳門第一人 何金銘師傅因新冠肺炎逝世 享年96" (in Chinese). HK01. 2020-04-10.
- ^ 葉問徒弟何金銘 珠海開館傳“詠春”[permanent dead link](in Chinese)
- ^ a b "咏春名家何金铭感染新冠逝世 系叶问十大弟子之一" (in Chinese). sina. 2020-04-11.
- ^ "Home". bambooforestwingchun.com.
- ^ "葉問親傳弟子染新冠肺炎病逝！ 何金銘享耆壽96歲" (in Chinese). ETtoday. 2020-04-11.