To all: It is with great sorrow, but abiding great love, honor, and respect, and after over 42 years as his student, Texas Mike, that Birds of Prey Kung Fu and Tai Chi announce the passing of our beloved Sifu, Sigung, and Father Grandmaster Yee Shum Leung (1937-2025). This great man passed on July 4, 2025, after over 51 years teaching thousands of students in NYC. Our Sifu was kind, compassionate, tough, wise, and one of the greatest Chinese martial arts teachers of the last 100 years. At this time, we at Birds of Prey, with a deep bow of respect, wish to also offer our condolences to our Simo, his loyal and wonderful wife, to his son, to his son’s wife, and to his two granddaughters. May Sifu’s legacy, memory, and greatness continue in all of us, his children and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, for eternity!