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Notes From The Training Hall
Thoughts, observations and reflections on practice, tradition, and the long road of learning. Updated when something is worth saying.
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Written Pieces
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Why Hung Kuen?
Why Hung Kuen? — An Anchor in a Fragmented World In a modern landscape that is increasingly transient, digital, and disconnected from physical reality, the question of why becomes unavoidable. Because most people today are not lacking options. They are lacking something stable to build on—something that does not shift when everything else does. Hung […]
Lineage and the Digital Paper Trail: The Search for Authenticity
In the traditional martial arts, lineage is often described as a “Golden Thread.” It connects the practitioner to a proven method and ensures that the principles being trained…
The Geometry of Transmission: Teacher and Student
In the martial tradition, there is a proverb that has endured because it describes something real: 尋師三年，擇徒十年 (Sāam nìhn chàhm sī, sahp nìhn jaahk touh) “Three years to find a…
SIFU (師父)
SIFU (師父): Beyond the Title In the martial tradition, the term Sifu (師父) embodies far more than the mere role of a “teacher” or “master.” It is a concept intricately woven into…
IMAGES
Photography
Demos – techniques – rare clips
Video
Hung Kuen · Forms
Leon Dogan – Lam Family Hung Kuen
Hung Kuen · Forms
Grandmaster Lam Cho – Hong Kong 2003
Hung Kuen · Forms
Leon Dogan – Grandmaster Lam Chun Sing 2005