Reproduced my Sifu's article-Recollect my respected Sifu Kwow Fu
October 26, 2011 Grievous news
In the morning, I suddenly received a call from my SiDai, Cheng, and said that my Sifu Kwow Fu had passed away.I was shocked by this grievous news. I came home, hasty and hurried to the airport.
In fact, during the national day, I received a phone call from Cheng, he said Sifu was ill. I didn't expect Sifu had passed away in a short span of 20 days.
Fighting
Sitting on the plane and closing my eyes, I begin to remember the memory with my Sifu.I remember it was a summer night in the 1996, and my SiHing and I were practicing Wing Chun at the Wing Chun school of Sifu Lun Kah, after a while one man with three young men came to the here,they talked something with Sifu Lun Kah. Suddenly, Sifu Lun Kah asked everyone to stop and said these three men would like to challenge us with Chi sau. They first sent a young man to ask for a Chi sau challenge with my SiHing Hua. Hua and I were both small, with no advantage in shape, but he was very quick.When their hands touched, Hua Suddenly attacked with Phoenix eye punches, beat the opponent's retreat, that young man had to ask for stopping.After the two sides stopped, they hurriedly let the young man take off his coat to check the injury. they found that the young man had six or seven deep red spots on his chest. It was less than ten seconds before he had got six or seven hits of Hua.I saw that my SiHing Hua easily won.At that time, I was young and I thought I can easily win too.Then they sent a middle-age-man to challenge me Chi sau. Maybe because the first round they lost,this time he attacked me very fast and made me just backward with Kwan sau to protect myself.He forced me to the door and stopped.We backed to the place and got ready for the second round.This time I did not give the opponent the opportunity to snatch my center line, but with the triangle horse walking 45 degrees, counter his head, because it is not a dead or alive fighting, I did not cause him hurt,the middle-aged man also stopped. Maybe he didn't feel he could win,After a while, they left.The next day is a weekend,SiHing Hua and I went to Sifu Lun Kah and practice Chi Sau as usual,Sifu Lun Kah talked about what happened last night when we took rest,he told us that he want to send two of us to his SiHing Kwow Fu to go deep in Wing Chun. We had been practicing Wing Chun with Sifu Lun Kah for more than three years,we often heard about master Kwow Fu from Sifu Lun Kah,and Sifu Lun Kah told us that master Kwow fu didn't teach wing chun to people for many years.We didn't think that Master Kwow Fu was willing to teach us both.
We were all very excited.Early in the morning next day,Sifu Lun Kah brought us to Kwow Fu's home in Ping Zhou. It was the first time I've seen him.A very kind old man, full of energy, the sound of his voice was loud, like a legendary martial arts master.From now we began to learn Wing Chun with Kwow Fu.
Me,SiHing Hua and Sifu Lun Kah
Sifu Lun Kah
The first day I practiced , the first time I lied
It was on Saturday,in the morning,me and SiHing Hua got to Sifu Kwow Fu's home on time,Sifu Kwow Fu required us to show Siu Nim Tao to him,after we finished,he didn't say anything,just ordered us to train what he told us to train,so we began to hard training.On that day,Sifu Kwow Fu taught us one movement called "Ju sun kuen" (Sideling punch), he went to sit on a arm chair and closed eyes to rest after he taught us the point of Ju sun kuen,rarely he would say something like "relax,pay attention to your horse etc".We dared not be lazy in front of him and we didn't stop until lunch time.At lunch time,we found that our hands couldn't stop trembling,we even couldn't hold chopsticks.There is no way to practice anymore with these hands,so we made a decision that we came back tomorrow morning.This is the first time and the last time I lied to my Sifu Kwow Fu,I told him I have to go back for work,I will come back for training tomorrow morning. Sifu Kwow fu let us go back with no doubt.This was the first day I had been with Sifu Kwow fu.
Ju sun kuen( Sideling punch)
On second morning,we went to Sifu Kwow fu on time again,Sifu required us to train Ju sun kuen just like what we did last day.We trained Ju sun kuen for whole day again and Sifu didn't say much things to us.We kept hard training Ju sun kuen day in and day out,over and over again for three months.In those days, me and Sifu became familiar, and often sat down together talking some funny things. After three months,Sifu told us he would let us become his disciples from now on and he wanted to teach everything he learned from Ip man to us unreservedly.Later I asked Sifu why he let us become his disciples after three months' Ju sun kuen training and why only this one movement?Sifu gave us the answer that was:"People who can't persist for just three months are not entitled to learn Wing Chun from me."
HongKong Tung Moon(Tung Moon means followers of the same style)
In those years of my training with Sifu Kwow Fu, HongKong Tung Moon often come to Foshan to visit Lun Kah and Kwow Fu, They were Ip Chun, Ng Chan, Li Ju, Xu Shangtian, Guan ju, Liu Gongcheng, Bu Jianhua, Leung Ting, Qin Zhiquan. Among them, Ip Chun, Li Ju, Ng Chan and Qin Zhiquan are the most close friends of Kwow Fu and Lun kah. Uncle Ng Chan was a very private person,he often talks Wing Chun with Sifu Kwow Fu,it was very hard to understand what they were talking about Wing Chun and I thought only them two can get the point to each other. Sifu told me and SiHing Hua and SiDai Cheng "your uncle Ng Chan is one of the best kungfu master,you three can share more experiences with him".Qin Zhiquan is the 3rd generation of Ip Man disciple,he is a tough guy,he was the one and the only Wing Chun person who won the championship in the international combat competition by Wing Chun techniques,Sifu likes him very much.And Sifu told me there was another uncle called Duncan leung who is the one of the best kungfu master too.But they have never meet each other before.One day I found a video tape of uncle Duncan leung's Wing Chun,Sifu told me"if you have chance you should share experiences with him as much as possible" after he finished watching his video tape even though he can not understand even one word in English.
Lun Kah,Kwow Fu,Ng Chan
Qin Zhiquan(right one)
Leave Foshan
In August 1999, I told Sifu Kwow Fu to leave Foshan to work in Chengdu, Sichuan. Sifu opposed me leaving Foshan and prepared to let me open a new Wing Chun school in his name.In the end, I decided to leave Foshan for reasons.I did not go to Sifu's home those days, and in these years we had established a relationship like father and son, and now I was going to leave him i was afraid to face him.
On the ten day before leaving, I received a call from Sifu and told me to call SiHing Hua to go to his home and say that there were two things to tell us. Sifu gave me eight books of medicine and one book of acupoint attacking. Four medicine books and one acupoint book are handed down by Leung Jan.Ip man gave those books to Sifu when Ip man left Foshan.
And Sifu told us the points of wooden dummy/Baat Jaam Dou/Luk Dim Bun Gwan for the last time.
Then I left Foshan.I remembered that day was August 26, 1999.During the time I worked in Chengdu,I came back for visiting Sifu two or three times a years.But today,Sifu has passed away.Only a few words of thought are in mind: Sifu,wish you will be happiness in heaven.
Quan
On a plane to Guangzhou from Chengdu.
October 26, 2011
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