Thursday 7 July 2011

Choy Lee Fut - the movie! Bruce Lee probably would have approved!

I am assuming the success of the biopic films about Bruce Lee's Wing Chun teacher - Ip Man films (Ip Man and Ip Man 2) starring Donnie Yen, has sparked an interest in films about legendary kung fu styles.

Choy Lee Fut (Cai Li Fo in mandarin) style kung fu is a combat system, which Bruce Lee respected:
"Choy Li Fut is the most effective system that I've seen for fighting more than one person. [It] is one of the most difficult styles to attack and defend against. Choy Li Fut is the only style [of kung fu] that traveled to Thailand to fight the Thai boxers and hadn't lost."
-from Bruce Lee - Between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do, by Jesse Glover.
According to Black Belt magazine, Bruce Lee studied Choy Lee Fut, before studying Wing Chun.. Here's a manual of a Choy Lee Fut book that is purported to belong to Bruce Lee.

Here's Sammo Hung's film trailer - Choy Lee Fut, released in 2011.



Wushupedia on Youtube - shows 15 minutes of footage from the film.


As a film itself, the reviews haven't been that spectacular (here's one from LoveHkFilm). But as a practitioner of Choy Lee
Fut, I'm dying to see it!

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