Snieeke!
10/21/2005 7:12pm,
Greetings
I have been training Choygar kungfu for a few years and Im trying to find some more history on the style or rather just people who know of any trace of it and at the same time share what i got. My Sifu, Adolfo Alstersund learned this style in Lima Peru chinatown when he grew up from a chinese haka, Fausto wong. I dont know if thats some spanification of his name. Fausto doesent sound too chinese..
What i make of it
My sifu though very close to his own teacher never knew much about the origins of the style. I think a combination of his teacher not being interested in the history aspect (maybe he didnt know himself) and language barriers played its part. Im not sure how "pure" our choy is since there is influence from other styles admittedly in what we do (read below for more info)
My GF went to shanghai last year, but could find no trace of any choy gar kf (though shitloads of tkd). The only real trace are some people in Cuba which we visited a few years back though the chinese guy who brought it there. Lei Tchoy, died in 1999 unfortunatly. We still have contact with those people though they were unable to visit us (gotta love that freedom). The one guy who had been longest with Lei was pissed cos we somehow missed to publicly invite him before everyone else or some silly **** like that so we only were with students who had been with Lei his last years. They werent that advanzed and did no sparring probably since Lei was so old. Fausto died a few years back too so there are no chinese originators left for me to contact.
about sparring
We do "spar" in stockholm every training. I would call it light contact/rough point sparring without stopping between hits. The good fighters though at the club are more or less people who have been in fights so they know distancing, how to take and dish out etc and if you got this experienze you can use the techniques well, though without it its easy to get naive about practicalities, hitting with your arm and not body power etc. I am aware of the dangers and is thinking about adding medium/full contact sparring to the curriculum if ppl are interested at the club. Grappling and groundwork is allowed in sparring even if its not really taught in the style (Adolfo is a Judo bb though he only teaches choy) we are free to use it, though its a hard floor you usually check before the fight if you allow takedowns and submissions which most people are fine with.
Sources about Choy
These are everything i got. Its mostly from the cubans coupled with some from Adolfo. Some of it is about KF in Cuba which some might find interesting. You can read more at http://www.choygar.com
We are working on our multimedia section, trying to get a camera to training and upload some video of sparring and forms. Ill let you know when we do.
The Choy Ka Kiin
The county of Kwong Tong has been, at least in the last centuries, the most fertile soil for the emergence of styles of Kung Fú, fundamentally family styles which techniques have been zealously conserved from generation to generation like a legacy from the ancestors. This is the case of the Choy Ka Kiin, name that means “Fist of the Choy Family”. Most of the sources recognize Choy Kau Yi as its creator, although other experts mention Choy Fook the Monk of the “Burnt Head” or Choy Pak Tat. It is one of the styles of the Five Families of the South of China: Hung, Mok, Lau, Lei and Choy.
Of these five styles only the Hung Ka Kiin was able to expand considerably due to its close bond with the revolutions in the south of China against the manchú dynasty of the Ching in which its creator Hung Hei Kung or Hong Xi Kuan participated. The other four styles didn't had the same luck and nowadays it is very difficult to find them in their original state, such is the case of the style Lau Ka Kiin which forms have been included in the Hung style; of the Lei style which techniques have been included in the Choy Lei Fat and of the very Choy style which techniques, forms and philosophy have passed to form part of styles like the Chow Ka, Jow Ka, Choy Lei Fat and Wing Chung.
At the moment the Choy is a practically unknown style, and we only have news it is trained as system in Peru (Society Chung Shan), Sweden (Choy Gar Kung Fú Klubben) and Cuba (Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú). it is wrapped in a mystery and secret halo, and although it is mentioned in almost all the stories of the Kung Fú of the South of China almost nobody has real knowledge of its forms and techniques.
Technically the Choy is a medium-short style, based on the movements of the rat and the snake and it is famous for its agile displacements. Different tendencies and modalities exist inside the same style, the one that is practiced in Matanzas is distinguished for its blockades in " hook ", the fist with the second join of the hand or “snake fist”, the wide use of the postures Pen Kai Ma or “kneeling horse”, Sam Ko Ma or “horse of the three angles” and the preference for diagonal kicks. It was introduced in Cuba by the Master Lei Tchoy in the first quarter of the XX century and except for one year in which it was openly taught to nearly 40 students, it has never counted with more than five practitioners for generation, what makes it an exclusive and exotic art for most of the martial artists.
