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A brief history of Chiang Shou

Dates/People/Styles:

1757

Chi'ang Tao Li founded by "Liang Siew Yun (1728 - 1797)".

1795

Wang Tsu Tse (late 1700's - 1866).

1854

Chong Ye Tai (1821 - 1902).

and Wen Ah Lo (1827 - 1907)

Introduced methods of Lien Shou (Internal style and Chin Na).

1902

Yew Ching Low (1869 - 1934).

1931

Chiang Wah Che (1900 - 1981)

Introduced methods of Tibetan 'Amaree' (Sung Thru Kyom)

also studied Ganga Daa at the Sera monastery in Tibet under

"Ming Fong Li" and "Minglar Tsarong".

1933

The name of the style changed to 'Chi'ang Shou Fa'

1957

David Che and Michael Lee.

1969

Phil Mead - Present Grandmaster

Ian McGregor - Henri Pomerenenko ?

1975 and after-words until present.

James Watson (Scotland's Chief Instructor)

Lien Mead

Michael Jenkins

Michael Douglas

The legend of 'Liang-Siew-Yun' (1728 - 1797) Chi'ang Shou Fa founder.

Reputed to be one of the greatest masters of the internal systems of Kung Fu. Liang Siew Yun had one hundred and nine (109) personal combats in his lifetime.

Seventy two (72) of these combats ended in the death of his opponents, none of the seventy two slain by Liang Siew Yun showed any visible indications of physical injury to their persons.  At that time Liang Siew Yun was nicknamed the 'Mystical man'.

In his lifetime he had five students, two of them he killed while training.  He told the families of the deceased that their sons would be rewarded in future re-incarnations, (he was renowned for his morbid sense of humor).

He had many peculiar training methods, his personal quirk was ripping the bark off trees with his finger tips, he would do this for hours on end.

One of his morbid fascinations was an exercise known as the death pit.  His consisted of plumb flowered poles some twelve feet high resting in a pit full of venomous snakes.  Three people met their deaths attempting to fight 'Yun' in the pit.  Liang Siew Yun was believed to have become an outlaw at one point in his life.  At this time he was very cruel to his enemies, devising many varied methods of torture for his amusement and the gain of undisclosed information.

He created many special weapons with which he practiced and became very proficient with.  His own personal favorite being one pair of weapons he called tiger knives.  These consisted of two short hand held batons, on each end of these was a metal star set flat into each end of the baton.