extrajoseph
07-27-2001, 09:37 AM
Since CLF has so many schools, there bound to be rivalries between them, not only now but in the past as well. Here are couple of interesting stories about Tarm Sarm and Ngan Yiu-Ting. Please don’t ask me which one is more authentic. I don’t think it matters, what matters is healthy competitions will make us try harder without loosing the perspective that we are all part of a big family and since we are human, we will always compete with each other and have our own sense of history.
Bak Sing version (as told by the Lacey brothers)
“Tarm Sarm trained very hard and proved to be an outstanding student. After a few short years at the school, he was appointed to help instruct, and he taught many young students. They all addressed him as ‘Sarm Sook’ (third uncle).
All went well for Tarm Sarm until one day, while his Sifu Lui Chang was away, he had a confrontation with a senior classmate, Ngan Yui Ting, and two of his family members. They all happened to be his ‘Si-Sook’s’ (his Sifu’s fellow junior colleagues, or younger uncles), and Tarm Sarm subsequently beat up all three of them! After this, the incident was known as ‘Kuen Da Sarm Ngan’, or ‘Fist Defeated Three Ngan’s’!
When his Sifu, Lui Chang (Charn), returned and heard about this confrontation, he had no choice but to expel Tarm Sarm from the school. This expulsion was unfortunate, as Tarm Sarm had not yet completed his own training. Later on, however, he managed to learn the rest of the forms from his friend and colleague, Wong To.”
Hung Sing version (as told by Chan Yiu-Chi in his “History of Choy Lee Fut”)
“Tarm Sarm (Sarm) was a disciple of Lui Charn who was a student of Cheung Ah Yim. After Lui’s death, Sam often hang out with Lee Yen (his Siheng) and they became good friends.
Ngan Yiu-Ting (Ting) originally ran a school with Lee Yen (to continue the teaching passed down by their teacher Cheung Ah Yim). After Chan Koon-Bak (went to Kwangchow), Ting started to learn from him (and set up his own school).
Since Sarm and Lee Yen were good friends, Sarm thought highly of Lee but not so much of Koon-Bak and Ting.
One day, Sarm went to Ting’s school and said to Ting that since Koon-Bak’s “bridge hands” are so short (meaning he used small circle techniques), he must not have received the true teaching from his father, Chan heung. Ting asked, “If the eldest son did not received the true teaching, who did?” Sarm said, “Our school specialized in “large circles and long hands (long-range) techniques, that must be the true teaching.” Ting replied, “Even when an arrow is fired from a long distance, it is the last 2 inches that does the killing.” Sarm did not agree and they went on arguing until Sarm said, “Let us have a try to settle the difference.”
Without warning, he threw a fake left Charp Chui at Ting. As Ting used his right Pag Sou to block Sarm’s punch, Sarm dropped his fake left and kicked at Ting’s groin with his leg foot really hard. Ting quickly reacted with a twisted step and blocked Sarm kick upward with his left Lao Sou. He immediately charged forward while holding Sarm’s leg and threw him against the First Aid box.
Sarm had no answers to Ting’s Noi Lim Sou (small circle techniques), so he left the school without saying a word. When Koon Bak dropped by a few days later, he saw the broken medicine box and asked what happned. Ting told Koon Bak the story and they all had a good laugh together.”
Joseph
Bak Sing version (as told by the Lacey brothers)
“Tarm Sarm trained very hard and proved to be an outstanding student. After a few short years at the school, he was appointed to help instruct, and he taught many young students. They all addressed him as ‘Sarm Sook’ (third uncle).
All went well for Tarm Sarm until one day, while his Sifu Lui Chang was away, he had a confrontation with a senior classmate, Ngan Yui Ting, and two of his family members. They all happened to be his ‘Si-Sook’s’ (his Sifu’s fellow junior colleagues, or younger uncles), and Tarm Sarm subsequently beat up all three of them! After this, the incident was known as ‘Kuen Da Sarm Ngan’, or ‘Fist Defeated Three Ngan’s’!
When his Sifu, Lui Chang (Charn), returned and heard about this confrontation, he had no choice but to expel Tarm Sarm from the school. This expulsion was unfortunate, as Tarm Sarm had not yet completed his own training. Later on, however, he managed to learn the rest of the forms from his friend and colleague, Wong To.”
Hung Sing version (as told by Chan Yiu-Chi in his “History of Choy Lee Fut”)
“Tarm Sarm (Sarm) was a disciple of Lui Charn who was a student of Cheung Ah Yim. After Lui’s death, Sam often hang out with Lee Yen (his Siheng) and they became good friends.
Ngan Yiu-Ting (Ting) originally ran a school with Lee Yen (to continue the teaching passed down by their teacher Cheung Ah Yim). After Chan Koon-Bak (went to Kwangchow), Ting started to learn from him (and set up his own school).
Since Sarm and Lee Yen were good friends, Sarm thought highly of Lee but not so much of Koon-Bak and Ting.
One day, Sarm went to Ting’s school and said to Ting that since Koon-Bak’s “bridge hands” are so short (meaning he used small circle techniques), he must not have received the true teaching from his father, Chan heung. Ting asked, “If the eldest son did not received the true teaching, who did?” Sarm said, “Our school specialized in “large circles and long hands (long-range) techniques, that must be the true teaching.” Ting replied, “Even when an arrow is fired from a long distance, it is the last 2 inches that does the killing.” Sarm did not agree and they went on arguing until Sarm said, “Let us have a try to settle the difference.”
Without warning, he threw a fake left Charp Chui at Ting. As Ting used his right Pag Sou to block Sarm’s punch, Sarm dropped his fake left and kicked at Ting’s groin with his leg foot really hard. Ting quickly reacted with a twisted step and blocked Sarm kick upward with his left Lao Sou. He immediately charged forward while holding Sarm’s leg and threw him against the First Aid box.
Sarm had no answers to Ting’s Noi Lim Sou (small circle techniques), so he left the school without saying a word. When Koon Bak dropped by a few days later, he saw the broken medicine box and asked what happned. Ting told Koon Bak the story and they all had a good laugh together.”
Joseph