History of The Pak Mei Clan The martial arts of the Pak Mei Clan originated from the

Shaolin Buddish Monastery, Sung Shan, Henan Province, China, Buddish Monk Pak Mei, the eldest of the five elders of Shaolin in the Ching Dynasty was regarded as the first generation of the Pak Mei Clan, the Pak Mei Martial Arts were assed from Buddish Monk Pak Mei to Buddish Monk !wong "ai who was regarded as the second generation, from Buddish Monk !wong "ai to Buddish Monk Chuk #ai "an who was regarded as the third generation, from Buddish Monk Chuk #at "an to great $rand $rand Master Cheung %ai Chuen who was regarded as &elonging to the fourth generation and from $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung %ai Chuen to his son Cheung Ping %am who was regarded as &elonging to the fifth generation' The first, second and third generations of the Pak Mei Clan were all Buddish Monks' The Pak Mei Martial Arts did not s read to the secular world until they had &een assed to $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung %ai Chuen' The first erson to s read wildly and &rilliantly of the Pak Mei Martial Arts in the secular world was $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung %ai Chuen who was &orn during the reign of (m eror !wong Shui at the end of the Ching Dynasty in "eiyang District, Dong )iang, $uangdong Province, China' He commenced to learn martial arts at the age a&out Thirteen years and learned three different styles of martial arts in the Dong )iang area from three famous !ung #u masters who were Master Shek, Master %ee *ee and Master %am Ah Ho , the disci le of Buddish Monk *uk Shing of the "ah Sou Buddish Monastery, %aw #au Shan, $uangdong Province, China' All the three famous Master raised him and indicated that he should esta&lish his own gymnasium to teach students' As $reat $rand $rand Master was still young at the time, he referred not to teach martial arts &ut went to $uang+hou for good at a&out the age of nineteen years' ,n $uang+hou he accidentally got to know a Buddish Monk called %in Sang and had the chance of having a friendly com&at with Monk %in Sang' "ho then defeated him' $reat $rand $rand Master hum&ly re-uested Monk %in Sang to acce t him as a disci le, &ut he was refused' %ater he learned from Monk %in Sang that the martial arts used to defeat him had &een assed to Monk %in Sang &y Buddish Monk Chuk #at "an and &oth Monks toured a&out in the $uangdong Province from the Sichuan Province and were then staying in the !wong Hau Buddish Monastery, $uang+hou, Monk %in Sang &rought $reat $rand $rand Master to the Monastery and introduced him to Monk Chuk #at "an who finally acce ted $reat $rand $rand Master as his disci le to learn the Pak Mei Martial Arts after having &egged lengthily for it, thereafter $reat $rand $rand Master followed Monk Chuk #at "an to tour a&out, learn and ractice the Pak Mei Martial Arts' After two odd years of hard learning and ractice and an account of $reat $rand $rand Master.s talent in understanding martial arts, $reat $rand $rand Master learned all the Pak Mei Martial Arts e/ce t the techni-ue gravel shooting and o&tained their vitalities' Then Monk Chuk #at "an and Monk %in Sang returned to their Buddish Monastery in the Sichuan Province and $reat $rand $rand Master returned to "ei+hou to 0oin his mother' Thereafter $reat $rand $rand Master 0oined the revolutionary team of "ong "ar Shun against the Ching Dynasty in Dong )iang area and took art in the revolutionary &attle in "ong #at !ong of $uang+hou' The revolutionists were defeated heavily and most of them lost their lives, $reat $rand $rand Master was fortunate for not &eing killed and he esca ed from $ang+hou to his native lace'

After the esta&lishment of the 1e u&lic of China, in )iang Men Town of the Sun "ui District, $reat $rand $rand Master aided Detective Ca tain %ui Chan to confront a leader of the salt smugglers, $reat $rand $rand Master fight with the leader who was highly roficient in !ung #u, &roke the %eader.s arm and arrested him for the Ca tain' As a result $reat $rand $rand Master got his restige in the Sun "ui District and started his teaching of martial art in )iang Men Town' ,n )iang Men Town $reat $rand $rand Master acce ted the challenge of !ung #u Master Chan Sau who had defeated several !ung #u masters in )iang Men Town and won him, thus $reat $rand $rand Master was further raised &y the martial arts community there' %ater $reat $rand $rand Master tried to solve some ro&lems for one of his students and was forced to involve in a fight confronting more than fifty &ad characters, during the fight he knocked down several ersons, it was heard that one of them had &een