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Jimmy H Woo
Chin Moon Don's great-great grandson Chin Siu Dek (later renamed Jimmy H. Woo) began his Kung Fu training at age five, doing forms in the village marketplace for money to buy candy.
By age twenty one, Chin Siu Dek was considered a formidable fighter in a country where most confrontations ended in crippling or death. In fact, it was his reputation that finally forced his family to send him to America in the early half of this century.
In 1931, Jimmy Woo became the first man to bring Kung Fu to the West. He taught in Los Angeles Chinatown and became quite reknown, and in 1958 he opened a school in El Monte, California. Since then until his death in 1991, Grandmaster Woo taught thousands what many consider the purest and most brutally effective fighting style surviving today.
As Grandmaster Woo said "Best defense is run if I can. I don't want to kill unless I have no choice... Life is more important than anything on this planet."
   
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