Hung Gar

The Hung Gar curriculum of Wong Fei-Hung

The Hung Gar curriculum that Wong Fei-Hung learned from his father comprised Single Hard Fist, Double Hard Fist, Taming the Tiger Fist (???), Mother & Son Butterfly Knives (????), Angry Tiger Fist, Fifth Brother Eight Trigram Pole (?????), Flying Hook, and Black Tiger Fist (???).

Related Topics:
Butterfly Knives - Eight Trigram - Pole

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Wong distilled his father's empty-hand material along with the material he learned from other masters into the "pillars" of Hung Gar, four empty-hand routines that constitute the core of Hung Gar instruction in the Wong Fei-Hung lineage:

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"?" Character Taming the Tiger Fist ?????

pinyin: g?ng zì fú h? quán; Yale Cantonese: gung1 ji6 fuk6 fu2 kyun4

Related Topics:
Pinyin - Yale Cantonese

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: The long routine Taming the Tiger trains the student in the basic techniques of Hung Gar while building endurance. It is said to go at least as far back as Jee Sin, who is said to have taught Taming the Tiger—or at least an early version of it—to both Hung Hei-Gun and Luk Ah-Choi.

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Tiger Crane Paired Form Fist ?????

pinyin: h? hè shu?ng xíng quán; Yale Cantonese: fu2 hok6 seung1 ying4 kyun4

Related Topics:
Pinyin - Yale Cantonese

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: Tiger Crane builds on Taming the Tiger, adding "vocabulary" to the Hung Gar practitioner's repertoire. Wong Fei-Hung choreographed the version of Tiger Crane handed down in the lineages that descend from him. He is said to have added to Tiger Crane the bridge hand techniques and rooting of the master Tit Kiu Saam as well as long arm techniques, attributed variously to the Fut Gar, Luohan, and Lama styles. Tiger Crane Paired Form routines from outside Wong Fei-Hung Hung Gar still exist.

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Five Animal Fist ???/Five Animal Five Element Fist ?????

pinyin: w? xíng quán; Yale Cantonese: ng5 ying4 kyun4/pinyin: w? xíng w? xíng quán; Yale Cantonese: ng5 ying4 ng5 haang4 kyun4

Related Topics:
Pinyin - Yale Cantonese

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: These routines serve as a bridge between the external force of Tiger Crane and the internal focus of Iron Wire. "Five Animals" (literally "Five Forms") refers to the characteristic Five Animals of the Southern Chinese martial arts: Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon. "Five Elements" refers to the five classical Chinese elements: Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth. The Hung Gar Five Animal Fist was choreographed by Wong Fei-Hung and expanded by Lam Sai-Wing (???), a senior student and teaching assistant of Wong Fei-Hung, into the Five Animal Five Element Fist (also called the "Ten Form Fist"). In the Lam Sai-Wing branch of Hung Gar, the Five Animal Five Element Fist has largely, but not entirely, superseded the Five Animal Fist, which has become associated with Tang Fong and others who were no longer students when the Five Animal Five Element Fist was created.

Related Topics:
Five Animals - Five classical Chinese elements

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Iron Wire Fist ???

pinyin: ti? xiàn quán; Yale Cantonese: tit3 sin3 kyun4

Related Topics:
Pinyin - Yale Cantonese

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: Iron Wire builds internal power and is attributed to the martial arts master Tit Kiu Saam (???). Like Wong Fei-Hung's father Wong Kei-Ying, Tit Kiu Saam was one of the Ten Tigers of Canton. As a teenager, Wong Fei-Hung learned Iron Wire from Lam Fuk-Sing (???), a student of Tit Kiu Saam.

Related Topics:
Wong Kei-Ying - Ten Tigers of Canton

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Wong Fei-Hung was known for his Fifth Brother Eight Trigram Pole (?????), which can be found in the curricula of both the Lam Sai-Wing and Tang Fong branches of Hung Gar, two of the major branches of the Wong Fei-Hung lineage, as can the Spring & Autumn Guandao (????), and the Yiu Family Tiger Fork (????).

Related Topics:
Eight Trigram - Pole - Guandao

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Both branches also train the broadsword (?), the butterfly knives (??), the spear (?), and even the fan (?), but use different routines to do so.

Related Topics:
Broadsword - Butterfly knives

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Mother & Son Butterfly Knives (????) can still be found in the curriculum of the Tang Fong branch.

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