On this episode my visitor is Phil Duffy, a senior pupil of Sifu Wan Kei-Ho from Hong Kong, who carries on a lineage of Northern Shaolin and Buk Sing Choy Li Fut from the well-known masters Ku Yu Chang and Tam Sam.
Buk Sing is a a lot rarer sub type of Choy Li Fut that entails much less lengthy varieties and extra conditioning and drills, and it’s the identical type of Choy Li Fut that I realized within the UK, so after I met Phil again within the 2000s we had rather a lot to speak about.
We’ve saved in contact through the years so it was good to catch up once more for a chat.
Right here we get into the variations between the assorted Choy Li Fut kinds, the way it’s completely different coaching martial arts in Asia in comparison with the west, and we speak about the important thing to all of it, the ging (or jin) – that particular kind of sentimental energy, that some individuals name Inside energy – that the Chinese language martial arts are well-known for, and the way it’s utilized in Choy Li Fut. We additionally speak concerning the famed Wing Chun / Choy Li Fut rivalry and the way Choy Li Fut pertains to different kinds from the identical space of China, just like the older Hung Kuen type.
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