Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu
02/05/2011 - Chinese New Year Demonstration at the Forks Market Square.
- Good job on the Chinese New Year Demonstration everyone! Keep up the hard training!
- Classes will be officially starting at our new location (Cultural Center in Chinatown) on Monday, February 7.
- Classes will be every Monday from 6 - 8 PM.
Choy Li Fut was named to honor the Buddhist monk Choy Fook (Cai Fu) who taught him Choy Gar, Li Yau-San who taught him Li Gar, and his uncle Chan Yuen-Wu who taught him Fut Gar, to honor the Buddha after which the art was named.
The system combines the martial arts techniques from various Northern and Southern Chinese kung-fu systems; the powerful arm and hand techniques from the Shaolin animal forms from the South, combined with the extended, circular movements, twisting body, and agile footwork that characterizes Northern China's martial arts. It is considered an external style, combining soft and hard techniques as well as incorporating a wide range of weapons as part of its curriculum. Choy Li Fut is an effective self defense system particularly noted for defense against multiple attackers. It contains a wide variety of techniques, including long and short range punches, kicks, sweeps and take downs, pressure point attacks, joint locks, and grappling. According to Bruce Lee:
"Choy Li Fut is the most effective system that I've seen for fighting more than one person. [It] is one of the most difficult styles to attack and defend against. Choy Li Fut is the only style [of kung fu] that traveled to Thailand to fight the Thai boxers and hadn't lost."
CHOY LEE FUT - TECHNIQUES
Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu is famous for its long arm technique, granite fists whipped through the air at the end of loose and supple arms. The power of Choy Lee Fut comes from a balanced stance that uses the hip as a motor, causing the waist to turn with each movement.
Choy Lee Fut is a complete martial arts system. It stresses fast stance transition coordinated with powerful combinations of swinging fists, punches, animal strikes, kicks, grabs and throws. The Choy Lee Fut practitioner moves with the confidence of the legendary dragon, dodges with the slickness of a snake, defends with the elegance of a crane, attacks with the speed of a panther and strikes with the strength of a tiger. The system incorporates single and multiple person empty hand and weapon forms, sandbag and wooden dummy forms, joint locks and internal/external strength development.
CHOY LEE FUT - BENEFITS
Today we learn Choy Lee Fut to develop self-discipline, learn respect, have fun, keep fit and gain self-confidence. Choy Lee Fut is excellent for keeping the body fit, mind focused, and increasing flexibility and reflexes. The Hung Sing Koon provides different levels of training: beginner, intermediate, advanced, instructor and expert. In each level of training, there are techniques of self-defense, weapons forms, sparring and advanced techniques (sandbag and wooden dummy forms). All men, women and children are welcome.
Various Choy Lee Fut Masters
Top Left: Master Chan, Ngau Sing
Top Right: Master Tam, Sarm
Bottom Left: Master Hong, Tak Kong
Bottom Right: Master Sek, Ton
MASTER, CHUI CHEUNG
Master Simon Siu, Man Long
(President of Canada Hung Sing Koon)