It is for that reason that without caring in what country the school is, the teaching of the Choy has always had as fundamental precept the high moral, the ethics, the humility and the responsibility towards the other human beings.
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The Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei
The Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei was founded in 1930 by a group of masters among which were the Master Lei Tchoy (Choy Ka Kiin) and the Master Lei Bu(Hung Ka Kiin) as martial and sport society in the Havana Chinatown. It’s name means literally: "Martial arts of the Chinese Community ". Years later was brought from Canton (Kwong Tong) the Master Wong Key, recognized as “Master of Masters” and that‚ as has been said‚ it dominated an infinity of styles and weapons of the South of China.
As all the Chinese societies of its time, the Jag Yu Wei only accepted Chinese or its descendants as students. For this reason the teaching of the Kung Fú that there was practiced was restricted and it never arrived at least to the twenty practitioners including those that acted in the opera that although they received some knowledge of martial arts, they were not instructed in the true secrets of the Mou Sot (Wu Shu in Cantonese). This strict selection system guaranteed for many years the conservation in its purer state of the multiple styles that there were practiced‚ and it transformed into legend those Masters that closed the doors of the school at nights and practiced the techniques brought from the distant China.
There are so many stories that have been passed down about the confrontations between the Masters of the Jag Yu Wei with gangsters and the challenges with other Masters of Kung Fú that would make us remember the China of the XIX century, so full with heroes and legendary duels.
The school was also very famous for its cultural impact in the Chinatown, example of that was its Dance of the Lion that had the honor of being the first one exhibited in Cuba in the year 1930, during the ceremony of foundation of the own school, and among other special occasions, in 1954 during the only procession of the hero's statue Kwang Kung for the Havana Chinatown.
The Jag Yu Wei survived until the year 1960. Its Masters aged, and they began to die, with the danger that it got lost their inheritance. Already in the 50s the Master Wong Key had died, in 1986 dies Lei Bu, and lastly Lei Tchoy in 1999.
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The Choy Ka Kiin in Cuba after the JYW
After the disappearance of the Jag Yu Wei, seemed that the inheritance of the old school had been drained. Fortunately, years before their death, the masters Lei Bu first, and Lei Tchoy later, they bequeathed their knowledge to a descendant of Chinese, Faro González Argudín.
The Master Lei Tchoy it also accepted some non Chinese students, among those were the current Professor Aníbal Rodríguez Reyes who was instructed in the style Choy Ka Kiin. In the beginnings of the nineties, this one requested authorization from the Master to open a small school of Choy Ka in the city of Matanzas, capital of the province of the same name located at 100Km of Havana, which lasted for hardly a year because Professor Aníbal decided to unite to the Academy Nam Pai Kung Fú of the Master Wong Yi Man as instructor of the style Fat Ka Kiin, for what was stopped the succession of the Choy of Jag Yu Wei.
Meanwhile, an old student that had been able to appropriate during the year of existence of the Matanzas school of some knowledge of the Choy style, and that had also been integrated to the “Nam Pai", Yhanco Monet Rodríguez, began to instruct Carlos Abel Olivera Rodríguez in the styles Choy Lei Fat and Hung Ka Kiin, until later guided him in his first steps for the Choy Ka Kiin. After having culminated his studies of Choy Ka with the professor Yhanco Monet, in the year 1999, and anxious to increase his knowledge, Carlos A. Olivera is presented before the professor Aníbal Rodríguez who accepted him as student in its school of Fat Ka. With the time, the professor Aníbal began to instruct him in the style Choy Ka Kiin of the Master Lei Tchoy, specifically in the use of the cane of Siu Lam and the butterfly knives.
In the year 2001, the Professor Aníbal Rodríguez recommends Carlos A. Olivera to visit in the Havana Chinatown his bigger brother Faro González who was the Master Lei Tchoy's closer pupil in his last 20 years of life. The Professor Faro González instructed Carlos A. Olivera in the techniques of Doi Kung (internal energy), the philosophy of life and combat of the most traditional Choy Ka Kiin, and also, it put it in contact with the history of the Jag Yu Wei.
