Another Choy Lay Fut Question?

[Sow Choy]

CLFNole or CLFNoble,

I think if people sit in front of the computer long enough Nole turns into Noble.

I say we call you CLFHandsome Oi!!!!

oi?

Oi!

Miss ya man! We got to go to Hiro's soon for some Japanese!

Handsome Joe

P.S.
FIRE UP THE GUNS! baby

[badfrog666]

sow choy, I have never heard of you in the tournament FIGHTING arena. As far as clf goes, I have never heard of anyone winning a tournament in fighting. I could be wrong. Maybe it is just your school that doesn't win much. Don't fret, you guys have nice forms.

[Sow Choy]

Hey Froggy,

Who are you anyway? What have you done? Not that I really care. The last tournament I was in was Tournament 2000, fought 5 times, the last I was disqualified. We always have alot of fighters, who are very sucessfull, especially the women.

Won Grand Champion of the event.

But, it really doesn't matter, I enjoy sparring with my friends alot more.

[badfrog666]

I never heard of tournament 2000. Do you plan on competiing again. I would like to see you fight. I went to your web site and it said you were the head instructor. You must be really tough then. Question, who is Li Siu Hung? I have heard of Lee Koon Hung, but not him. Where is Lee Koon Hung?

[Fu-Pow]

I suggest that before everyone gets all upset that we just ignore this schmoe, he's obviously trying to stir up trouble.

Why don't you get a life, buttfrog?

[Sow Choy]

Hey Guys,

No need to get angry at badfrog, sometimes I feel the same way. You go to these tournaments and it seems more like a star trek convention with all the forms, rules, regulations it gets too nice and neat, when it all came from combat. But, respect is something we all should practice more.

Besides what are we gonna do? Threaten each other, I am badder than you are kinda stuff, lol. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, if badfrog doesn't know us and his experience with CLF is bad, he will make obvious conclusions.

Badfrog, where are you from my friend? Tournament 2000 was a very large tournament held in Orlando Florida. You can get a video copy at: www.wahlum.com

I enjoyed the tournament because each division was very large. I believe in my fighting division there were 30 people. In hand forms 48.

Our Grandmaster Lee Koon Hung passed away in 1996, he was full contact champion in coach from Hong Kong. When we lost him his younger brother Li Siu Hung, now 45 started training when he was around 7, took over Lee Koon Hung's headquarters school in Ft. Lauderdale.

As for me being a good or a bad ass, nah! I could be much better, and do admire people with good skill in fighting and kung fu. I teach full time now, I put in about 60-70 hours a week teaching, taking care of both our schools, and training too.

Check out our website for more info on our Sifu and his brother.

Peace,

Joe Keit

[RAIN]

sow choy


thank you for teach us this lessons of humility and patience .
just in time , when all of you wanna search and destroy .
i believe you have in your heart the best of lee koon hung and li siu hung . and i believe you'll become a great master , more than your masters . and i don't wanna be disrespect with them . i admire both of them .

badfrog

i'll going to take the smart advice of fu pow and ignore you .


about lee koon hung 's legacy

when i'd start to search info about choy lay fut i'd chat with a lot of people of others branches , maynly doc fai wong . they say critics about lee koon hung's lok quei ma and variations in his hung sing style .
but all always show respect about the terrific legacy of his school . masters of the maynly and powerful kung fu styles respect him ever . ( chan pui , buck sam kong , etc )
and his students show a high level kung fu over the world .
a lot of champions was raised because of him .

i only wanna pay my admiration and respct to the late grandmaster .

[Sow Choy]

Rain,

Thank you for all the kind things you said. And I am happy that you are trying to train CLF over there without a teacher.

My Kung Fu brother Eddie from South Africa teaches many students. He learned his Kung Fu from different teachers and has established a strong school there. His students all had so much heart and ambition, it was awesome. Here in America we take things for granted too much. When I was with my South African Kung Fu family I learned many valubale lessons.

I have never really liked the whole distance learning course, and still don't like it much, but I do believe that videos can help a motivated person with the heart and ambition to push them to their limits.

Guys,

Don't let the frog bother you, maybe he really doesn't know about us. He might not be insulting us, and if he is, who cares.

