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Grand Master John Chung Li |
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Chung Li was an internationally renowned Internal Martial Arts Grand
Master. He was immensely skilled in the three major Internal Martial
Arts systems. He was highly distinguished and respected by the greatest
internal martial arts masters of his time, including the famous
T'ai-Chi Masters T.T. Liang and Cheng Man-ch'ing who are credited with
bringing the Yang T'ai-Chi system to America.
Grand Master Li began his Kung Fu training at the
age of 18 at the Chin Woo Athletic Association of Shanghai. He studied
many styles of Kung Fu before settling on Lop Hop Pak Fat (Liu Ho Pa
Fa). He became an instructor and master of the art and taught in Hong
Kong for many years. Master Li moved to the United States in 1969 and
called the art Hwa-Yu T'ai Chi Ch'uan Kung Fu.
Master Li instructed the internal health care
science of Hwa-Yu T'ai Chi and the advanced Chi Kung exercises of the
"One Yin Circle Palm Internal Art" to many university students around
the country including Yale, Harvard, MIT, BU and the New England
Medical Center. He instructed more than 700 seriously committed
students while living in America. He translated the "Five Word Song 134
Verses" and produced a pictorial training manual thoroughly detailing
the coveted elite self-defense movement patterns of Lop Hop Pak Fat
calling the art "Yon Ch'uan" (Soft Fist, Cotton Over Steel). Grand
Master Li was head of the Hwa-Yu T'ai Chi Health Institute in
Chinatown, Boston, Massachusetts. He passed the legacy of Yon Ch'uan
Martial Arts and Hwa-Yu T'ai Chi Ch'uan to Master Robert Xavier in
1980. Grand Master Li died two years later.
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