Siu Nim Tao form with Jason Lau, Chu Shong-Tin and Wong Shun Leung

My Sigung, Grandmaster Jason Lau performing the second part of Siu Nim Tao with the late Chu Shong Tin and Wong Shun Leung in the Houston Kung-Fu tournament in 1998. Video was uploaded courtesy of and with permission by Grandmaster Jason Lau.

Grandmaster Jason Lau is a martial arts practitioner of Wing Chun Kung Fu and is recognized as the Grandmaster of the Jiu Wan (招允) branch.

Jason Lau studied Wing Chun under Si-Jo Jiu Wan 招允 (Chiu Wan) and was a direct student under him for many years.

He worked as the "resident martial-arts master" in at the Cobray International Counter-Terrorist Training camp of Ret. General Mitchell Livingston WerBell III, an "old boys club" member of the clandestine United States Intelligence Community in Powder Springs, GA. WerBell had an established history with the CIA and other clandestine governmental agencies. At Cobray International, security forces for Lyndon LaRouche were trained. Jason Lau's experience reportedly allowed him "to walk...across ceilings like a human fly, remain crouched in a motionless position for hours while waiting for his prey, jump higher than people's heads; and pause, bird-like, suspended in the air," according to Eagle magazine. In 1987 Jason Lau helped stage a mock terrorist raid on a synagogue in Atlanta.

According to Grandmaster Lau, both Jiu Wan and Yip Man were Kung Fu brothers. Both Yip Man and Jiu Wan studied under Chan Wah Shun at the Jing Mo Gwun, a school in Foshan, China. When the Communists took over China, he moved to Hong Kong where he continued to teach.

Yip Man had already established a school in Hong Kong when Jiu Wan came. Since there was a rule that there can never be two teachers in the same style or in other words no two teachers equal in skill teaching in the same area. Jiu Wan often visited his friend and had tea together. Jiu Wan eventually opened a school in Hong Kong, with Yip Man's blessings.

On September 11, 2012, Sigung Jason Lau went on an interview for ucwradio, an online entertainment magazine, and vehemently stated that Jiu Wan never studied under Yip Man considering the idea as a "bizarre thing". Plus he also stated that he specified "very clearly" to Wong Shun Leung and Hawkins Cheung (notable Yip Man's students, who were at this tournament) that Jiu Wan NEVER was a student of Yip Man.

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