Dragon Style of the Hakka People - Kung Fu of Hong Kong ep6

Dragon Style, or Lung Ying Kuen, is often called the "cousin style" of Pak Mei. In this video, Linda Ung takes Damien and I to visit Cheung Kwok Tai, one of the top masters of the system, to find out more.
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[@PaMuShin]

Actually you have in a lot of wing chun movies a heavy rivalry going between dragon (Lung ying)/tiger kung fu (bai mei) as final boss for the wing chun guy (crane/snake), always made me wonder if there is some rivalry. Sadly this is not quite my topic, but i know that southern shaolin tended to mark themselves with tiger/dragon while the north shaolin of henan marked themselves with phoenix (which is said to be amalgamation of the strongest styles like mantis, ape etc.) and dragon. I always supposed this might be cause it is the most powerful combination of the temple. Maybe another thing you might want to investigate. Sure could be interesting if you accomplish to interview Wilson Yip or Sammo Hung, they seem to know a lot about kung fu history like an encyclopedia, maybe they know some good spots for you to find results too.

[@australiadragonstylekungfu]

Hi everyone, it's Linda from the video! Thanks to Will and Damien for making such a great video on Dragon Style lung ying! Master Cheung is extremely high level and a top disciple of Grandmaster Lam Yiu Gwai's eldest son. He's also a herbalist and dit da master practicing out of the DSAA headquarters. Glad to showcase authentic dragon style to a broader audience!

[@mc003b9866]

Hi Linda, Michael from Hong Kong here. Are you guys also the same lineage as Barry Pang’s Lung Ying ? I notice that Barry Pang also from Lam Yiu Gwai via Wu Hua Ta

[@australiadragonstylekungfu]

​@@mc003b9866Hi Michael, all lung ying eventually goes back to grandmaster LYG 😊 My Sifu is Chan Cheung a disciple of LYG. Master Cheung Kwok Tai is my sihing by generation.

[@KungFit]

Happy to do it! 😊

[@CastleHassall]

Hi Linda, it's really good you are giving full credit and full respect to people so they are rightly credited.. your form looks good, nice proper focused energy to your way of moving from the clip i saw.. it's nice to see someone doing dragon style that looks fierce, like a dragon would in fighting form..i think a lot of practitioners forget to do this in their way of being wishing happy days to you and to anyone you care about

[@timothyalston30]

I wish I could find a school in Atlanta that teaches Dragon

[@Saviohno]

Cool to see more of the historical connection between Pak Mei and Lung Ying! The techniques here are really similar to our form Ying Jow Lim Kiu (Eagle Claw Sticky Bridge), which Master Lai often said looked a lot like Lung Ying. Shout out to my fellow Dragon Style cousins

[@australiadragonstylekungfu]

Hey Savio! Yep, Ying Jow Lim Kiu is Lung Ying Mor Kiu 😅 We also have a Ying Jow form not to be confused with YJLK!

[@Saviohno]

@@australiadragonstylekungfu I see! I've got to visit you guys in Australia someday 😄

[@PaMuShin]

You can consider this hardly as Dragon, dragon is a lot about coiling movements and working with the forearms. This one seems to be spoiled by the Lam Gar connection, which made Hung Gar to a seed fist (expanding it with additional shaolin style sets). But this master is probably the best in explaining the float, sink, spit and swallow here on the channel

[@guytruth5598]

Thank you very much for promoting Hakka traditional cultural heritage.

[@daijoboukuma]

A fascinating glimpse into the strategy of a complex art. One takeaway [slapping my forehead "dou!"] is how energy is reshaped at the intensity it needs to be during every stage of movement. I previously viewed the energy used as a reservoir and then flowing at the same intensity through the technique.

[@Gieszkanne]

Southern Mantis, Tong Long or Chow Gar is different but in some way also simular and it also use the phoenix eye fist. I think its also a Hakka art. Maybe its also a bit linked to Pak Mei and Lung Ying? ( Wrote this while watching the video before it ended ; )

[@australiadragonstylekungfu]

Yep they share commonality as all 3 styles originate from Dongguan/Tung Kong (East River, in the Pearl River Delta), and the 3 grandmasters were all from Wai Yeung.

[@simonnaylor7983]

I did some Dragon Kung Fu mixed in with Bak Mei when I lived in Norfolk. It is a really formidable and underrated style with a lot of sharp and hard techniques. It definitely makes you sweat a lot! The techniques are very practical for self defense and the forms such as Sam Tung and Sup Luk Dung contaon really practical, brutal and effective techniques.

[@dazordragon9273]

who was your sifu in norfolk?

[@simonnaylor7983]

@dazordragon9273 it was Lee Campling. He is an instructor of Bak Mei Kung Fu and based in Norwich. We also did some Lung Ying as this was how I came to know about this style of Kung Fu.

[@weseaton6821]

Enjoying the ride, thank you Will for looking at the Hakka arts.

[@OngoGablogian666]

Love Hong Kong's aesthetics, that training room has such a vibe to it.

[@TheArrgh]

Thanks for this one, I've always been curious about Lung Ying.

[@silentshadow4110]

Thank you very much for this video. I'm fascinated by this style for a long time. The strikes in lung ying look like penetrating and powerful waves.

[@jm7578]

This is an extremely informative and excellent video about dragon style kung fu. It is not my main art yet. I do study it and I cherish it. Thank you for this video.

[@lawrencecron672]

We have an unusual lineage here in NZ that has a rare Burmese tiger style called Wah Gar (used by Wingate ww2 combatives) fused with Chow Gar called tiger mantis. We have also Lee Gar in Auckland founded by Philip Lam.

