After speaking in depth with my Sifu, ( Master Dave Lacey ) we thought it was necessary to educate people and help them understand the differences between Buck Sing and Hung Sing Choy Lay Fut……
Hung Sing and Buck Sing may be from the same lineage if we go all the way back to Cheung Hung Sing but in Buck Sing, our lineage stops at Tarm Sarm, the founder of the Buck Sing Branch. We are not exactly "One and the Same". In our branch we have our own special training drills and fighting techniques that are exclusively and uniquely Buck Sing. In the Tarm Sarm Buck Sing branch lineage, my sifu Dave Lacey is a 4th generation Buck Sing disciple.
In the CLF martial arts, it's not what you know or can do - it's HOW you do it! Recently a guy from the U.K ( Hakka Jai ) who viewed ( My Sifu’s) Master Dave Lacey's youtube, mentioned on the kung fu forum that until he saw Buck Sing he never really had any interest in learning Choy Lay Fut. He further said there is a Hung Sing CLF school in his area but he specified that he only wants to learn Buck Sing! Someone mentioned that "Buck Sing and Hung Sing are One and the Same?" Well then, if there is no difference with Master Lacey's Choy Lay Fut, then why wouldn't this guy want to learn from a Hung Sing teacher?
Anyone familiar with Choy Lay Fut kung fu is aware that there are 3 branches within the style. The Hung Sing Branch (the Cheung Hung Sing lineage) and especially the Chan family branch (the Chan Heung lineage) has many kung fu forms in their curriculum. The Buck Sing branch founded by the legendary master fighter Tarm Sarm was not interested in learning and teaching many forms for his true passion was in the art of kung fu fighting/combat. Therefore at his school the Buck Sing Gwoon, the focus was on tough realistic training for conditioning and endurance, repetitive drilling of fighting technique for speed and power and regular sparring matches in class so that his students fighting skills could be put to the test. Tarm Sarm was not one to waste time on learning and practising too many forms for he was a fighter at heart who firmly believed that the only way a true martial arts pugilist would gain fame, recognition and respect was in the martial arts dueling area against other skilled rival kung fu fighters.
THE BUCK SING FIGHTING ARTS
The experience he gained in the many sparring matches with his fellow CLF brothers over the years and the numerous challenge/dueling matches with other kung fu fighters enabled Tarm Sarm to carefully analyze the effectiveness of his CLF techniques as well as examine its flaws. He became a true innovator of the fighting style he learnt and made good use of his combat experience to further imporve his fighting skills and combat strategy. He realized that in combat he had to compete with time and space (the distance between him and his opponent and the time it'll take to move in to close the gap quickly) and he accomplished that successfully with a lightning footwork call biu ma. In order to have more extension and longer reach with his left and right straight pantherfist (charp chui) punches he made full use of his shoulders and waist and this helped generate more power. He also adopted the 180 degree side stance (peen sun) to give his opponent less target area to strike. He put his newfound strategy to use in sparring matches with his sihings (senior fellow students) and even his Hung Sing CLF teacher Lui Charn and none of them could beat him. When he later established his own school, the Buck Sing Gwoon in Guangzhou in a province called Siu Buck, his fame and great reputation attracted many followers. To honour their teacher Tarm Sarm's martial arts achievements and his reputation as a famed fighting master, his loyal students respectfully referred to their CLF as "Buck Sing" after the school's name.
In over 100 fighting matches Tarm Sarm was never defeated. With a new technique using the charp chui (pantherfist) punches in rapid succession Tarm Sarm was able to floor his opponents withing seconds of the fight.
In the 1960's movie producers in Hong Kong wanted to make a movie on the life and martial arts legacy of Tarm Sarm (died 1942) but his son Tarm Fei Pang said no. He told them that no actor was good enough to play the role of his father and that it'll only do him injustice!
Though the Buck Sing branch is part of the CLF family, the Buck Sing fighting arts is unique because of Tarm Sarm's passion in devoting his time and efforts to improve on his own martial skills and fighting techniques and putting them to the test.
Nick
Buck Sing Gwoon Australia
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That's standard Choy Li Fut 
Originally Posted by Buck Sing Gwoon
