Man Cheuk Chiu (赵文卓) is a stylish man of strong build who is famous at home and abroad for his high-level Kung Fu and hearty personality. Man Cheuk Chiu has a good command of sword, appear and Chinese boxing. He is very skilled with over 300 kinds of fist positions, such as shadow boxing. He won a national martial arts championship in the year 1991.He has pursued a career in acting since the year 1992, and has presented marvelous performance in Kung Fu films and television programs. Man Cheuk Chiu was nominated the best actor in Golden Rooster Awards for his Sino-Dutch War 1661, and his movie True Legend got the best Asian action movie award.
Tag: Chinese Kung Fu
Chinese Kung Fu Stars – Sammo Hung
Sammo Hung (洪金宝) is a humorous action movie actor, and he has had wonderful performances in many Kung fu comedies. Besides being actors, Sammo Hung has succeeded in working as the guidance of the martial arts and director. He has won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Award in Hong Kong Film Awards and in Asia Pacific Film Festival. Sammo Hung has cooperated with Jackie Chan in many films, giving excellent performances.
Chinese Kung Fu Stars – Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh (杨紫琼) is a international female action star famous at home and abroad. She has acted in many famous movies, acting as female knight-errant, showing her authentic Chinese Kung Fu. Her beauty, acting skills and skilled Kung Fu impress people a lot.
Chinese Kung Fu Stars – Bruce Leung
Bruce Leung (梁小龙) can be ranked as one of the most famous and influential Kung Fu stars in the eighties. Since the year 1973, he has acted in more than 70 action movies and a series of televisions.
Chinese Kung Fu Stars – Jason Wu
Jason Wu (吴京), hailed as Kung Fu boy, began to act in films and televisions from the year 1995. He started to learn and practice Kung Fu in sports school of Beijing when he was six years old, and he has won the champion of national martial arts competition. Jason Wu has acted in many televisions and some action movies, presenting skilled Kung Fu and impressing audiences a lot.
Chinese Kung Fu 中国功夫 – Chinese Kung Fu Stars
China boasts a number of Kung Fu stars who play an important part in many Chinese Kung Fu films and
Chinese Kung Fu 中国功夫 – The Mechanics of Wing Chun Empty Hand Forms
In the introduction, it was suggested that Wing Chun was a different, more technique-based system of Kung Fu compared to the more ordinary systems of Kung Fu that rely as much on brute strength as superior technique. Much was said there to describe what WCKF wasn’t. Also immediately above, we introduced the philosophical essence, the very heart, of WCKF. In this section, we describe the component parts, the mechanics, of WCKF. This is best accomplished by describing the component parts of WCKF with an eye to their underlying concepts (remember also that, in the introduction, we said that WCKF was "concept-based"?). Central to the art of WCKF is the notion of the Central Axis (Zhong Zhou [中軸]), or the center line, which is the area of the body, or body zone, in which punches, kicks and grappling (trapping) takes place, while punches, kicks and trapping, in turn, belong to forms (Empty Hand forms). Each of these concepts – these topics and subtopics – will be treated in the following…
Chinese Kung Fu 中国功夫 – The Guiding Theory of Wing Chun
In the above, many words have been spent to describe what Wing Chun isn’t and what it is. We said, in the introduction, that we would attempt to tighten the circle of meaning around Wing Chun so as to capture its essence. Hopefully, the above description has paved the way to a more specific definition of what constitutes the essence of Wing Chun. We could have begun with the narrow, essential definition of Wing Chun and from there we could have illustrated the specific concept via generalized examples.
Chinese Kung Fu 中国功夫 – Wing Chun Legends and Lineages
The origin of Wing Chun is explained by a legend that involves a fight between a snake and a crane. According to the legend, a female Kung Fu master, Ng Mui, who was associated with with the Shaolin Temple*(1), chanced upon a fight between a snake and a crane, where normally the snake would be considered the underdog, yet the snake, biding its time and taking measure of the crane and the crane’s method of striking – and taking care not to be struck by the crane, of course, since, were the crane to connect (literal sense!) with the snake, it would be curtain time for the snake! – itself struck at the propitious moment, killing the crane.
Chinese Kung Fu 中国功夫 – Wing Chun Wooden Dummy
"Before I trained on the Wooden Dummy, it was just a strange-looking, upright wooden (in every sense of the word) contraption with three funny-looking, "stick-man" half-arms and a single clumsy-looking leg whose sole purpose seemed to be to trip me up. After I had trained for some time on the Wooden Dummy, I began to appreciate that it was more than just a strange-looking, upright wooden contraption with funny, "stick-man" half-arms and a clumsy-looking leg that was always in my way; it was a strangely dynamic sparring partner, the more so given that it was built as a more or less static "dummy".