Jason Lau

Jason Lau grew up in Hong Kong in a martial arts family. Both his mother and father were performers and martial artists in the famous Chinese Opera. Lau’s mother trained him in the Northern Shaolin style from the time he could walk, and drilled him constantly.

When he was about 12, he started training with Jiu Wan in secret, fearful that his mother would discover that he was training in another style. Lau trained with Jiu Wan until the age of nineteen, when he left for America.

He moved to Brooklyn and opened his own school. He used his Wing Chun skills to defend his neighborhood and soon became appreciated as a vigilante, both by the shopkeepers and the police.

General Mitchell WerBell III recruited Lau to teach hand to hand combat at his camp in Powder Springs, Georgia. Lau became the camp’s chief instructor and the General’s personal bodyguard.

After General WerBell’s death in 1983, Lau again opened a school, this time in Smyrna, Georgia.

In the early 1990s, Lau realized his dream of building a Wing Chun temple.