unched &y him with his hoeni/ eye fist at the throat and died of the in0ury' To avoid trou&le $reat $rand $rand Master was forced to leave )iang Men Town for $uang+hou' ,n $uang+hou $reat $rand $rand Master set u his !ung #u school to teach Pak Mei Martial Arts again at 2n "ide %ane, during which time $reat $rand $rand Master defeated !ung #u Master Tsang "ai Pok who had closed several !ung #u schools in $uang+hou &y overcoming the masters thereof' $reat $rand $rand Master.s victory shocked the martial arts community there and gained his restige in $uang+hou' A lot of students followed him to learn the Pak Mei Martial Arts causing the 0ealousy of some of the !ung #u masters' 3ltimately while $reat $rand $rand Master was carrying his infant son and walking along a street, a grou of seven to eight assassins tried to kill him with knives and guns' $reat $rand $rand Master knocked down several of them and took one of them as his shield, it was fortunate that the olicemen were accidentally near&y to give assistance and arrested those &eing knocked down' The incidence was widely re orted &y the news a ers in $uang+hou and honored $reat $rand $rand Master with the title of 4The #ierce Tiger of Tung !ong5 which made him well know in $uang+hou' Thereafter $reat $rand $rand Master was em loyed &y the $uang+hou Police Training School, the *in Tong College and the "ham oa Military College one after the other as their martial arts training officer' During his em loyment in the "ham oa Military College he esta&lished a set of techni-ue for fighting &y using the rifle fi/ed with the knife and was res onsi&le for training the famous &y sa&er team a art from erforming other duties' Many military officers also ersonally &ecame his disci les in learning the Pak Mei Martial Arts, such as the Security Commander of the $uangdong Province, $eneral "ai Chun #ook and Colonel %iu Chun *at who died for China in the 6anking Battle against the )a anese army During the war against the )a anese $reat $rand $rand Master was em loyed as the martial arts trainer of the guerilla &and of %eung !wai Ping in Dong )iang area' After the war he was em loyed as the martial arts training officer of the Secret Agents De artment in the $uangdong Province' "hen $uang+hou was a&out to &e li&erated, for &eing a military officer of the 1e u&lic of China he &rought with his three sons, Cheung Ping Sum, Cheung Ping %am and Cheung Ping #at to migrate to Hong !ong, then some of his disci les also came to Hong !ong' ,t was from that time onward the Pak Mei Martial Arts were formally &rought to Hong !ong and starting to &e s read in Hong !ong $reat $rand $rand Master assed away in Hong !ong at the age of eighty odd years in 789:' During his time in Hong !ong he only taught a&out twenty odd disci les, &ut it has now &een develo ed that mem&ers of the Pak Mei Clan can &e found in

many arts of the world and the Pak Mei Martial Arts may have &een assed on to the ninth generation nowadays' $reat $rand $rand Master com&ated with many !ung #u masters during his lifetime and defeated all of them' Many of his o onents admired the Pak Mei Martial Arts after their failure and &ecame his disci les such as Master Chan Sau and master Tsang "ai Pok aforesaid, and $reat $rand $rand Master was very willing to ass the Pak Mei Martial Arts to them' After the death of the $reat $rand $rand Master, mem&ers of the fifth generation of the Pak Mei Clan held meetings and elected his son Cheung Ping %am as the Head of the Pak Mei Clan' Master Cheung Ping %am is the second son of the $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung %ai Chuen' $reat $rand $rand Master taught Master Cheung Ping %am the Pak Mei Martial Arts since his childhood' Master firstly erformed martial arts in the "ham oa Military College at the age of seven years and started to teach the Pak Mei Martial Arts at the age of eighteen years' Amongst the disci les and sons of the $reat $rand $rand Master, his son Cheung Ping %am is the one who s ent the longest time to learn the Pak Mei Martial Arts from the $reat $rand $rand Master and research the Pak Mei Martial Arts with the $reat $rand $rand Master' During the old age of the $reat $rand $rand Master in Hong !ong, Master usually stayed &y his side to make research of martial arts with him and taught for and on &ehalf of the $reat $rand $rand Master some of his disci les the Pak Mei Martial Arts' Master has devoted all his lifetime to martial arts and o&tained all the vitalities and im ortance of the Pak Mei Martial Arts' He has taken u the teaching of the Pak Mei Martial Arts as his life career and fre-uently teaches the mem&ers of the fifth and si/th generations