2 Great Hung Gar Books!!!
My Sifu Lam Kwong Wing just released his 2nd Hung Gar Book. “Authentic Five Animals Hasayfu Hung Kuen”
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Of course I’m very biased in favor of it, but regardless it is tough to come up with better books that could possibly offer this much information.
Just like his 1st H.G. book “Southern Shaolin Ling Nam Hung Gar”
This volume goes into details about Gung Fu in general that are frankly not discussed in most books. Once again, Sifu releases and lets go of concepts that most people don’t ever talk about.
History, Gangster politics??? , Fundamentals, fighting principles and conditioning exercises. I’m frankly surprised he even goes into details about Tiger Iron Palm training, table and all, it’s amazing!
Excerpt:
“Ha say Fu is not actually the style name however, it is a facilitation of the meaning for modern use. H.S.F., or Lower Four Counties, refers to a region in the Fujian province located south of the capitol city of Fuzhou. It also includes Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Yong’an. It was the martial arts practiced in this region and is simply known as Hung Kuen.” …
Reference info: http://www.wle.com/store/b_hunggar.html
Bitter Feelings
This Ha Say fu Book is really an important milestone. I had been begging my Sifu to allow me to release photos and/OR videos (old 16mm film stock) of himself learning this style in Hong Kong way back in the 1960’s. He’s always been very modest about it. In a way I understand, perhaps I would not want videos put out of myself just starting out in a style. Or he had other reasons, nonetheless it doesn’t invalidate the style.
In the past since Si Gung Leung Hua Chu was secretive and didn’t explain much history to the young man (Sifu Lam) that was learning from him. It’s been a hard pill for me(a student of Sifu Lam) to swallow… to keep quiet whilst so many A-holes have accused Wing Lam of making this style up.
Sifu has always been so humble and didn’t care, but all of that is explained in this book. He goes into the details of his fortunate circumstance to learn. Plus, to top it all off… the actual training photos that I have been asking for so long. Finally, I thumb my nose to all those nay-sayers. Call me bitter or vengeful, but they deserve it and they know who they are.
Anyway, anyone looking to really increase their Gung Fu understanding will certainly enjoy these books.
"O"nassis Parungao
Nice to hear from you, 0!
It's great to see Sifu putting out another book. I'm looking forward to reading this too.
Breaking the Ha Say Fu Hung Gar story in IKF was the most significant piece I did for that mag. Or course, I did another version for our mag in our 1998 September issue.
There's some discussion on this thread too: Ha Say Fu Hung Gar
That's what I meant by IKF
0 - It's good to hear your voice...or posts rather...
You know, that Calligraphy article - How Chinese Calligraphy Can Improve Your Kung Fu - has been kicking around in my head for over a decade. The whole sun fist episode happened when we were working at Lam Kwoon together.
I'm really eager to read Sifu's new book. We had started to work on his Ling Nam book together, so I had almost all the notes for that. We only had done a little on Ha Say Fu (it was originally to be contained in one big Hung Gar book) but not much. I'm eager to see how Sifu has progressed with the research on Ha Say Fu since then.
As for plagiary, you know, I think it's got to the point that I plagiarize myself now. :o
