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In The Southern Tradition!

This is Hung-Ga, the art of five animals and five elements. Hung-Ga was started in the Shaolin Temple, forged in the fires of rebellion and distinguished itself as one of the five leading family styles of boxing from the South of China and arguably the most famous. This is the art of the incomparable Wong Fei Hung. The five animals are: tiger, crane, leopard, snake and dragon. The five elements are: fire, wood, water, earth and metal(gold).

Each animal provides a set of attributes to the boxer as well as a range of fighting techniques. They can be combined in various combinations, including with the elements to offer the boxer tremendous flexibility in dealing with a combative situation, and to allow each boxer to find those techniques and strategies that best fit the boxer's body type and temperament.

According to my sifu, Yee Chi Wai, "traditional" means to keep doing what you are doing. By regular, intensive training in the stances and bridges, for example, the boxer will over time, develop an extremely strong structure and root that will hold up under load, under the rigors of combat, and will help ensure that application of the techniques will be successful. After sufficient time and effort in Hung-style training, the boxer will have:

fists like a hammer
fingers like a sword
palm like a sabre
claw like an iron hook
iron horse, iron bridge
thousand pounds sitting

and gung-fu that is strong, but not slow, fast, but not weak. Our style is often mischaracterized as "slow and powerful" (a contradiction in terms if ever there was one) or merely "external". Those of us who practice this formidable style know how deep it goes. We know that every outer movement has a corresponding internal component. With lik gung for the outer body, and chi gung for the inner, it is truly a complete method for developing a proper Chinese boxer. Come inside and see more for yourself.

This is Hung-Ga in Western New York!

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