During the second half of the 2000, in the search for other practitioners of the Choy style, Carlos A. Olivera finds by the Internet the Sifu (Master) Adolfo Alstersund, Peruvian resided in Sweden, master in the style Choy Ka Kiin of the region of Chung Shan, which accepted him as pupil. An exchange that brought 20 young practitioners of the style Choy to Matanzas began this way and thanks to which both schools, in Stockholm and Matanzas, maintain a fruitful and intense exchange with the intention to conserve and to expand the Choy Ka style.
Nowadays the style is only known in Cuba by three people: Faro González Argudín, Aníbal Rodríguez Reyes and Carlos Abel Olivera Rodríguez, and it is only practiced at the Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú school, in charge of this last one, named this way in honor to the Master Lei Tchoy
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The Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú school
The Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú is the school of the Choy Ka Kiin or Choy Gar Kuen of Cuba, resided in the city of Matanzas, capital of the province of the same name and that it gathers a group of practitioners resolved to conserve the legacy of the old masters of the Choy. It arises definitively at the beginning of the year 2004, after some years of sporadic existence. Heiress of the Master Lei Tchoy and of the Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei´s legacy, rises as rampart of the Mou Sot or traditional Kung Fú in Cuba, being one of the few schools of the style Choy outside of China
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Kung Fú in Cuba
In Cuba the history of the Kung Fú goes back to the XIX century, because the first Chinese warriors arrived as prisoners in the time of the colony. They were members of the great rebellion of the Thai Ping that was about to overthrow completely the Ching dynasty. Already at the beginning of the XX century the schools that concentrated to most of the masters of the of Havana Chinatown were founded: the Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei, and the school belonging to the Min Chi Tong society.
Masters like Wong Key, Lei Tchoy, Lei Bu for Jag Yu Wei and Emilio Chann for Min Chi Tong stood out for its big martial abilities.
Nevertheless their great level and development, the Chinese martial arts stayed in the strait circle of the natural Chinese and their descendants. It was only after the decade of the sixty that some as Rufino Alay (old practitioner of Jag Yu Wei) began to teach this art to the non Chinese. Also Master Lei Tchoy in the last years of his life bequeathed his knowledge to some Cubans.
By the middle of the decade of the ninety arrives to Cuba the Master Wong Yi Man, and he founds the Academy Nam Pai Kung Fú that extended for the whole country and lasted for some years.
At the moment it is known in the whole nation a huge number of traditional styles, fundamentally from the south of China as the Choy Ka Kiin, Hung Ka Kiin, Fat Ka Kiin, Choy Lei Fat and Wing Chung Kiin; also some from the north, as the Zha Chuan, Si Kua Chuan, Pei Shaolin Chuan and Thai Chi Chuan. There are also practiced the modern modalities of the Wu Shu fundamentally in Havana.
Up to where we have knowledge schools of these exist in the provinces of Havana, City, Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Granma and Santiago de Cuba. But in spite of all the carried out inquiries, many practitioners and styles of Kung Fú still remains in the anonymity, integrating quietly the mosaic of the martial culture that the old Chinese warriors bequeathed us.
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Master Lei Tchoy
The Master Lei Tchoy (Rafael Lei) was born in the year 1900, in the region of Toi San, province of Kwong Tong in the south of China. His martial life began when he was eight years-old in the style Hung Ka Kiin that practiced up to the 11 when he changed to the Choy style. At age of 19 he emigrates toward Cuba with “advanced student's” degree. Here he carried out multiple works and it trafficked for several regions of the country until settling down finally in Havana. In 1930, he founded together with Lei Bu and other masters the Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei with the purpose of to conserve and to perpetuate the Chinese martial arts in Cuba.
It was very well-known and respected in the Havana Chinatown (that was the second bigger in America by that time) for his great martial abilities, and there are many legends that have been knitted around his person speaking about his powerful blockades and his domain of the Dig Mok or “blow of the death”. He always knew how to assume the responsibility of being a Master, and the commitment that this bears towards his community, for what was wrapped in several confrontations that transformed him practically into the guardian of his compatriots.
It was specialist in the use of the blockade in “hook”, the fist with the second joint of the hand (snake fist), the posture of kneeling or “Pen Kai Ma”, the oblique kicks or “Fan Kiack” and the handling of the broadsword or “ tou”.
He died in the year 1999 to the advanced age of 99 years-old, after bequeathing great part from his knowledge to his students.
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/Snieeke!
