08/10/2024
A Hong Kong lesson (September 2024)
As always and more fit than ever, the great master Chiu Chi Ling Sigung led me to the infinite world of application and combat techniques of the Hung Gar, expressing myself the true style and skill that always distinguish it.
Chi Ling Chiu Sigung was born in Hong Kong in 1943. His father, the great Chiu Kao Sitaigung (1895-1995), was one of the greatest practitioners and masters of the Hung Gar style. Even his mother, Shau Ying, had a great experience in the same style. Chiu Chi Ling Sigung begins his studies as a Hung Gar at the tender age of 6 years, under the careful guidance of his father who teaches him secrets and traditional methods. Thus grows in a highly experienced martial environment and opens his school in 1970. In the same period, in Hong Kong, he ferments the boom of martial arts films and Chiu Chi Ling Sigung becomes part of this great world up to Interpret 80 films. He works with Jacky Chan, Jet Li, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung and many others.
In this same period his father Chiu Kao Sitaigung decides to leave the teaching of his school, opened in 1931, to the children who close Chiu Chi Wai Sibaakgung (called "The King of Kungfu") and close to Chiu Chi Ling Sigung; Given the difference of character between the two brothers, the first of them decides to stay in Hong Kong and therefore in his father's school, while he closes Chiu Chi Ling Sigung chooses to bring Hung Gar to other countries. It is thus invited to various places to different events during which he demonstrates his experience and greatness in style. It also has a lot of success in the United States where it still lives and teaches (since 1997). Grandmaster Chiu Chi Ling Sigung today is known all over the world and boasts numerous branches from his school in various countries of the globe, from Hong Kong to the entire China, from the United States to Europe, to Singapore. It continues like this, its various tours around the world.
For me it was an honor to know and practice with Sigung Chiu Chi Ling and I thank my teacher Sifu Giuseppe Cucci for the opportunity offered to me.
Grandmaster Sigung Chiu Chi Ling is a charismatic character, capable of transporting anyone to a fantastic world yet real, of emotions, sensations and physical and psychic expressiveness, things that make you feel at the center of the world despite being a drop in the sea and its tireless "Good!", Risse to my ears like a flame in the candle and rekindles emotions and indelible memories.
The softness of the movements and the power of the blows with the transmission of the Qi are visible elements in Grandmaster Chiu Chi Ling, elements that strengthen the concept that the hard and the soft, the Yin and the Yang are indivisible in the Hung Gar, which It does not only belong to the Wei-Jia school excluding the one in the Nei- jia, but it contains them both.
Sinuous movements and decisive blows, this I saw, essentiality and naturalness, power and shot, flexibility and speed: tiger, crane, snake, leopard, dragon, the five Soulem animals were all there!