China Southern Praying Mantis Kungfu Survey: Volumes 2, 3, 4

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A rare three volume book of China's Hakka Kwongsai Jook Lum Temple and Iron Ox Praying Mantis boxing. China Southern Praying Mantis Kungfu Survey VOLUME TWO: CHINA MANTIS REUNION includes: Three Orders of Som Dot's Shaolin Mantis revisited, Hakka Mantis blossoms in Huizhou, Elder Lok Wei Ping a Chu Gar and Kwongsai Sifu, Chung Yel Chong teaches one form, Kwongsai and Chu Gar clash in the 40s, Sifu Wong Gok Hong takes the lion head away, Lau Say Kay Sifu plays non-standard Kwongsai Mantis, Sifu Lai Wei Keung first Instructor in 1948, One Kwongsai form originally taught, Two methods of beggar hands, Sifu Cho Gum, Sifu Wong Yu Hua, Fairy hands cause a slap on the rear, Lok Sifu plays 34 Plum Blossom Staff, All Mantis is one family, Lai Sifu plays 34 Plum Blossom staff. VOLUME THREE - KWONGSAI MANTIS / IRON OX INTERVIEWS includes: Records of the elders and knowledge lost, Sifu Yao Kam Fat, Wong Yuk Kong opens Kwongsai Mantis in Hong Kong, Wong Yuk Kong visits Lao Sui's Chu Gar school, Wong Yuk Kong defeats 10 assailants, Yao Sifu plays three steps-three scissors old form, Similarities in Hakka Mantis, Yao Sifu plays 34 Plum Blossom staff, Spirit Shrine of Wong Yuk Kong, Elder Sifu Chung Wu Xing first disciple of Chung Yel Chong, Iron Uncle Chung friend of Lam Sang, Iron Uncle Chung smokes opium with Lam Sang and Master Chung in the 1930s, Sifu Yang Gun Ming student of Chung Yel Chong, Dit Da Doctors by lineage, Hakka Mantis prohibited in the Cultural Revolution, Sifu Xu Men Fei Iron Ox Hakka Mantis, Iron Ox taught only 2 months a year, Xu Sifu plays Iron Ox Second Door form-Red Flag Staff-and Third Door form, Iron Ox challenges Wong Yuk Kong's Kwongsai Mantis, Iron Ox Secret Drill Hand not taught. VOLUME FOUR - ON MONK SOM DOT'S TRAIL / CHUNG YEL CHONG FAMILY INTERVIEWS includes: Sifu Chung Wei Fei grandson of Master Chung, Master Chung Yel Chong as a boy accepted by Monk Lee, Chung Go Wah son of third ancestor Master Chung, Master Chung's boxing and Dit Da Medicine books, Third Ancestor Chung teaches Kwongsai Mantis in Hong Kong 1920s, Master Chung kills a man in self-defense, Master Chung's three generations under one roof, Sifu Lee Kok Leung outlines his Kwongsai Mantis teaching, Sifu Patrick Lee plays Mantis in Pingshan Town, Lee Sifu's History of Kwongsai Mantis, On Som Dot's Trail - Shanxi Jook Lum Temple, Oldest of the Temple Halls, Chung and Monk Lee return South six months on horseback, Kwongsai Dragon Tiger Mountain of Shaolin boxing and spiritualism, The bottom line about Kwongsai Jook Lum Temple, Lam Sang's Kwongsai spiritualism and amulet, Monk Lee Siem looks like a ghost, Jook Lum Temple in Hong Kong, Jook Lum Temple in Macau, Map of Jook Lum Temples in China with Hakka Mantis boxing, Abridged China Hakka Mantis history, Guang Wu Tang Martial Hall of Wong Yuk Kong in 2012, Mission statement of Guang Wu Tang Kwongsai Mantis, Sifu Wong Yu Hua in 2012, Miscellanies, Resources, Train in China. Kwongsai Mantis and Iron Ox Boxing and staff forms in sequence, Hardcover, full color, 330+ photographs. Review: real deal - very authentic material Review: South Mantis Survey - Author Roger D. Hagood has written another instant masterpiece on South Mantis Kung Fu. This book is an instant collectors item as many of the masters of South Mantis featured in this volume are sadly no longer on this mortal plane. Shifu Wong Yu Hua gathered a collection of the elder masters of South Mantis from many different schools/pai. Mr. Hagood was there listening and learning and documenting all that they had to say about the concepts, as well as the standard of South Mantis. The photos alone of the elders performing and commenting are worth the price of the book ten times over. Sadly many of these teachers are no longer with us. Much has been lost but Mr. Hagood is still documenting and preserving the knowledge so that future generations can see from hence the river flows. You will read about Chu/Chow Gar as well as Iron Ox and Kwongsai Mantis as taught by Lao Sui, Wong Yuk Gong and other teachers as well as insights into Lum Sang and his first generational teachings as compared to his last generation. Many concepts are shared and commented on by the elders of South Mantis, many of whom trained with Lao Sui and Wong Yuk Gong. I for one, am extremely happy that Mr. Hagood has published another information packed tome helping to preserve the standard of South Mantis as without the standard, Mantis will wither and become something else. Do not hesitate and add this book to your South Mantis collection. Books on South Mantis are like legs on snakes, very rare.