I have been training Choygar kungfu for a few years and Im trying to find some more history on the style or rather just people who know of any trace of it and at the same time share what i got. My Sifu, Adolfo Alstersund learned this style in Lima Peru chinatown when he grew up from a chinese haka, Fausto wong. I dont know if thats some spanification of his name. Fausto doesent sound too chinese..
What i make of it
My sifu though very close to his own teacher never knew much about the origins of the style. I think a combination of his teacher not being interested in the history aspect (maybe he didnt know himself) and language barriers played its part. Im not sure how "pure" our choy is since there is influence from other styles admittedly in what we do (read below for more info)
My GF went to shanghai last year, but could find no trace of any choy gar kf (though shitloads of tkd). The only real trace are some people in Cuba which we visited a few years back though the chinese guy who brought it there. Lei Tchoy, died in 1999 unfortunatly. We still have contact with those people though they were unable to visit us (gotta love that freedom). The one guy who had been longest with Lei was pissed cos we somehow missed to publicly invite him before everyone else or some silly **** like that so we only were with students who had been with Lei his last years. They werent that advanzed and did no sparring probably since Lei was so old. Fausto died a few years back too so there are no chinese originators left for me to contact.
about sparring
We do "spar" in stockholm every training. I would call it light contact/rough point sparring without stopping between hits. The good fighters though at the club are more or less people who have been in fights so they know distancing, how to take and dish out etc and if you got this experienze you can use the techniques well, though without it its easy to get naive about practicalities, hitting with your arm and not body power etc. I am aware of the dangers and is thinking about adding medium/full contact sparring to the curriculum if ppl are interested at the club. Grappling and groundwork is allowed in sparring even if its not really taught in the style (Adolfo is a Judo bb though he only teaches choy) we are free to use it, though its a hard floor you usually check before the fight if you allow takedowns and submissions which most people are fine with.
Sources about Choy
These are everything i got. Its mostly from the cubans coupled with some from Adolfo. Some of it is about KF in Cuba which some might find interesting. You can read more at http://www.choygar.com
We are working on our multimedia section, trying to get a camera to training and upload some video of sparring and forms. Ill let you know when we do.
The Choy Ka Kiin
The county of Kwong Tong has been, at least in the last centuries, the most fertile soil for the emergence of styles of Kung Fú, fundamentally family styles which techniques have been zealously conserved from generation to generation like a legacy from the ancestors. This is the case of the Choy Ka Kiin, name that means “Fist of the Choy Family”. Most of the sources recognize Choy Kau Yi as its creator, although other experts mention Choy Fook the Monk of the “Burnt Head” or Choy Pak Tat. It is one of the styles of the Five Families of the South of China: Hung, Mok, Lau, Lei and Choy.
Of these five styles only the Hung Ka Kiin was able to expand considerably due to its close bond with the revolutions in the south of China against the manchú dynasty of the Ching in which its creator Hung Hei Kung or Hong Xi Kuan participated. The other four styles didn't had the same luck and nowadays it is very difficult to find them in their original state, such is the case of the style Lau Ka Kiin which forms have been included in the Hung style; of the Lei style which techniques have been included in the Choy Lei Fat and of the very Choy style which techniques, forms and philosophy have passed to form part of styles like the Chow Ka, Jow Ka, Choy Lei Fat and Wing Chung.
At the moment the Choy is a practically unknown style, and we only have news it is trained as system in Peru (Society Chung Shan), Sweden (Choy Gar Kung Fú Klubben) and Cuba (Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú). it is wrapped in a mystery and secret halo, and although it is mentioned in almost all the stories of the Kung Fú of the South of China almost nobody has real knowledge of its forms and techniques.
Technically the Choy is a medium-short style, based on the movements of the rat and the snake and it is famous for its agile displacements. Different tendencies and modalities exist inside the same style, the one that is practiced in Matanzas is distinguished for its blockades in " hook ", the fist with the second join of the hand or “snake fist”, the wide use of the postures Pen Kai Ma or “kneeling horse”, Sam Ko Ma or “horse of the three angles” and the preference for diagonal kicks. It was introduced in Cuba by the Master Lei Tchoy in the first quarter of the XX century and except for one year in which it was openly taught to nearly 40 students, it has never counted with more than five practitioners for generation, what makes it an exclusive and exotic art for most of the martial artists.
