If you try to find out about Leung Tin Chiu (Chee) you will find a variety of stories about his technique, fighting, form and how good he was. A common story is about his participation in a national Martial Arts tournament set up by the Chinese government. The tournament was set up with the best Kung Fu practitioners from across China competing. There were supposedly over 2000 competitors at the tournament. Competitors were ranked on a variety of categories including fighting, forms, technique and weapons. It is clear that Leung Tin Chiu did very well in the tournament but the final results have been reported in several ways. My understanding of the final results is that the overall winner was not clearly identified (possibly due to political reasons) but that Leung Tin Chiu was one of the top three. Other stories have him listed as 3rd overall, 1st overall, 1st in fighting, etc. What is clear is no matter where he finished, it was a great accomplishment in a tournament of this stature.
Our school is proud to be teaching Leung Tin Chiu's style as taught to his disciple, Chen Rong En. I am one of the original 9 disciples of Chen Rong En and unfortunately the only one of the original disciples that is still teaching Fut Gar Kung Fu. We have a sister school in China now which has been in operation for about 3 years.
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sifu, i found a really cool story about him. Basically, he actually had a different name until he went for the competition in Nan King, and they made a mistake on the sign up sheet due to his accent.
http://big5.yunfu.gov.cn/issueFileShow.ifs?issueId=77665&filePath=/website/html/001/001/77665_0.htm&keyWords=&msgType=0
Too bad the site is in Chinese... so most students from our school can't read it. There's a picture of him... I don't know why he has lip sticks on... maybe it's a thing for that time to take pictures with lipsticks
Thanks Kai. I believe that was his funeral picture. I will double check this with the hard copy article I have. It might be the same one but I did not have the site of where it came from.
Sifu Chow,
I've been studying under a UK-based school that traces it's lineage to the Fat Gar style as it was exported to Malaysia. I wondered if you had any videos of form work from your style as I'm interested in looking at the similarities - I no longer train with the main UK school but still study under one of the system's original examiners. I'm keen to identify what was added to the system I studied and which were the original Fat Gar techniques.
Cheers
Graham @ Martial Study - Kung Fu Training and more
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