Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu: The Dynamic Art of Fighting Paperback – January 1, 1994

Glad to find this book. Thought it was out of print. If you know who Lee Koon Hung was, you will enjoy this detailed book on the CLF style of Gung fu.

Really interesting chapters. I enjoy the large amount of instructional pictures as well. Though it is hard to learn forms/moves from a book, they really try to lay it out as well as possible. Some of the techniques are a little silly and appear too "staged" to the point that I laughed a couple of times. Overall I really enjoy this book though and recommend it to anyone who would like to learn from the CLF master.

This book is an excellent resource on this style of Kung fu. Master Lee was the best I have ever seen at Choy Li Fut, super lucky he wrote a few books. Can’t wait to collect them all.

True the translation into English was spotty in areas, but, the book is a great primer on Choi Lay Fut and I am looking forward to training in that Kung-fu style again! I'm very happy with the book and the service!

Utiliza terminos en inglés y no en chino. Al compararlo con otros libros de choy lee fut, este material es escaso. Muestra varias interacciones, pero no siento que haya aprendido algo con que quedarme. Al menos como principiante no me ayudo, quizás debería tener los nombres de cada postura conocida y una fotografía asociada, porque estos despues se repiten en las formas y también en el sparring. Si, estan escasos de dinero, compren alguno de los libros siguientes, que me han aportado bastante:recomiendo "The essential book of Choy lee fut kung fu, de Sifu Rolando Martins es más completo" está en inglés . Y uno en mi opinión mas completo aun es "Choy lee fut Kung fu la herencia de los maestros de Sifu Gaspar Garcia", lastima que no pueda encontrar una versión impresa del mismo en amazon u otra librería, porque contiene Ng Lun Ma, Ng Lun Choy y sei Mun Kiu Jou San Ma. Este último es mi preferido, ojalá se volviera a imprimir, esta en idioma español.

Great book, very well written.

The late Master Lee Koon-Hung's "Choy Lay Fut" book stands out. I picked this up in 1992 in New York's Chinatown. The shelves brimmed with a medley of styles, from wushu to "drunken monkey." This book stood out for its clarity and pragmatism. Back then, I was a teenage karate practitioner. Later, I studied Jow Ga -- which combines Choy Li Fut with Hung Gar, with some Bak Mei and "Northern Shaolin" thrown in.Lee's book is didactically sound. He offers some strengthening exercises for the wrists and hands. He offers the basic strikes and kicks, with their nuances. The two partner sets show applications. The text is concise but sparse. You really need to look at the pictures to catch some of the subtleties in movement, the strikes off of blocks and the double-strikes from the same hand -- similar to a double-jab in boxing, or a hook from a parry.This is a hard-hitting style, with quick set-ups and hard strikes. It's circular and linear, focused on getting inside and doing damage. There's holding and hitting, elbows and knees, nasty palm and swinging strikes, even a cool leopard fist thrown like a corkscrew punch.I believe the parries, strikes and low kicks adapt well to any style. If you've boxed or taken another martial art, you can grab some techniques from this even if you dispense with some of the purist footwork. Lee expresses theory in application. Defending is integrated into offensive movement, simple parries, shoulder stops and leverage blocks combined with strikes, strikes even emanating from the block. The big swings require set ups, and occur following shorter and, typically, linear techniques. I don't know that I fully appreciated the full content until I was older and had studied a few different arts.As far as the kicks and strikes go, I'd recommend this book to any combatives practitioner. Dermot "Pat" O'Neill and others were influenced by similar kung fu styles, with references to "chu'an fa" and "Chinese foot fighting" throughout select manuals. The same low-kicks, stomp kicks, basic defensive skills, and striking appear in this book.I also recommend looking at Bucksam Young's "Hung Gar Kung Fu," and Sifu Ron Wheeler's book on Jow Ga, which carries a more ambiguous Shaolin kung fu title (it also includes a DVD).

The book is full of pictures, but you MUST have a previous Kung Fu experience to understand what they are trying to show. That makes the book useless, because if you have to know Kung Fu in advance you do not need this book.I was expecting to read much more about Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu history, its lineage thru Chan Heung until now and things like that.Another point that got my attention was the movements, kicks and punches with no reference to their Chinese original names.There is also no form sequences.To sum up, the book is useless to teach you Kung Fu.. even the techniques or the history which is very resumed.