August -- September 2012 News Column --
Hardcover Book Released - Eighteen Buddha Hands
Now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.
Featuring Late Sifu Louie Jack Man
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Book Specs
- Collector's Edition
- Hardcover
- 6 x 9"
- 168 Pages
- 130+ Photographs
- Full Color Interior
- Acid Free Archival Quality
Description:
A rare instructional treatise of Chinese boxing from the Kwongsai Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Bamboo Forest Temple, Praying Mantis Clan, as transmitted by the late Grandmaster Lam Sang. Details include stories of Lam Sang's supernatural ability such as Poison Snake Staff, Sun Gazing, and Light Body Skills. Boxing principles elaborated are Body posture, Rooting, Sinking, Center-line, Spiral power, Contact-control-strike, Intercepting and sticky hand, Bridging, Anticipating-telegraphing, Dead and live power, Form and function, 4 word secret, Dim Mak vital points and more. Boxing Fundamentals included are Footwork: Chop, Circle, Advance, Shuffle step, Turnarounds, Side to side; Kicks, Sweeps, Takedowns, Grappling, Chin Na Seizing, Hook hands, Elbow strokes, Dui Jong, Sticky hands, Forms, and Phases of training. Eighteen Buddha Hand techniques, 9 defensive, 9 offensive, are illustrated in color with instruction in attributes, function and vital point targeting. Boxing maxims of strategy and tactics are included.
Publication date: August 8, 2012 (Online listings may not be fully propagated until September, 2012. Online bookseller's cover Images many not show until then.)
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Hardcover Book Released
Pingshan Mantis Celebration
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Contributor, Wong Yu Hua Sifu
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Book Specs
- Collector's Edition
- Hardcover
- 6 x 9"
- 110 Pages
- 130+ Photographs
- Full Color Interior
- Acid Free Archival Quality
Description:
A rare book of China's Kwongsai Jook Lum Temple Praying Mantis Kungfu and Unicorn Culture. Included are: Origins, history and practices of China's Kwongsai Mantis, rare and exclusive historical photographs never published before, the hometown of Kwongsai Mantis-Pingshan Town, how Wong Yuk Kong came to learn Hakka Mantis, why Wong Sifu went "mad" after a spell was cast, why Hakka Mantis is divided into "three orders" and what they are, three Wong Brothers who inherited Kwongsai Mantis, what Kwongsai Mantis boxing was taught early on and now, what happened when Kwongsai Mantis and Chu Gar first met, Hakka Mantis descending the mountain on horseback in 1917, English and Chinese translation of how Master Chung blossomed Hakka Mantis in South China, Hakka Culture along the East River, extensive interviews with inheritor Wong Yu Hua about sensitive topics, rules and regulations of Wong Yuk Kong's Mantis School, a Hakka Feast in Pingshan Town, valuable Hakka Mantis resources online and off, Hakka Mantis boxing maxims and proverbs, dozens of Kwongsai Mantis boxing postures, staff, and sword pictures, rare never before published Jook Lum Mantis reliquary photographs, the Bamboo Forest Temple true heritage Dit Da liniment prescription and more.
Publication date: August 8, 2012 (Online listings may not be fully propagated until September, 2012. Online bookseller's cover Images many not show until then.)
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Hardcover Book Released
Chu Gar Gao: Hakka Praying Mantis
Now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.
Publication date: September 8, 2012
Featuring Late Sifu Cheng Wan
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Book Specs
- Collector's Edition
- Hardcover
- 6 x 9"
- 145 Pages
- 130+ Photographs
- Full Color Interior
- Acid Free Archival Quality
Description:
Chu Gar Mantis Personal Records --- Sifu Chen Ching Hong, SIfu Yip Sui, Past Masters in Charge, Sifu Cheng Wan, Sifu Cheng Chu, SIfu Dong Yat Long, Sifu Ma Jiuhua. Chu Gar Mantis History, Boxing Transmission, Six Chu Gar Areas, Three Kinds of Chu Gar. Chu Gar Applications --- Single Bridge Tsai Sao, Double Bridge Dui Jong, Dui - Jong Mang Dan Sao, Ying Sao Shadow Hand, Gow Choy Hammer Fist, Locking Hands, Bridge - Tan Sao - and Ginger Fist, Double Bridge Gwak Sao, Sticky Hand and Intercepting Hand Bao Zhang Palms. Chu Gar Forms --- Som Bo Gin; Three Step Arrow, Som Gin Yu Kiu; Three Arrow Shaking Bridge. And much more!
Publication date: September 8, 2012 (Online listing may not be fully propagated until October, 2012. Online bookseller's cover Images many not show until then.)
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Special Premium Collector's Editions
Direct from China! Special premium gloss hardcopies of the above books are available for delivery direct from China. For inquiries use the contact form.
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Elder Sifu Lok Wei Ping Passes
Sadly, Sifu Lok Wei Ping has passed. Both, he and his father, Lok Hui Ting, were students of Lao Sui's Chu Gar Mantis in the 1930s before becoming students of Wong Yuk Kong's Kwongsai Mantis. Elder Sifu Lok, in the 40s and 50s worked as a healer and bone doctor in Wong's Kungfu Schools in Hong Kong. He was an invaluable living record of Chu Gar and Kwongsai Jook Lum Temple Mantis in the era from whence it all came.
I first met Lok Sifu in 2002 during the China Mantis Reunion.
I found Lok Wei Ping, Sifu, the eldest master that day, to be kindly and very clear about the origins, history and practices of Som Dot's three orders of Mantis. Mr. Lok's stature was short, hardly five foot tall, but his martial intent and fiery nature is readily apparent. He left no question as to his past, ability or mantis knowledge.
He was a living treasure of Southern Praying Mantis that cannot be replaced. He was already 80 on the day of the pictures below!
To read more about Elder Lok Wei Ping refer to the China Mantis Reunion.
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