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The Hong Kong Kung Fu Legacy of Grandmaster Ip Tai Tak of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan

By David Schneider and Hing Kai Chan

There are many people who make many claims to the Yang Family lineage and their knowledge these days for various reasons. Some are promoting their schools and careers and use lineage to better their image and others have genuine roots to the Yang Family and have every right to list them. We will not get into defining these camps of Traditional Yang Tai Chi Chuan artists. The Yang Family can do that if they so choose. Presented here are some senior students of Grandmaster Ip Tai Tak who died in Hong Kong in April of 2004. The depth of his legacy as a martial artist is only being discovered now because as with many great artists he was more interested in perfecting his craft than promoting his own career. This article intends to provide the reader with some information about his inner circle of students in Hong Kong who continue in his footsteps and who knew him in Hong Kong as their Sifu and show a few examples of applications from the well known form of Traditional Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan known in the west as, “The Long Form”. It is referred to in Hong Kong as Tai Chi because another form is referred to The Long Form in Hong Kong. . Anyone who had been fortunate enough to be a guest of Grandmaster Ip Tai Tak in his living room in Pokfulam would attest to the incredible speed and ability of this legendary kung-fu fighter. As senior Disciple of Yang Sau Chung, Master Ip was the holder of his Master’s legacy for Kung fu and Push-Hands.

There exists a small group of students who visited Master Ip on a regular basis following the Death of his Sifu Grandmaster Yeung Sau Cheung the eldest son of Yang Cheng-fu of T’ai Chi Ch’uan legend. The group was made up of some old students of Yeung Sau Cheung of which some had spent about ten years of training with Grandmaster Yang and then continued training with his Chief Disciple Ip Tai Tak following Grandmaster Yeung’s death and a younger group of students who came to Master Ip through various introductions over the years. Among the younger students three individuals stand out and were given complete training in T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Chi Kung, Sword, Broadsword, Spear, Push Hands and application and also the lost kung-fu form of the Yang Family, which they referred to as “The Long Form”. These Three men are: Hing Kai Chan, Shui Hung Lam and Lao Their knowledge and legacy is available to the general public whether you are a Hong Kong local Chinese or a foreign visitor intent on sharpening your skills.

People can find Hing Kai Chan easily without any mystery or fanfare in Hong Kong.

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