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    Sifu Shum began studying martial arts at age 8 under his godfather Ng Wai Nung. He practiced Eagle Claw and Tai Chi until age 16. Ng Wai Nung then taught in Singapore for 3 years, leaving Sifu Shum in charge of the school. In 1971, Sifu Shum immigrated to the US where he worked in a restaurant and taught privately. In 1972, he performed at a martial arts tournament and impressed Don Larkin, who became his first American student. In 1974, Sifu Shum and Don Larkin opened the first Eagle Claw school in the US, establishing the style in America.

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    Sifu Shum began studying martial arts at age 8 under his godfather Ng Wai Nung. He practiced Eagle Claw and Tai Chi until age 16. Ng Wai Nung then taught in Singapore for 3 years, leaving Sifu Shum in charge of the school. In 1971, Sifu Shum immigrated to the US where he worked in a restaurant and taught privately. In 1972, he performed at a martial arts tournament and impressed Don Larkin, who became his first American student. In 1974, Sifu Shum and Don Larkin opened the first Eagle Claw school in the US, establishing the style in America.

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    Sifu Shum began studying martial arts at age 8 under his godfather Ng Wai Nung. He practiced Eagle Claw and Tai Chi until age 16. Ng Wai Nung then taught in Singapore for 3 years, leaving Sifu Shum in charge of the school. In 1971, Sifu Shum immigrated to the US where he worked in a restaurant and taught privately. In 1972, he performed at a martial arts tournament and impressed Don Larkin, who became his first American student. In 1974, Sifu Shum and Don Larkin opened the first Eagle Claw school in the US, establishing the style in America.

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    Ying Jow Pai Grandmaster

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    Sifu Shum began studying martial arts at age 8 under his godfather Ng Wai Nung. He practiced Eagle Claw and Tai Chi until age 16. Ng Wai Nung then taught in Singapore for 3 years, leaving Sifu Shum in charge of the school. In 1971, Sifu Shum immigrated to the US where he worked in a restaurant and taught privately. In 1972, he performed at a martial arts tournament and impressed Don Larkin, who became his first American student. In 1974, Sifu Shum and Don Larkin opened the first Eagle Claw school in the US, establishing the style in America.

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    History

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    GRANDMASTER SHUM LEUNG 岑亮


    Sifu Shum started studying
    martial arts at the age of eight
    with Ng Wai Nung, his
    godfather, who had a small
    school in Kowloon and who
    trained his godson in both kung
    fu and tai chi. Sifu Shum
    practiced with his godfather until
    he was sixteen. When Ng Wai
    Nung was asked to teach Eagle
    Claw in Singapore for three
    years, Sifu Shum and his training
    brother, Shum Man Lock, were
    put in charge of the school until
    his return. When Ng Wai Nung
    returned from Singapore, Shum
    Man Lock went to Canton. Sifu Shum then helped his teacher until leaving for the
    United States in 1971.

    When Sifu Shum came to this country he


    knew no one. He worked in a restaurant in
    Chinatown, little by little widening his
    circle of friends and teaching privately. In
    1972 Master Wai Hong of the Tiger Claw
    system (Fu Jaw Pai) organized a
    tournament and invited Sifu Shum to
    perform and act as a judge. Don Larkin, Sifu Shum's first
    American student, was in the audience. He was so

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    impressed with Sifu Shum that he sought him out and asked
    Sifu Shum to teach him. He took private lessons from Sifu
    Shum for about one year, then in March 1974, helped Sifu
    Shum open the first Eagle Claw school in America on 28th
    Street In New York City. It was the beginning of the school's
    American history.

    History of Fan Zi Ying Jaw Pai.

    Originally the Eagle Claw system, whose complete history is


    told in Sifu Shum's book "Eagle Claw Kung Fu: Classical
    Northern Chinese Fist", was called Elephant style, a system
    of hand combat that Ngok Fei (Yue Fei), said to be the most
    brilliant general of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279
    AD), taught to his soldiers. The Song court had fled south of
    the Huai river, a tributary of the Yang Tse River, before the
    Jürched (a Siberian people who were the ancestors of the
    Manchus, the last rulers of China before the country became
    a Republic), w ho had conquered North China. The Song
    court set up its capital in Hang Chow. General Ngok Fei
    defeated the Jürched every time he fought them. Just
    hearing Ngok Fei's name filled the Jürched with terror.
    Ngok Fei was able to win victory after victory because he
    was a clever tactician, and above all because of the kung fu
    system he taught to his troops.

