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Bow-sim Mark
Chinese martial artist
In this Chinese name, the family name is Mark.
Bow-sim Mark (born 1942) is a Chinese martial arts grandmaster who lives in Newton, Massachusetts, US.[1] She is the mother of martial arts film star, Donnie Yen.
Training
Mark was born in Guangzhou, Republic of China in 1942. She began studying martial arts at elementary school, training seriously in high school and then at Wushu training schools, specialising in tai chi and Northern Shaolin. Mark learned Fu-Style Wudangquan by training under Fu Wing Fay for 10 years; Wing Fay was the eldest son and top student of Grandmaster Fu Chen Sung. She was an instructor at Wing Fay's school from 1968 to 1974.[2]
Career
After living for years in Hong Kong, Mark emigrated to Brighton, Massachusetts in 1975, and founded the Chinese Wushu Research Institute in July 1976.[3][4] She still teaches and performs in the Boston area. She was one of the first to provide Chinese wushu instruction in the West,[5] and is credited with populari
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Who is Bow Sim Mark?
As the teacher of Yen Ji Dan, the sole peer of Li Lianjie, it cannot be denied that Bow Sim Mark has stature in Chinese Martial arts equal to Wu Bin, one of her only peers as a teacher. The two earlier peers of Wu and Mark, similarly, produced the most famous Chinese martial artists in history, all with global reputations. No other teachers can make this claim. Mark is the only one who taught in the United States.
You can read more about Bow Sim Mark on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow-sim_MarkBow Sim Mark is considered one of the most influential martial artists of the 20th century.
National Champion Bow Sim Mark, the Grande Dame of Wu Dang and the First Lady of American Wushu
See: Boston Globe, 3/13/2001; The New Wu Shu, Black Belt, April 1978; also Black Belt, December 1975
"Ten years, ten hours a day."¹ This is a Chinese name; the family name is Mark. Bow-sim Mark (traditional Chinese: 麥寶嬋; simplified Chinese: 麦宝婵; pinyin: Mài Bǎochán; Cantonese Yale: Mahk Bóu Sìhm) is a martial arts master (or sifu) who lives in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.[1] Mark is originally from Guangzhou, China. She began studying martial arts at elementary school, training seriously in high school and then at Wu Shu training schools, specialising in T'ai chi ch'uan and Northern Shaolin. Mark learned Fu Style Wudangquan by training under Fu Wing Fay for 10 years; Wing Fay was the eldest son and top student of Grandmaster Fu Chen Sung. She was an instructor at Wing Fay's school from 1968-74.[2] Mark emigrated to Brighton, Massachusetts in 1975, after living for a year in Hong Kong, and founded the Chinese Wushu Research Institute in July 1976.[3][4] She still teaches and performs in the Boston area. She was one of the first to provide Chinese wushu instruction in the West.[5] She gave the first demonstration of Combined Tai Chi Chuan in the United States, an
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