It is for that reason that without caring in what country the school is, the teaching of the Choy has always had as fundamental precept the high moral, the ethics, the humility and the responsibility towards the other human beings.
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The Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei
The Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei was founded in 1930 by a group of masters among which were the Master Lei Tchoy (Choy Ka Kiin) and the Master Lei Bu(Hung Ka Kiin) as martial and sport society in the Havana Chinatown. It’s name means literally: "Martial arts of the Chinese Community ". Years later was brought from Canton (Kwong Tong) the Master Wong Key, recognized as “Master of Masters” and that‚ as has been said‚ it dominated an infinity of styles and weapons of the South of China.
As all the Chinese societies of its time, the Jag Yu Wei only accepted Chinese or its descendants as students. For this reason the teaching of the Kung Fú that there was practiced was restricted and it never arrived at least to the twenty practitioners including those that acted in the opera that although they received some knowledge of martial arts, they were not instructed in the true secrets of the Mou Sot (Wu Shu in Cantonese). This strict selection system guaranteed for many years the conservation in its purer state of the multiple styles that there were practiced‚ and it transformed into legend those Masters that closed the doors of the school at nights and practiced the techniques brought from the distant China.
There are so many stories that have been passed down about the confrontations between the Masters of the Jag Yu Wei with gangsters and the challenges with other Masters of Kung Fú that would make us remember the China of the XIX century, so full with heroes and legendary duels.
The school was also very famous for its cultural impact in the Chinatown, example of that was its Dance of the Lion that had the honor of being the first one exhibited in Cuba in the year 1930, during the ceremony of foundation of the own school, and among other special occasions, in 1954 during the only procession of the hero's statue Kwang Kung for the Havana Chinatown.
The Jag Yu Wei survived until the year 1960. Its Masters aged, and they began to die, with the danger that it got lost their inheritance. Already in the 50s the Master Wong Key had died, in 1986 dies Lei Bu, and lastly Lei Tchoy in 1999.
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The Choy Ka Kiin in Cuba after the JYW
After the disappearance of the Jag Yu Wei, seemed that the inheritance of the old school had been drained. Fortunately, years before their death, the masters Lei Bu first, and Lei Tchoy later, they bequeathed their knowledge to a descendant of Chinese, Faro González Argudín.
The Master Lei Tchoy it also accepted some non Chinese students, among those were the current Professor Aníbal Rodríguez Reyes who was instructed in the style Choy Ka Kiin. In the beginnings of the nineties, this one requested authorization from the Master to open a small school of Choy Ka in the city of Matanzas, capital of the province of the same name located at 100Km of Havana, which lasted for hardly a year because Professor Aníbal decided to unite to the Academy Nam Pai Kung Fú of the Master Wong Yi Man as instructor of the style Fat Ka Kiin, for what was stopped the succession of the Choy of Jag Yu Wei.
Meanwhile, an old student that had been able to appropriate during the year of existence of the Matanzas school of some knowledge of the Choy style, and that had also been integrated to the “Nam Pai", Yhanco Monet Rodríguez, began to instruct Carlos Abel Olivera Rodríguez in the styles Choy Lei Fat and Hung Ka Kiin, until later guided him in his first steps for the Choy Ka Kiin. After having culminated his studies of Choy Ka with the professor Yhanco Monet, in the year 1999, and anxious to increase his knowledge, Carlos A. Olivera is presented before the professor Aníbal Rodríguez who accepted him as student in its school of Fat Ka. With the time, the professor Aníbal began to instruct him in the style Choy Ka Kiin of the Master Lei Tchoy, specifically in the use of the cane of Siu Lam and the butterfly knives.
In the year 2001, the Professor Aníbal Rodríguez recommends Carlos A. Olivera to visit in the Havana Chinatown his bigger brother Faro González who was the Master Lei Tchoy's closer pupil in his last 20 years of life. The Professor Faro González instructed Carlos A. Olivera in the techniques of Doi Kung (internal energy), the philosophy of life and combat of the most traditional Choy Ka Kiin, and also, it put it in contact with the history of the Jag Yu Wei.