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    Ngok Fei (Yue Fei) was a junior officer
    who rose from the ranks of recruits.
    He was not only an excellent
    strategist, but also a scholar and
    always showed moral integrity and
    loyalty to the Emperor. He inspired
    discipline among his troops, won the
    people's support, succeeded in
    suppressing bandits who were
    roaming the land, and defeated the
    Jürched cavalry with infantry tactics.

    Unfortunately for Ngok Fei (Yue Fei), at that time Prime


    Minister Ch'in Kwei was working out a peace settlement
    with the Jürched. Ngok Fei's integrity and popularity were
    not only jeopardizing the peace accord, but also threatening
    a shaky regime, the Emperor being a lackluster ruler. Ch'in
    Kwei falsely accused Ngok Fei of insubordination and
    convinced the Emperor to order him back to the capital.
    Ngok Fei, who knew very well what was waiting for him,
    refused to obey. Three times he disregarded the imperial
    command. Finally the Emperor sent him a "gold edict" - an
    order that could not be ignored under penalty of death.
    Ngok Fei had no choice: he headed back to the capital. Once
    there, he was immediately thrown into prison where he was
    murdered. He was thirty-nine. It is widely believed that
    Ch'in Kwei engineered Ngok Fei's murder.

    Ngok Fei's soldiers, enraged at the grossly unfair


    punishment he had suffered, disbanded and continued
    training on their own. A monk named Lai Chin, who was
    already the master of his own system called Faan Tzi,
    happened to see Ngok Fei's former soldiers training during
    his travels. He recognized the value of their techniques and
    decided to incorporate them into his own system. Faan Tzi
    Eagle Claw was born: today it is known as the Northern
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    Eagle Claw system.

    Lai Chin taught Northern Eagle


    Claw to his student, another
    monk named Toa Gai, who in
    turn passed it on to one of his
    lay students, Lau Shing Yuo.
    The latter trained his son, Lau
    Kai Man (picture on the right),
    in the system. Originally, the
    Northern Eagle Claw system
    was to remain within the Lau
    clan and was not to be taught to
    outsiders. But Lau Kai Man
    taught it not only to his nephew
    in the Lau family, Lau Fat Man,
    but also to Chan Tzi Ching, his sister's son.

    Chan Tzi Ching founded the Ching Mo Kung Fu Association


    in Shanghai with his friend, Fawk Yun Gop. Other sifus soon
    joined the association. Chan Tzi Ching also went to Hong
    Kong to set up another Ching Mo Association, but he soon
    had to return to Shanghai and left the Hong Kong Ching Mo
    Association in the care of Lau Fat Man. Sifu Shum's teacher
    (our Sigong), Ng Wai Nung, trained extensively under Lau
    Fat Man.

    During the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), the Hong Kong


    Ching Mo Association was closed. Lau Fat Man spent the
    war teaching in Canton with Ng Wai Nung. After the war,
    Lau Fat Man went back to Hong Kong and taught for five
    years in the Restaurant Workers' Union. Ng Wai Nung also
    came back and taught in an opera actors' club and gave
    private lessons in both kung fu and tai chi.

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    Later Ng Wai Nung opened a school on
    Tai Po Road in Kowloon, where he
    taught until his death in 1992. Picture
    of Lau Fat Man with Ng Wai Nung is on
    the left.
    Great-Grandmaster Lau Fat Man also opened a school
    and later taught privately until his death in the mid-
    1960's. His daughters, Lily and Gini Lau still carry on
    their father’s art.

    Some additional information published


    on Taiping Institute of Singapore web
    site. According to the Yuejia Pu (Yue Family Annals), Yue
    Fei studied some straightforward striking methods, these
    are considered as the basics of BaFanMen, and to this day
    have been named Yue Jia Chui (Strikes of the Yue Family).
    Yue Jia Chui are the basics on which the latter style of Yue
    Jia Quan in the South (Hubei, Jiangxi provinces) is based
    upon, it is also the fundamentals of Ba Fan Men (also known
    as Ba Shan Fan, or Fanzi Quan).

