i’d buy testerday a video of the international kung fu championship tounament 2000 . congratulations for you performance and your school’s performance .
Wah lum and john wai students also are great .
how are the names of the forms you and maste li siu hung showed .
i see a part of ping kuen in the master li 's demostration and the begginning was like traditional bak siu lum .
was a entery for or a mixture of forms ?
the legs of master li have a great elegance making stances .
and you , well you know how good you are .
congratulations !!!
i’ d see the video of tat wong of ping kuen and i believe is the same form you show in the tournament . but a short version .
there are a siu ping kuen like others short versions of choy lay fut forms ?
Thanks for the compliments, Master Li’s stances are pretty awesome, we call him Spiderman because of his flexilbility and movement. He performed a mixture of his favorite movement of various forms, the beginning has parts of Won Hop Kuen, a combination fist form developed by Grandmaster Shek Kin (Mr. Han from “Enter the Dragon” with Bruce Lee.
That was the master’s demonstration, not sure if you thought he was competing. I performed Siu Ping Kuen, but at the end put a small part of Ping Jahn Kuen that I like alot. It was alot of work that tournament a very large, have a feeling Wah Lum will wait a while before they host a tournament of that size, lol.
As far as I know, only 2 forms are taught long and short in our school, 1. Siu Ping Kuen & Dai Ping Kuen, 2. Siu Sup Gee Kow Da & Dai Sup Gee Kow Da
I believe it is the same as Master Tat Wongs, but he likes to do the same as my sifu, add his favorite parts.
Dai Ping Kuen uses the old style long beginning like Sup Gee Kow Dah. It has a small portion not included in Siu Ping Kuen that occurs just prior to opening to the right turning and then applying the cum jayung.
At the end where you do sow choy, gaw choy you then turn into a fahn jong choy (uppercut) and another section begins ending kind of similar to Sup Gee however with a couple of kong jayung’s.
The form is not quite as long as Sup Gee but it is a bit longer or nearly the same as Ping Chan Kuen.
Yes, I know Dai Ping Kuen. I think Lee Koon Hung teaches it after the student has trained some time, some of my sihings don’t know the long version. It’s a nice form.
I saw previously on your webpage (Lee Koon Hung page) what your surname is (I hope I have the right person - your initials name and surname is LS right?).
Few days ago I met someone that comes from the states with the same surname. It seems to me like a pretty unusual surname, so I was wondering if you are related. His Name is David. We just briefly met at a kung fu function. I was introduced to the guy, and it kept puzzling me where I heard this name. only untill after the event I remembered.
Anyways, not important. I just thought that if you were related I could invite him around sometime - Home cook food is better than hotel food. We are all kung fu family.
Not me my initials are LZ. Must have been someone else. However I appreciate your kindness. Li Siu Hung and Joe said everyone down in South Africa were real nice and you just proved it.
Keep on training and carry on the Lee Koon Hung tradition.
i’d just like to say that tournament 2000 was my favorite tournament since NACMAF. The competition was the highest level i’d seen in the advanced divisions (southern) in a while, although jimmy wong’s tai ji legacy comes in a not too distant second. Even though i did not place in any divisions, i still had a good time and felt that at least my handset form was okay and at least my classmate did well and competed for grandchampion so our school i think represented well. I had never really known how popular choy lay fut was in this country until then. Even though I had been to Sifu Lee Koon Hung’s Ft Lauderdale school grand opening. I haven’t seen the video yet, I would like to watch the masters demonstrations again since my seat was so high and far away. Its cool to see how clf students from all over constantly converse on this forum and in person at tournaments and special occasions, I hope some day our Hung Fut schools will grow to be as widespread, our schools are few and far between but we are strong and growing. I hope more tournaments like 2000 become more common. The Wah Lum people really did an excellent promotion with more prestigeous sifu then perhaps I’ve ever seen at a tournament.
Also to Sifu Li Siu Hung, Joe Keit, and the rest, I don’t know if you saw my other post on another thread but belated congradulations and luck to you and your school and families.
i’d see in the video the southern staff demostration of your school . very pretty cool . i always read about master tai yim and hung fut history but never see forms of your style . i think must be great . you guys got a white hired devil in his linaje . i’d read a interwiev with chan tai san ( choy lay fut and lama kuen master ) that when he was a kid follow the white hired devil for learning hung fut , but he don 't wannna teach his style . so , he was tired of be follow for the kid and both make a compromise , white hired devil was famous for his left handed staff , so both going to fight with staff and after the fight the kid ( chan tai san ) must got to remember the techniques white hired devil use in the fight . if the kid remember every technique he promise teach him but if he don’t , the kid promise leave him alone .
white hired devil use 13 differents techniques but master chan can remember and show him the techniques , so after that white hired devil cursed him but got to teach him hung fut .
i think is a nice history . white hired devil was one of the most famous southern fighters .
Yes, I am really glad that I stumbled into the Hung Fut system. I never knew anything about any martial arts before hand, I thought it was pretty hokey even though I loved action theatre on the weekends and like any other unfamiliar to the martial world, thought bruce lee was the end all and be all. Chinese martial arts has truly changed my life and my self and I am lucky and proud to be a student of Hung Fut under my Sifu Tai Yim. It’s amazing to learn about Hung Chiu Shing, Bok Mo Chiu the white haired devil. Many styles have individuals along thier lineages that really really stand out, Si Jo Hung Chiu Shing is ours. He became most famous for his mad devil staff and four crippled forms, they are the highest forms in our system, only one person knows them, he is the jung mun of the Hung Fut system. My sifu and the school respect Sifu Chan Tai San very much as he is a link to our past and a true traditional master.
To Joe, I’ll be looking forward to catching you guys at the next tournament. Although I think my si-je Phung will not compete anymore ( she was the female traditional grandchampion at tournament 2000 ) which is too bad, it was awesome to watch the competition between her and the girl from Sifu John Wai’s school. Tournament 2000 was awesome in general, I just hope they can shorten the time between events cuz our division was huge in every event and I would get all this lactic acid build up in my legs after the opening event from being so stagnant. Anyways I’ll see ya when I see ya