of the Pak Mei Clan the Pak Mei Martial Arts for the ur ose of romoting them to the higher level' Thus Master was elected as the Head of the Pak Mei Clan an account of his doings and restige' He has selected to teach good -uality disci les of a smaller num&er rather than &ad -uality students of a larger num&er and teaches his selected disci les of all known &y him without reserve' ,n 7888 Master has attained the age of seventy;three years' ,n order to show res ect and gratefulness to Master Cheung Ping %am, several of his disci les gathered a sum of money to urchase a landed ro erty of a&out 7,<== s-uare feet situated at Tsimshatsui, !owloon, Hong !ong in 78>9 for Master to have a ermanent lace of teaching and in #e&ruary, 78>> they also esta&lished the Pak Mei %ai Chuen Martial Arts Association %imited' The mem&ers of the Association are the disci les of Master Cheung Ping %am within the ast fifteen years, each of them has decent 0o& and is without undesira&le &ackground' Amongst them, there are accountant, lawyer, olice su erintendent, olice chief ins ector, civil servant, manufacturer, merchant, e/ecutive and artist, and Master Cheung Ping %am is the ermanent governor of the Association' At resent there are only left surviving several mem&ers of the fifth generation and even the youngest one has attained the age of si/ty;nine years'

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$rand Master 6g *iu constant ractice of martial arts, he en0oys e/cellent health' At the old age, his kung fu movements are still e/tremely &risk and owerful' ,n arallel to his su er& mastery of Pak Mei kung fu, his martial ethic is e-ually well known' He is highly res ected as an outstanding kung fu master in &oth the Pak Mei family and the general martial art circle in Hong !ong' He came from 6an Hoi district of !wong Tung Province' At the age 7A, he learned kung fu from the $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung %ai; Chuen' He was tall and of sturdy &uild' $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung was dee ly im ressed &y his loyalty and diligence in racticing' He gave him constant encouragement and e/tra coaching in Pak Mei kung fu' A few years later, he &ecame $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung.s distinguished disci le' He was soon a ointed &y the $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung.s to head the first &ranch of the %ai;Chuen kung fu association at !wei;tong street, Canton and to teach in the military academy' At that time, the %ai;chuen kung fu association of the Pak Mei school develo ed and e/ ended ra idly' There were 7> &ranches altogether in Canton' Many other kung fu were also com eting strongly for ground and re utation' 2ne would find it e/tremely difficult to survive and esta&lish if without genuinely high standard in martial arts' *et' "ith his sheer mastery of Pak Mei kung fu, $rand Master 6g stood u to com etition, understand' As a matter of fact, he was $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung.s right hand man' Due to his achievement and esta&lishment, he was highly res ected and so a&le to act as a trou&le;shooter within the kung fu circle' Throughout his career, he has &een ut into numerous tough and real tests' To mention a few, the following were included' ,n 78<= &ecause of the olitical uncertainty, social order was very &ad, the %ong;&each area in Canton, in articular, Travellers commuters and sho kee ers near&y were harassed &y the underworld &ased at the docks' ,t ha ened that one of $rand Master 6g students owned a sho in the area' He was no e/ce tion and had to inform Master 6g a&out the case' So, Master 6g went to negotiate with the gangsters' But, they were so unreasona&le that they turned out to attack him' The one in the front cho ed at him with &ig cho er' As soon as he had avoided the attack &y retreating a ste &ackward, he gave the attacker a lighting right side; kick at his waist' The force was so owerful that the thug tum&led and fell a few meters away' Then another one came forward from the left' After the right side;kick, $rand Master 6g tilted his &ody slightly to &alance and then made a similar side;kick on the left' Again, the attacker fell hel lessly as he received the momentous im act' The rest fled' Social order im roved conse-uently in the %ong;&each area' After this incident, $rand Master 6g &ecame famous in Canton' 2n the other hand, Pak Mei kung fu also &ecame well known throughout the city' ,t ha ens that the chained directional side;kick are 0ust some of Pak Mei owerful leg a lications' Two years later' The olitical scene was more settled, &ut, in Ho;6am of Canton, underworld influence