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William Moy Author

William Moy has been a Kung Fu Sifu for over a quarter of a century to more than several thousand students. His lineage is of the highest martial pedigree. William’s father, Moy Yat, was an elite student and confidant of the famed Yip Man, the protagonist of four major film releases grossing over $240-miliion combined. Moy Yat was also a junior student to Bruce Lee during that period in China.William is currently the titular head of slightly over seventy schools. In the US—New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia, Washington DC, California, Texas, Nebraska, New Jersey, and Georgia. Internationally, there are several schools spanning the width of Canada, a pair in Brazil, one in Mexico and one in Spain.

Paul Volponi is the multi-award-winning author and journalist of nearly twentybooks. His work is read in countless schools (universities, high school and middle schools) and English classes across this country. He has been the recipient of a dozen American Library Association honors, and a sought after speaker at professional conferences. His novel Black and White is read alongside To Kill A Mockingbird in many classrooms, while his novel The Final Four is a perennial read by many institutions in conjunction with the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. Paul has held press credentials since 1996 and has written major pieces on luminaries ranging from Alfred G. Vanderbilt to George Steinbrenner to Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob). Paul has written alongside and shared the stories of Kentucky Derby-winning jockeys, adolescent inmates on Rikers Island (the world’s biggest jail), and people who sought shelter in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. He is recognized for his riveting narrative voice in both fiction and non-fiction.