Nguyễn Văn Chiếu Nguyễn Văn Chiếu Nguyễn Văn Chiếu (born 4 November 1949 in Sài Gòn, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese grand master of martial arts. He has been the Chief of Vovinam Council since 27 September 2015. His father is Nguyễn Văn Ba (1926-2014). Nguyễn Văn Chiếu started practicing Vovinam under the guidance of master Lê Sáng in 1965, when he was 16 years old. In 1967, after 3 years of hard practice, he got 3-dan black belt and became a master of martial arts. In 1969, he started to teach Vovinam at Quy Nhơn city in Bình Định province. Bình Định is
Vovinam even further. The 5th to 10th degree blackbelt are shown as a completed red belt with 1 to 6 white stripes. <nowiki> </nowiki>White stands for the infiniteness, the bones; is the symbol of the depth of the spirit. The white belt assigns the master the absolute mastery of Vovinam Việt Võ Đạo. On the white belt thin, lengthwise stripes in blue, black, yellow and red symbolize the whole of Vovinam (Việt Võ Đạo) again. This belt is reserved for the "Chưởng Môn". Now, Vovinam has two different sets of belt ranking because of the different training program: The WVVF Vovinam