was still felt' 6ear the Hoi Tung Tem le and Hung #ook district it was a mi/ed area' A grou called 4The #our !ings and $eneral Hunt and $eneral Hah5 ran a vice racket there' 6ot only asking for rotection money from the locals, they often &eat u tourists visiting the &eautiful holiday resort' #or this reason, an amusement ark owner had to em loy reluctantly their fellow gangsters as gate;kee ers Ho ing that harassments would then cease' However, this gave them a further &oost in morale' Thing did not im rove, &ut worsened' ,n the end, the owner had to turn to $rand Master 6g for hel ' The latter then went to the amusement ark alone to settle the matter with the two tough guys' He was immediately surrounded &y the gangsters as he ste ed into the ark' Their leaders came forward and gra&&ed $rand Master 6g.s arms while the other

were a&out to attack' He reali+ed that that to &reak through, he must a ly the genuine techni-ues' So he first e/erted a owerful and sudden inward ull' The two guys were drawn off their &alance, falling forward' They were su&se-uently flung out &y his forceful left;right lower outward &locks' Having defeated the two leaders, he could then concentrate on the rest of the gangsters one &y one and got away' The story of this fight once again s read fast throughout Canton' The city fell into )a anese hands soon after %ou!ouchiao ? %oo Chow Bridge @ ,ncident, in 78<>' $rand Master 6g was assisting $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung to train the soldiers in the military academy after having retreated' They taught charging techni-ues using rifles, and trained the 4&ig cho er S-uad5 Both were found useful and efficient on the &attlefield' Toward the end of the Sino;)a anese "ar' $rand Master 6g was a ointed to work in the intelligence division of the Commando S-uad' He had won a few awards for his outstanding achievements' He had also racticed the traditional her&s treatments throughout the year' The tragic war ended in 78:A after the )a anese surrendered' He returned to Canton and restarted his &usiness' ,n his s are time, he hel ed the $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung to develo the kung fu school' The latter was very roud of his remarka&le achievements in martial art and had therefore made known that he was his most distinguished disci le' He always encouraged and reminded him to ursue the true s irit of chivalry and endurance' ,n 78:8, he followed the $reat $rand $rand Master to Hong !ong' "ith his vast knowledge and e/ erience in medical her&s, he set u his clinic to ractice her&s treatments on the !owloon side' As for the $reat $rand $rand Master, he was invited &y many village leaders from the new Territories to set u school to teach martial art' Again, $rand Master 6g was very active in assisting to develo and romote Pak Mei kung fu' Three years later, a rather famous kung fu instructor also came to Hong !ong from Canton' He was agitated &y someone with malicious intention to defame the Pak Mei school' He often claimed that if you wanted to &ecome famous, all you had to do was to defeat the Pak Mei school' And, to defeat that school, you must first defeat nd $raMaster 6g' But, $reat $rand $rand Master Cheung took all these slanders with a smile' However, they got worse and distasteful as they s read around' $rand Master 6g was infuriated' He had found out that instructor used to lunch in a articular restaurant in Shum Shui Po' Having found him there, $rand Master 6g -uestioned him a&out its truth and suggested a dual to determine su eriority &etween themselves' *et' That instructor was scared of $rand Master 6g.s achievement in martial art and had to a ologies' $rand Master 6g acce ted it and so a fight was avoided' After the death of the $reat $rand $rand Master, he &ecame the leading veteran of the Pak Mei School' A similar incident arose in 78A:' At that time, he was res onsi&le for the further develo ments of Pak Mei kung fu, which was already ros ering in Hong !ong' Another kung fu teacher intended to achieve fame through the same trick' He got to know $rand Master 6g through a her&alist friend' He had learned kung fu from many different schools' (very evening, he discussed and racticed kung fu in a near&y Buddhist tem le with his friends' 2ne day, $rand Master 6g was having luncheon with the instructor together' After lunch, they went to the her&alist clinic' That kung fu teacher &egan to &oast of his kung fu skills intending to invite $rand Master 6g for a fight' ,t was natural to learn and im rove in this way, roviding all arties o&served the true s irit of martial ethics' The teacher maintained he himself was very fast and could fling $rand Master 6g on to the ground easily' $rand Master 6g took a more cautious and defensive a roach' He then set u a 4&lockade5 with his two fists covering the middle art of the &ody while &ending his waist slightly' Because of such

