Lau Sam Ngan
Legendary figureBy tradition, the founder of the southern Chinese Lau Gar style, nicknamed Three-Eyed Lau after a scar on his forehead resembling a third eye.
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By Lau Gar school tradition, Lau Sam Ngan founded this style. He was nicknamed Three-Eyed Lau after a forehead scar resembling a third eye. Lau Gar Kuen is usually counted among the five original ancestors of southern Chinese martial styles. We have not been able to verify his birth and death dates or the style's founding year.
Sources disagree on what he was and where he trained. Lau Gar Kung Fu London holds he was a Shaolin monk and tiger hunter from southern China. Lau Gar Ireland holds he learned boxing from a monk at the Kuei Ling temple in Guangxi, western China. Both versions come from school tradition, and we found no independent evidence of his life.