Choy Li Fut 蔡李佛 is a southern martial arts system founded in 1836 by Chan Heung 陳享, and nowadays it is one of the most widely practiced styles.
This section is dedicated to its history, techniques, forms and everything that is related to this martial style.
Choy Li Fut 蔡李佛 is a very powerful Southern martial arts system, known for its wide movements and circular strikes. However, the concept of centreline also plays a fundamental role in this system and it is necessary to understand it to be able to apply the system correctly.
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The Snake Form is one of the internal forms of our style, and gathers some of the most ancient Kung Fu techniques. The use of internal energy (氣 qi) and relaxation over external physical force predominates in the execution of techniques and movements, which imitate those of the animal.
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Many martial styles incorporate meditation practices in different ways or have an important meditative component in their practice. But, what is meditation, and why is it related to martial arts?
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Within the Choy Li Fut system we have a myriad of martial techniques of all kinds: fist techniques, kicks, qin-na 擒拿, sweeps… In addition, it is remarkable a wide variety of strikes with open hand or palm techniques, that come to us from Chan Heung’s first master and uncle, Chan Yuen-Woo 陳遠護, who was an expert in the Fut Gar system or Buddha’s Palm style.
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When Chan Heung 陳享 founded the Choy Li Fut 蔡李佛 system, he also established ten rules of conduct to guide all practitioners of the style. These rules constitute the code of conduct (武德, wǔ dé/mou dak) of Choy Li Fut. The ten rules are the following.
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The Sup Bot Law Hon Yik Gun Kuen 十八羅漢易筋 拳 is a form of Qi Gong 氣功 belonging to the Luohan system of Choy Li Fut. It is believed that the exercises contained in this form were taught by Bodhidharma to the monks of Shaolin temple to counteract the numbness of the body caused by long hours sitting in meditation.
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At the end of the decade of 1920, Choy Li Fut 蔡李佛 arrived at the American continent by the hand of Master Lau Bun 劉彬, who opened the first school in San Francisco.
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Grand Master Wong Gong 黄江, current Guardian of the Hung Sing 雄勝 School of Jiāngmén, lives in Hong Kong, where he has continued teaching Choy Li Fut until today.
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Last January we were lucky enough to participate in an interview conducted by the newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报 Nánfāng Dūshì Bào) to our Sifu Poon Seon Seoi 潘顺遂, in which we recounted some experiences of our common story.
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The plum blossom is a recurring symbol within the Choy Li Fut 蔡李佛 style of Kung Fu. For the Chinese, this flower represents the ideal virtues of the nation, and has been object of admiration and representation in all kinds of arts for many centuries, from painting to poetry.
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