Lam Yiu-gwai
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Lam Yiu-gwai | |
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Born | 1887 Huiyang County, Huizhou, China |
Died | 1966 British Hong Kong |
Style | Lung Ying (Southern Dragon) |
Teacher(s) | Daai Yuk |
Lam Yiu-gwai
From a young age Lam learned martial arts from his father Lam Qing-yun and grandfather Lam Hao-hing and Uncle Lam Hap. Like them, he would eventually undertake training from masters on Loh Fu Mountain in neighboring Bo Loh (
Good friends since their youth in Huizhou, Lam Yiu-gwai and the Bak Mei master Jeung Lai-chuen
Lam Yiu-gwai married and had several children. His wife taught Dragon Style Kung Fu to women in Hong Kong.
In the 1920s, he moved to Guangzhou, where he opened a number of Dragon style schools and met Mok Gar master Lin Yin-tang, who became a friend with whom he had much in common.
Lin Yin-tang was from the prefecture of Dongguan, which bordered both Huìyáng and Bóluó counties.
Like Yiu-gwai, Yin-tang studied at a temple on Loh Fu Mountain; in Yin-tang's case, the Temple of Emptiness (
After a stroke in the early 1950s, Lam Yiu-gwai moved to Hong Kong for medical treatment and to reunite with his family where, after another stroke in 1965, he died in 1966.
He passed on the art to his students, among others, Chiu Chung, Wu Hua-tai, Ma Chai, Chan Cheung (Robert Chan), Tsui Yiu-cheung, Yip Ho-sing, Tsang Gan, Ho Lai
Cho Sam's student, Yip Wing-hong, Lam Yiu-gwai's disciples, Mao Yim, Ho Lai and Lau Hong, would emigrate to New York City. They have taught numerous students in Manhattan Chinatown since 1974.
Chiu Chung‘s student Nicholas Costello established the Chiu Chung Lung Ying Academy in Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland and has been teaching there since 1998.
References
[edit]- ^ Benjamin N. Judkins & Jon Nielson (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts. Suny Press. ISBN 1-4384-5693-X.