Just like Chen Yong Fa,

I have never heard of him or anything his students have done. Only that he is related to Chan Heung. His relation doesn't matter much to me, I have seen his website, and recently seen some video clips, not bad. I would like to learn more about him, and even train with him if the chance arrives.

But I am not gonna disrespect him, because I don't know him or of him. And if I didn't like him, I still wouldn't say that. And I feel you can always learn something from someone. Even your students!

Peace

Joe Keit
(Definitely not a Master)

[badfrog666]

First off, my condolences on your sifu's death. I had no idea. I just recently started getting into Kung Fu and am learning more and more each day. I am curious though, how much did you actually train with him? Where you his top student? Also, I never heard of his brother. Why don't they spell their names the same way? Just curious.

[RAIN]

badfrog 666

maybe you start here whith the wrong foot . so , there is no problem . people here is very friendly . but kung fu got many divisions and is sad but is a reality that there is a lot of people that are searching the type of discusion about " my style is better that you style " .
but also there is a lot of good persons that knows a lot of authentic kung fu and are ever ready to help to everybody .
try to get close them and forget the non sense discusions .
if you get any question about kung fu , just ask . here always is response .

good look in you search .

[Sow Choy]

BadFrog,

I trained with Grandmaster Lee Koon Hung for close to 2 years. After my 1st year of training, he gave me a job and began training me to be an instructor. I had many Kung Fu brothers at a higher level than me. Me a top student? I would hope he would have considered me one of his top, but I was not very experienced, I helped teach and did alot of Kung Fu & Lion Dance Demonstrations. He did live to hear about my first tournament, 2 first places and 1 second. But he was hospitalized at the time, and he was the tournament promoter. A very sad time.

When he passed away, he had only taught at our location here in the USA for about 3 years total. His skill at teaching was incredible! He came here with his 3 daughters and wife, none of them spoke english, had no help teaching, and taught very quickly and trained his students very hard. I believe this stress may have been detremental to his health.

My Sihings learned very quickly, in 3 years they learned what someone would learn normally in 8 years. The reason for this type of teaching is he needed help and he wanted to make a name for our school. He sure did! I understand that you don't know of our school, you would need to research some magazines and tournament videos from the past.

We are known for doing extremely well at tournaments in all divisions, and many of Grandmaster Lee Koon Hung's top students from Hong Kong teach all over the world. I would say that the Lee Koon Hung branch of Choy Lay Fut is well known and respected. I am very proud to be part of our school.

The spelling of Lee or Li is the same in Chinese, Li Siu Hung when born, was written Li, I believe the English prefer that spelling. Similar to Choy Lay Fut, Choy Lee Fut & Choy Li Fut. All written in Chinese the same, just spelled in English differently.

BadFrog,
Good Luck to you! Kung Fu is a wonderful art no matter what the style. Kung Fu is always with you and WILL change your life.

Take care brothers,

Joe Keit

P.S.
If anyone is in Florida, I invite you to the Grand Opening of our branch school in Boynton Beach. Go to our website for details.
www.leekoonhungkungfu.com

Sun Neen Fai Lok! -Happy New Year!

[badfrog666]

sow choy, you said you trained with Lee Koon Hung for two years. If you are the chief instructor, what happened to your instructors?

[JAZA]

If is not indiscretion and with all the respect, what happen to Lee Koon Hung?

[Sow Choy]

Hello,

Lee Koon Hung suffered complications after having a heart transplant. He was very stubborn and didn't rest like he should have and always had company. He caught a slight infection, had pink eye and his body's immune system was very weak, so unfortunately we lost him.

I am the chief instructor for a few reasons:

1. Two of my sihings have opened their own schools, some instructors have followed them. Their are still some that remained.

2. I have been the only full time instructor/ employee for quite some time. Some advantages are being able to practice and teach up to 5-6 hours a day. Now having 2 schools, I have to plan my time better.

3. Being with my sifu for such a long time I know how he would like to run our school better. Being chief instructor mainly means keeping all the other instructors informed on whats going on, and organizing everything. Also the instructors have and continue to help so much, and have contributed to the sucess of our school. I try to gather their thoughts, ideas and to keep everyone focused together. Teamwork is essential.

4. My sifu made the choice, ask him one day if you meet him.

Take Care,

Joe

[JAZA]

My condolences for your family, it must be a great lost.