o&struction, that instructor found it difficult and too late to change his tactic' ,n the meantime, $rand Master 6g ste ed forward a lying a frontal unch' ,t was a s ecial unch which released force like a tensioned s ring' ,t is a ty ical Pak Mei unch' The teacher tum&led and fell &y the wall' The force was so violent that some framed icture on the wall also came down and shattered' The s ectators on the s ot were startled' ,t took him a long while to recover' He was dee ly ashamed and had to concede the su eriority of Pak Mei kung fu' ,t ha ened that $rand Master 6g was so &road;minded that he stoo ed the re orters from releasing this incident' This well e/ lains why he has won the res ect and esta&lished his osition inside the kung fu circle in Hong !ong' "aiting #or Master "illiam History Born in 78:> Pass in B==: A ril A9 years' Si fu Simon %ui Si #u Simon %ui was &orn in 78AC, Hong !ong, China' He was fascinated with the ractice of martial arts from a very young age, &ut to his misfortune, his family was not entirely su ortive of this ractice &ecause it was not 4realistic5' Since moving to Toronto, Canada in 78CB, Si #u Simon was finally a&le to ursue his life.s. dream and started to devote his life to learning, and mastering, the various kinds !ung #u that were availa&le to him' He was first under the tutelage of Master "ong %eung ? @, from whom he learned the "ing Chun ? @ style' "ithin a few months, Si #u Simon also learned the techni-ues of Hung ?@ style from Master %uk Can "ing ?@' He s ent an entire year mastering these two techni-ues, refining his osture to a&solute erfection' ,n 78C:, Simon landed a 0o& where he coincidentally found out that an elder co;worker, Master %um Hung ? @ was not only into the ractice of !ung #u, &ut was e/tremely good at it' After seven months of constant, daily ersuasion, Master %um Hung finally invited Simon to his home' Since that day, Master %um Hung and Si #u Simon %ui &ecame teacher and student for the ne/t A years' Master %um Hung instructed Si #u Simon in Pak Mei ?@ style' Si #u Simon devoted himself into mastering this techni-ue, s ending > hours a day racticing, refining and erfecting it' 3nfortunately, Si #u Simon and Master %um Hung needed to go their se arate ways' Si #u Simon traveled to 6ew *ork, where he was rivileged enough to meet another devout !ung #u ractitioner, Master "ong !wok "ai ?@, from whom he learned the "hite Crane ?@ style, and also the many different uses of Chinese her&al medicine' "ithin : years, Si #u Simon com leted his course in Chinese Medicine, and within the B years after that, com leted his course in Chinese Her& #acial and other different Chinese her&al treatment systems' ,n 78>B, Si #u Simon started creating his own Dit Da treatments, using the various methods learned in the courses he took, and analy+ing the articular need of the atient and creating a treatment customi+ed for these singular cases' A few years later, Si #u Simon chanced to meet Master %um Hung again, and they worked together for over B= years' During this time, Si #u Simon never slowed in his assion and continued to refine his !ung #u and Chinese medicinal ractices' He also took the

o ortunity to travel across many states in an attem t to e/ and the ractice of !ung #u' Today, Si #u Simon has hundreds of students across Canada and the 3nited States' He en0oys s reading his knowledge, and watching others &ecome healthier, and &etter eo le, through his tutelage' !ung #u is a form of e/ercise which takes dedication and teaches one disci line' ,t trains the &ody and mind as a whole' Si #u Simon is roud to see some of his students well on their way to &ecoming their own master of !ung #u' Still, to this day, he does not tire of involving himself, in every way ossi&le, in the art of !ung #u and Chinese her&ology' His life.s dream and assion, is lived in him, through his students' ?3 3?G@e@ 78AC , , ' %m&xM&, ]%& , %&J 6, , )' ( 78CB [, 3?G@'%&@&, {|U &@C, ( cq' 3%xM3&, %OC&?@ , MD, 3?G@4 QJ3, %RKx9, &, `' 78C: , 3?G@( Hs, xM" , , % x, C MD&, , %J, xWk, '3?G@\,3'C@' ( 3&, 3?G@X, 6, 3, , t, 3 ?9, R> M, W+, '' &, 3?G@'%X3 &V, 3?G@F, ( %^~&xM3, 3, %%CX &, ^ &I, ( : [, 3?G@\K%&, ( B ., \K%&('% , 78>B , 3?@G{ |T&, %I(Cb, %', &, TM& , &!"' ., 3?G@4'%3 4p\, '%xkK B= , (gs, 3 ?G@E#$%&%p' &%&'C6, %'g(Q()J *K, +,-[)*&, VW, 3?G@^./0&C@([', %12% &3-4, 56%*78, &, S%&, x9b&:;, , <=, xC>, ?@A&B'C&B, 3?G@)D6x%&C @t%&b\,+, ZH, xW, % Et&FG, (xM'&b , 3?G@sztszCHI'