Chai Lei Fut Kung Fu
Five Animals
Long Range
System
for self-defence and health
Bruce Lee claimed that Choi Lai Fut is
one of the martial art styles that he has encountered and has great respect
to this style. He said Choi Lai Fut is the most difficult styles to attack
and defend against.
During the
18th century, the most talented monk in martial arts skill of Shaolin
temple, JueYuan felt the need to seek knowledge from outside the confines
of the temple to keep the fame that the temple enjoyed.
Monk JueYuan set out to serch for ingredian that missing in martial
arts practised in shaolin temple. In Gansu,
a Province in the west of China
populated with not just Han but also Arab and Tibetan Chinese. (Infact It
is still very easy for a novice to confuse Tibetan Crane sequence with Choy
Li Fut.) Here in the city, he met Li Sou, a master of Li family Kung Fu. The Li family have learnt their
arts from the Taoist immortal and other traveling Tibetan hermits from the
Wudang and O Mei Mountains and were passed down through the generations,
mostly staying completely within the Li family.
Li Sou
accompanied JueYuan to Luoyang
to introduce JueYuan to a internal martial arts master Bai Yufeng,
They
returned to Shaolin with Bai Yufeng and expanded JueYuan's 72 techniques to
approximately 170. Moreover, using their combined knowledge, they restored
internal aspects to Shaolin boxing. They organized these techniques into Five Animals: the Tiger,
the Crane, the Leopard,
the Snake,
and the Dragon. These arts of combat become a tool
to adjust balance in life where one could cultivate both spirituality and
physical health in harmony. A efficient way for developing positive
philosophies and meditations to help them be at peace with themselves and
their surroundings.
The origins of Choi Lei Fut
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