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Master Phillip Redmond's martial arts career started after his first of two tours in Vietnam. After his first tour he was stationed in Okinawa. While he was stationed there he had the opportunity to study with Eizo Shimabuku in Shorin-Ryu (Okinawan karate). After 4 years of duty in the Marine Corps (USMC), Master Redmond was honorably discharged in 1970 and then he moved to New York City.
After moving to NYC 1970 Master Redmond started training in Fu Jow Pai (Tiger Claw) under Grandmaster Wai Hong. During the same year he was introduced to Wing Chun by a friend.
After a period of time Master Redmond, started training under Sifu Duncan Leung. When Duncan Leung left NYC to move to Virginia, Master Redmond, studied under a succession of Wing Chun instructors in NYC's Chinatown. Master Redmond studied under prominent instructors such as Sifu Lee Moy Shan, Sifu Alan Lamb, Sifu Henry Leung, and Sifu Moy Yat. In 1983, Master Redmond saw an ad for a seminar being in held in Los Angeles, CA. he immediately bought plane tickets and flew to California for two weeks. During those two weeks, he realized that the Wing Chun he learned prior to the seminar was a shadow of what Grandmaster Cheung was teaching. From that point on, Master Redmond gave up his instructor standing in a previous Wing Chun style and started as a beginner in Grandmaster Cheung's Wing Chun. Master Redmond became a sifu in GM Cheung's system in 1991, earned his provisional Master rank in 1994 and was promoted to Master rank in 2004.
During Master Redmond's training in Wing Chun in NYC, he also studied many other styles. A list of the styles he has studied or has a working knowledge of are: Hung Ga kung fu under Sifu Bill Chung of Chinatown's Hung Mun, Baat Gua from Sifu Kenny Gong, Bak Mei, Seven-Star Praying Mantis, Juk Lum, Vee-Jitsu te from Professor Florendo Visitacion, and Aiki-Jujitsu from Sensei Robert "Sugar" Crosson. Sort of an anomoly, Master Redmond speaks Cantonese and is learning Mandarin which has given him a deeper understanding of the arts. Master Redmond has earned a black belt in AikiJiu Jitsu and Kobudo from Sensei Ronald Duncan. Yoel Judah, the US kickboxing champion, trained Master Redmond for his first full contact bout which he won.
In 1989 Master Redmond moved to New Haven, CT and started the Yale University
Wing Chun Kung Fu Club. From 1990 to 1994 Yale University's Physical Education
Department hired Sifu Redmond to teach Wing Chun. In 1995 Sifu Redmond moved to
Detroit. In July 2006 Master Redmond moved to the North American headquarters in
Southern New Jersey. He left the Detroit school in the care of Provisional
Master Carmelino Guiao.
Master Phillip Redmond
Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu Academy of Michigan
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