Yau Kung Mun (Flexible Hard Power Kung Fu)
柔功門A southern Chinese kung fu style; its public history starts with Ha Hon Hung's school in Guangdong in 1924.
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About Yau Kung Mun (Flexible Hard Power Kung Fu)
Yau Kung Mun, the school of soft power, is a southern Chinese kung fu style whose public history begins in 1924, when master Ha Hon Hung opened his first school in Guangdong; it operated at the Pearl River martial arts club in Guangzhou. According to the school's own account the style was named by the monk Tit Yan, who took Ha Hon Hung as his first lay disciple in the early twentieth century, and the line is said to run back to a Tang-dynasty monk at a southern Shaolin temple; that earlier part is traditional narrative rather than documented history, and this page therefore lists only Ha Hon Hung as founder. The technical signature is a low, solid horse stance with an arched back and the shoulders carried forward, out of which the style generates power for short strikes; elbow and forearm work, grips and takedowns belong with it. Hard external training is combined with internal, breath-based work, as is usual in southern Chinese styles. The curriculum consists of thirteen unarmed and twenty-eight weapon sets, farming implements among them. After the Second World War the centre of gravity moved to Hong Kong and from there, in the 1960s, to the United States and, in the 1970s, to Australia; today the school also has branches in Canada, South America and Finland.
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