Contents

Author's preface
Ching Mo (Jing Wu) Athletic Assn.
Hung Gar (Tiger crane) history
Blocking sutra of tiger crane
Picture of Kwan Yu
Part 1
Chapter 1
1 Siu Lam Temple and the history of the five southern families
2 Hua T'o
3 Bodhidharma
4 Chueh Yuan, Pai Yu Feng, Li Chieng consolidate the five animals
5 Hung gar's beginnings
Fang Shi-yu and Hu Hei Chien
Destruction of the temple
Founder of hung gar
Five pattern hung kuen
Chapter 2
6 Five animals of kung fu
Dragon-Understanding the dragon form
Tiger
Leopard
Snake-Understanding the snake form
Crane
Chapter 3
7 Hung gar's five formed fist set
Chapter 4
8 Siu Lam's five animal fist set
Part 2
Chapter 5
9 Hung gar and southern Siu Lam's 36 fist styles
10 Hung gar (tiger-crane) martial club's curriculum
11 Essence of Siu Lam's 18 fist styles
12 Five shaped fists of Siu Lam
13 Five elements and Chinese cosmology
14 Five element fist strategies of hung gar
Afterword
Suggested reading (bibliography)