During the second half of the 2000, in the search for other practitioners of the Choy style, Carlos A. Olivera finds by the Internet the Sifu (Master) Adolfo Alstersund, Peruvian resided in Sweden, master in the style Choy Ka Kiin of the region of Chung Shan, which accepted him as pupil. An exchange that brought 20 young practitioners of the style Choy to Matanzas began this way and thanks to which both schools, in Stockholm and Matanzas, maintain a fruitful and intense exchange with the intention to conserve and to expand the Choy Ka style.
Nowadays the style is only known in Cuba by three people: Faro González Argudín, Aníbal Rodríguez Reyes and Carlos Abel Olivera Rodríguez, and it is only practiced at the Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú school, in charge of this last one, named this way in honor to the Master Lei Tchoy
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The Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú school
The Lei Tchoy Choy Ka Kung Fú is the school of the Choy Ka Kiin or Choy Gar Kuen of Cuba, resided in the city of Matanzas, capital of the province of the same name and that it gathers a group of practitioners resolved to conserve the legacy of the old masters of the Choy. It arises definitively at the beginning of the year 2004, after some years of sporadic existence. Heiress of the Master Lei Tchoy and of the Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei´s legacy, rises as rampart of the Mou Sot or traditional Kung Fú in Cuba, being one of the few schools of the style Choy outside of China
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Kung Fú in Cuba
In Cuba the history of the Kung Fú goes back to the XIX century, because the first Chinese warriors arrived as prisoners in the time of the colony. They were members of the great rebellion of the Thai Ping that was about to overthrow completely the Ching dynasty. Already at the beginning of the XX century the schools that concentrated to most of the masters of the of Havana Chinatown were founded: the Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei, and the school belonging to the Min Chi Tong society.
Masters like Wong Key, Lei Tchoy, Lei Bu for Jag Yu Wei and Emilio Chann for Min Chi Tong stood out for its big martial abilities.
Nevertheless their great level and development, the Chinese martial arts stayed in the strait circle of the natural Chinese and their descendants. It was only after the decade of the sixty that some as Rufino Alay (old practitioner of Jag Yu Wei) began to teach this art to the non Chinese. Also Master Lei Tchoy in the last years of his life bequeathed his knowledge to some Cubans.
By the middle of the decade of the ninety arrives to Cuba the Master Wong Yi Man, and he founds the Academy Nam Pai Kung Fú that extended for the whole country and lasted for some years.
At the moment it is known in the whole nation a huge number of traditional styles, fundamentally from the south of China as the Choy Ka Kiin, Hung Ka Kiin, Fat Ka Kiin, Choy Lei Fat and Wing Chung Kiin; also some from the north, as the Zha Chuan, Si Kua Chuan, Pei Shaolin Chuan and Thai Chi Chuan. There are also practiced the modern modalities of the Wu Shu fundamentally in Havana.
Up to where we have knowledge schools of these exist in the provinces of Havana, City, Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Granma and Santiago de Cuba. But in spite of all the carried out inquiries, many practitioners and styles of Kung Fú still remains in the anonymity, integrating quietly the mosaic of the martial culture that the old Chinese warriors bequeathed us.
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Master Lei Tchoy
The Master Lei Tchoy (Rafael Lei) was born in the year 1900, in the region of Toi San, province of Kwong Tong in the south of China. His martial life began when he was eight years-old in the style Hung Ka Kiin that practiced up to the 11 when he changed to the Choy style. At age of 19 he emigrates toward Cuba with “advanced student's” degree. Here he carried out multiple works and it trafficked for several regions of the country until settling down finally in Havana. In 1930, he founded together with Lei Bu and other masters the Chen Bu Jag Yu Wei with the purpose of to conserve and to perpetuate the Chinese martial arts in Cuba.
It was very well-known and respected in the Havana Chinatown (that was the second bigger in America by that time) for his great martial abilities, and there are many legends that have been knitted around his person speaking about his powerful blockades and his domain of the Dig Mok or “blow of the death”. He always knew how to assume the responsibility of being a Master, and the commitment that this bears towards his community, for what was wrapped in several confrontations that transformed him practically into the guardian of his compatriots.
It was specialist in the use of the blockade in “hook”, the fist with the second joint of the hand (snake fist), the posture of kneeling or “Pen Kai Ma”, the oblique kicks or “Fan Kiack” and the handling of the broadsword or “ tou”.
He died in the year 1999 to the advanced age of 99 years-old, after bequeathing great part from his knowledge to his students.
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/Snieeke!