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Chinese Martial art of Choi Lee Fut kung fu

Masters of
Choi Lee Fut
Chan Heung
Chan Koon Pak
Jeong Yim
Chan Yiu Chi
Tam Sam
Ho Hgau
Chui Cheung
Chan Hon Hung
Tse Wing Bun
Lee Koon Hung

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4. The Choi Lee Fut Wooden Dummy
5. No Substitute For Skill

Tam Sam, the founder of the Bak Sing Branch of Choi Lee Fut kung fu was born in the district of Kaiping in Hoiping county in Guangdong province. He first learned Hung Gar Kuen with Yuan Tai in Kongmen. Then he joined Lui Chan, a student of Cheung Yim (Jeong Hung Sing) learning Hung Sing Choi Lee Fut. Tam Sam had a natural ability as a great fighter. Because of his constant sparring and challenge matches he became very well known and respected. One day he had an argument with three brothers while his Master Lui Charn was away, defeating all three of them. The three were his Masters junior colleagues (kung fu Uncles) so when his Master learned of this incident he had no choice but to expel Tam Sam With Tam Sam's notorious reputation, he decided to leave his masters gwoon and travel North to a district of Guangzhou Province called Siu Bak (Little North). It was there at Sui Bak that he established a school which he named Siu Bak Hung Sing Choi Lee Fut Gwoon which was to become a second branch of the Choi Lay Fut system. It was during this period in Guangzhou that Tam Sam encountered one of the famed Five Tigers of Northern China, a Bak Siu Lum (Northern Shaolin) Master by the name of Ku Yu Cheung. It was not long before Tam Sam challenged Ku to a match of skill. They fought to a tie without either one getting the upper hand and later after the fight they became firm friends, and eventually agreed in an exchange of their martial arts knowledge. According to some sauces, with Tam Sam being more interested in the fighting aspects of Choi Lee Fut rather than forms practice and the internal side of the style. Emphasis was thus placed on application and learning through actual Fighting and sparring. It was also said, because Tam Sam did not stay long enough under his Hung Sing sifu to have learned many of the Hung Sing forms. This, in combination with emphasis on fighting, left Bak Sing Choi Lee Fut with a legacy of but a few patterns as the foundation for forms within the Bak Sing branch of Choi Lee Fut. It was said that the schools name was changed from Siu Bak Hung Sing Choi Lee Fut Gwoon to Bak Sing Choi Lee Fut, because the original name was too long and difficult to pronounce. So to honour their Master, Tam Sam's followers began referring to themselves as the Bak Sing branch of Choi Lee Fut, eventually calling their school Bak Sing Kwoon.

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Chan Heung Gong
The Founder of 
Choi Lee Fut 
 

My Sifu, Edmund Ng

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