Choy Li Fut History Continued....
Early one morning Chan Heung was practicing his Kung Fu, leg sweeping heavy bamboo trees and kicking up stones into the air, then smashing them before they hit the ground. Suddenly, the monk appeared and asked him if that was the best that he could do. Chan Heung was shocked when Choy Fok pointed to a large rock weighing about eighty pounds, and told him to kick it twelve feet. Bracing himself, the student exerted all of his strength as his foot crashed against the rock, sending it barely twelve feet away. Instead of giving the expected compliment, Choy Fok placed his foot under the heavy rock and effortlessly propelled it through the air. Chan Heung was awestruck by this demonstration of superpower. Again he begged Choy Fok to accept him as a martial arts disciple. This time the monk agreed, and for eight years Choy Fok taught Chan Heung both the way of Buddhism, and the way of Kung Fu.
When he was twenty-nine, Chan Heung left the monk and went back to his village where he spent the next two years revising and refining all that he had learned from Choy Fok, and his past teachers. Chan Heung had now developed a new system of Kung Fu. In 1836, he formally established the Choy Li Fut system, naming it in honor of his two principal teachers, Choy Fok and Li Yau-San, and using the word "Fut", which means Buddha in Chinese, to pay homage to his uncle, Yuen Woo and to the Shaolin roots of the new system.
Today, though still relatively rare outside of Asia, Choy Li Fut is one of the most popular and widely practiced styles of Kung Fu in mainland China.