    Bafanmen (Fanzi Quan) is quite an ancient style with its


    origins in Song dynasty. It was a highly influential style
    across the Central Plains mixing with many other methods
    and is the mother of Ying Zhao Fanzi (Eagle’s Claw) and was
    instrumental in the development by Li Luoneng (who had
    studied some of its methods) of Hebei Xing Yi Quan (thus
    the differences from the older Dai Family Xinyi and Xinyi
    Liuhe methods).

    Such a long history is difficult to trace so from the available


    records (the various family Quanpu or Boxing Manuals) we
    can determine key lineages commencing from the Ming
    Dynasty. Below we will provide information only relevant to
    Yingzhao Fanzi (Eagle Claw Fanzi Quan).
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    Facheng (法成) taught elements of Fanzi to Liu Shijun (Lai
    Chin ) called "Lian quan", who then combined with Ying
    Zhao Chin-na (or Yue Shi Sanshou). Liu Shijun (刘士俊) was
    from Xiong County, Hebei Province and taught Liu
    Chengyou (Lau Shing Yuo), Liu Dekuan, Xu Liu, Ji Zixiu, Ji
    De, Li Zhengsheng and others. Liu Shijun (Lai Chin ) was
    responsible for the development of the basic methods of Ba
    Fan Men including the Yuejia Chui being harnessed into the
    "Lian quan" (linked fists) methods of Eagle Claw.

    Liu Chengyou (刘成有 , Lau Shing Yuo) was from


    Guzhuangtou Village in Xiong County, Hebei Province.
    When he started trainig he first was introduced to the
    rudiments of boxing by "Flying Kicks" Yang JIngshan. He
    later studied with Liu Dekuan and Dong Xianzhou in
    Bafanzi Quan followed by further studies with Liu Shijun
    directly. Through his experiences Liu Chengyou enhanced
    the system by expanding the 36 locking methods into 108
    Qin Na, which became the key feature of the Eagle Claw
    branch. The key disciples of Liu Chengyou were Liu Qiwen,
    Chen Zicheng and Zhang Zhanwen.

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    Cheng Zicheng (陈
    子正, Chan Tzi
    Ching, 1878-1933）
    also known as
    Chen Jiping, was
    from Lilin Village
    in Xiong County,
    Hebei Province. He
    studied boxing
    methods since his
    youth and became
    a disciple of Liu
    Chengyou. Cheng
    Zicheng was
    known as the
    "Eagle's Claw
    King" and became
    an accomplished
    martial artist. He
    joined the Chin
    Woo Association
    (Jing Wu) and was sent to Hong Long to teach in their
    representative branch, he was also later asked to go to
    Singapore and not longer after his arrival was challenged by
    some british boxers in competition. After defeating him he
    was recognized by Indonesia and awarded a dagger with the
    inscriptions " Chinese Boxing King". In addition to teaching,
    he did much to compile the Fanziquan system, including
    writings and developments such as compiling the "Lian
    quan" (Lin kuen) into a series of "Xing quan" (Hung Kuen,
    moving fists) which were in 10 sequences (now has become
    12 and up to 14 in some branches).

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    As an important teacher of the Chin Woo Association it
    allowed the style to be well promoted and spread globally.
    Many new forms were created on the basis of other styles
    taught at the association and the style became a new system
    referred to as Ying Zhao Fan Zi Men or simply Ying Zhao Pai
    (Eagle's Claw). In Hong Kong his key disciple was Liu Fawen
    (Lau Fat Man, also his martial brother as the nephew of Liu
    Qiwen) who was responsible for the Chin Woo Activities in
    Hong Kong after Cheng Zicheng returned to Shanghai.

    History of Eagle Claw in USA

    Sifu Leung Shum open the first Eagle Claw school in


    America on 28th Street In New York City in March 1974. It
    was the beginning of the school's American history. Over the
    years, thousands of students have learned and practiced the
    Eagle Claw system. Some have studied for more than thirty
    years, others only a few months, but all of them have
    benefited from the teaching of our Sifu. Now, the next
    generation of students (his students' students and their
    children) is coming of age and carrying on the Eagle Claw
    legacy. More about history you may find at Shum's Eagle
    Claw international headquarters web site.

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