Historical Lei Tai Fights

[Kellen Bassette]

There's a lot of histories on the web about various Lei Tai tournaments and successful Lei Tai fighters. However, I'm having a hard time finding original documentation on most of them.

In past searches I've found translations from old Chinese newspapers, (along with copies of the original paper) about various Lei Tai events. Today I'm coming up empty.

If anyone has any verifiable info about the old Lei Tai matches, please post it on this thread, along with the sources.

If anyone wants to put up anything legendary or unverifiable, that's fine, just note that you don't have original sources.

Hopefully we can get some participation on this from members in the know; and create a thread with a decent history of the Lei Tai, the fighters, their backgrounds and their opponents.

Unfortunately, this a tough subject to research for us non-Chinese speakers.

[Willy]

I remember finding a website several years ago that had old newspaper articles and photos from Lei Tei tournaments from around the 1940's but I can no longer find it. I remember one account in particular in which people allegedly witnessed a Hung Gar dude literally rip his opponent's intestines out. Maybe that was the inspiration for the old Shaw Bros movies in which someone's beating heart would get ripped out of his chest?

Anyway sorry I couldn't be of more help but here are some videos of Lei Tei tournments from the 80's:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t3c6sBJShj4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A8WxUqwaByM

[Kellen Bassette]

I seen some good newspaper articles about one from the '40's and one in the 19th Century, but I can't find them either. Hopefully someone on the forum will have them.