[@JKDVIPER]

A lot of WING CHUN comes from the HAKA PEOPLE. They were traveling nomads who taught martial arts. Futian. Much respect. 😊

[@peterkhew7414]

Just in time for the year of the dragon 2024.

[@bruno1653]

Great vídeo 🙏, Will You interview c.s Tang?

[@zetareticulan321]

Some of those hammer fists reminds me of Cimande.

[@redbaron1953]

There could have possibly been elements of hakka kuntao influence that have crept into some pentjak silat styles like the De thoures style and others .. especially hundreds of years back in nusantara where the chinese hakka and indo/ malay communities lived in close proximity...

[@wingproduction2392]

love this series

[@deadlypalms]

Another amazing, insightful video on the non-nonsense hakka arts. Great stuff! Good to see a familiar face there from the chow gar (nyc) family at the end there too, I look forward to the next video on southern mantis.

[@mamar5882]

It would be amazing to see some Lam Gar Gao!!!

[@JimmyPong]

8:30 - 8:45 strangely reminds me very much of the san-sau applications of Northern Praying Mantis. 😁 Anyway, what a beautiful style, I've always been fascinated by it (I knew a si-hing from my old Jow Ga days who also learned this when he was a kid, he taught me a little section from the "16-Movement" form...)

[@Braindazzled]

Really interesting and educational!

[@todemery2622]

Great video thanks

[@joaovermelho0084]

Could you make Choy Gar video and also Fut Gar style?

[@ruiseartalcorn]

Great stuff! Many thanks :)

[@adigspi]

A beautiful educational piece. Thank you for this work. To me, many of these same aspects are found in Wing Chun, but I notice he coils his spine a lot more. The forms habits leave the player a bit forward weighted. I wonder what weapon set is the primary weapon of the Hakka Dragon method?

[@JonYounghusband]

Amazing!

[@SomeOne-wl6wp]

8:24 I know there are a lot of culture and familypridewith marital arts in china but this tech. in particular in combination ith an elbow to the head literally did happen in MMA and is a very very effective surprise for the opponent (and less risky for hand and wrists).

[@redbaron1953]

I would love to see the hakka kuntao connection to indonesian pentjak silat ..

[@jma1987]

Another brilliant video and in depth interview, thank you Will! However, I am slightly disappointed with the English subtitle as Master Cheung mentioned a lot of details but wasn’t fully translated and covered in the video e.g. power generation of the stance starts from the toes gripping the floor to… 提肛 (the tightening of the arsehole!!) It’s a technique I have heard of and curious about… I understand the difficulty in translating kungfu talk, I have also tried to translate Cantonese into English myself. Hope your next video will have a more extensive English subtitle translation! Keep up the good work!

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Yea sorry for that. I am a fluent Mandarin speaker, but had trouble getting someone who could do the translation for Cantonese for us

[@frankmartinez4856]

Lam family, first learn the nine movements! Expanded to sixteen movement. That became the basic to Loong Ying Mor Kiu 😬

[@Ed7501]

I used to go to a Dit Da master in Sham Shui Po who is a Lung Ying master. Sifu Shum. We used to talk Kung Fu all the time. He is retired now but I wonder if y'all are related lineage wise.

[@johncasarino5627]

my friend wants to know the music being played in the background

[@crazyhorse3344]

Amazing this dragon style Master can talk a good fight

[@silkplayer9]

Do you have any information about Hainan Tiger Kung Fu Rident Footwork? ?

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Sorry no, but for future reference, you can use the search feature on the channel page to see what other styles I have made videos on

[@urielpolak9949]

I love my dragon. More everytime i see others i appreciate my sifu more

[@dazordragon9273]

Where do you train dude?

[@urielpolak9949]

@@dazordragon9273 heaven man earth

[@urielpolak9949]

@@dazordragon9273 but i was talking a looong time ago

[@dazordragon9273]

@@urielpolak9949fair play, what country are you training in?

[@urielpolak9949]

@@dazordragon9273 holland

[@aapiElder]

blocks, blocks, blocks, one-two-hook, you lose

[@gerhardmayer6289]

Huang zhung pai she wang wang wang sko

[@PaMuShin]

I was really looking forward to it, sad that again no real dragon was seen but a mixed style. By the way , why use scenes from the Fearless Movie of Huo Yuan Jia? You have in Ip Man 1 a lot of Dragon related styles that would have been better suited just have a look at the Jin Shang Zhao fights

[@KungFit]

Because of the reference to formal challenge matches, of which there are a bunch in Fearless, but not Ip man.

[@PaMuShin]

@@KungFit i think in IP Man 2 there were some platform fights, but not really dragon. These kind of matches with more serious conditions like fighting on pillars, high plattforms etc. always made me wonder if they were just bound to certain styles. Thanks maybe i should try to look it up, these kind of skill display ... hard to tell if people stil do these, maybe in some rural areas or secret societys

[@spiritualphysics]

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[@mikehunt9884]

0:55 wow what is this place.

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

The Tulou in Fujian province. They are circular compounds where Hakka people live

[@Djent7779]

It looks like tiger 🐅

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

This isn't authentic pak mei kung fu from the grandmaster Cheung Lai Chun lineage

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

No, this is Dragon Style... the title says it, and the interview focuses on it

[@alsimmonshellspawn6021]

@@MonkeyStealsPeach then why use the name pak mei?

[@dazordragon9273]

@@alsimmonshellspawn6021 they don’t. They say it’s a Cousin style