Formerly known as the Borders Wing Chun Group (BWCG), it was founded in 1996 to offer training in Wing Chun Kuen, which translates "beautiful/eternal springtime boxing'.
Created by a nun at China's famous Shaolin Temple, it is a direct, aggressive self-defence style that uses short, straight strikes right to the centreline of an opponent's body.
In the first 13 years of the Border club's life, its students trained under the guidance of two instructors. Master Samuel Kwok was instructor for the first three years and he was followed by 10 years under the tutelage of Master Paul O'Neal and his Advanced Fighting Systems organisation.
However, at the start of 2009, the Borders students switched allegiance to a new instructor, Master Lee Yeung, of Newcastle and reconstituted their club as the Borders branch of his Wing Chun Self-Protection organisation.
Master Yeung was one of Master O'Neal's top instructors and continues to pass on the purest form of Wing Chun as transmitted from the late legendary grandmaster Yip Man – the teacher of Bruce Lee – through his son Yip Ching to Master O'Neal and thence to Master Yeung and his students.
But while the high standard of kung fu may remain the same, Master Yeung has introduced stricter selection criteria for potential members of the club, seeking only those prepared to devote a certain amount of time and effort to learning what he considers to be one of the great treasures of Chinese culture.
His organisation is kept small so that there is a high level of attention to quality of instruction for the students.
At a Borders seminar at the weekend, he told TheSouthern he wanted the Borders club to grow.
"I am here as a sifu (teacher) thanks to a long line of genuine kung fu martial artists. In the time I have been fortunate enough to both study and teach Wing Chun, I have come to believe that, not only is it good for your health, but when practised properly it works effectively.
"My aim for the training class in the Borders is to help it develop and grow and give more people in the Borders the opportunity to learn what I believe to be one of the purest and most effective of all martial arts."
Wing Chun Self Protection (Scottish Borders branch) holds regular classes at Bowden Village Hall, near Melrose. For more details telephone Master Yeung on 07521 726433 or his Borders-based assistant instructor on 07788 192080.