choy fook

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Choy Fook was a Shaolin monk and refugee from the southern Shaolin temple in Fukien. Choy Fook was also known as Lantau Fook, or “broken head” Fook, due to the injuries he sustained while escaping the southern Shaolin temple in the onslaught of the Qing troops. Most attribute the Fut Jerng or “Buddha palm” technique to Choy Fook. The final of Chan Heung’s three teachers, Choy Fook instructed Chan for ten years. At the conclusion of his study, Chan was asked by Choy Fook to call his style Hung Sing paying homage and showing allegiance to the anti government secret societies that once took refuge at the southern Shaolin temple.