Hi everyone,
My name is Joe Keit, head instructor at the Lee Koon Hung Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu Association in Florida. I have been away for a little bit, but have read up on all the Choy Lay Fut posts.
My first sifu was Lee Koon Hung, and now Li Siu Hung, and we are from the Hung Sing branch. I have found everything discussed very interesting and again have learned more from your topics.
I am not one to really care or get into the history of our style too much, but I had to study our history and help translate for Master Li for an article he and I wrote in a magazine once. At our school, our history is taught similar to the Singapore Hung Sing Kwoon.
When I did my research, which was done through many old magazines from Hong Kong (Chan Family & Hung Sing) as well as other sources through elders through my sifu, the stories were all off in different directions.
I then realized like always, it is impossible to know the absolute truth. So when writing the article, I went about it in a speculative way, which is what we really only can do with history.
Frank, Joseph and all the CLF brothers have made this site very interesting, and made everyone think, that is good. But as your CLF brother, I would recommend everyone make their statements stating, my records found this…, or I was taught this…, Or there are a few versions of the same story…
We can only look at these stories for inspiration, and a link to the past. Chan Heung and Jeung Yim were both very intelligent masters in order to develop such a system of high martial art, and I am priveledged to study CLF.
I know I can speak on behalf of CLFNole and other Lee Koon Hung people. One day we hopefully can get together and learn more from each other.
But as always it’s a pleasure to read all your posts, it’s nice to comunicate with people all over who have the same interests.
Peace be with you!
Joe Keit
