Sifu Garry Mckenzie
Branch name
Headquarters HackneyBranch number
07831 505 937School address
Wing Chun School HQ, St. Thomas's Church Crypt, Old Hill Street, Clapton Common, Hackney, London - MapClass details
Tuesday: 8.00pm - 10.00pm
Thursday: 8.00pm - 10.00pm
Womens Classes Please contact Sifu Julie for information
Childrens Class:
Tuesday: 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Sifu Garry teaches at the Headquarters in Hackney, North - East London, and also teaches privately. His Martial Arts training began in 1976 with Tae Kwon Do, and then later Western Boxing. He began training in Wing Chun in 1982 at the age of 17, at the Wing Chun Martial Arts Academy. By 1985 he was already assistant instructor at the headquarters in Albany Street London NW1, and represented the Wing Chun Martial Arts Academy in a number of demonstrations and seminars in London and abroad. In 1987 Sifu Garry opened his first school under the Wing Chun Martial Arts Academy, followed by another in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, England.
1990 was a turning point in his Wing Chun career & The Wing Chun School was born, and in 1994 Sifu Garry started his studies of the Cantonese dialect of Chinese, which brought him into contact with a number of visiting Wing Chun Masters who could not speak English. This led to invitations to train in Hong Kong where he completed his training in Ip Man's Ving Tsun Kung Fu under the tutelage of Grand Master Ip Ching, son of Great Grand Master Ip Man.
In June 1999 Sifu Garry was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Salford, and in November of that year he represented the Ving Tsun Athletic Association performing demonstrations at the 1st World Wing Chun Conference held in Fatsan, China.




