West London Kungfu

Hung kuen is a traditional Chinese Kung Fu system. The full title of the art is Nam Siu Lam Hung Gar Kuen or Southern Shaolin Hung family fist. The roots of the art lie in the monastic traditions of Southern China. The club belongs to the Ti Ku Sam lineage. Ti Ku Sam was renown not only for his fighting ability but also for his practice of the yogic aspects of Kung Fu. He is credited with creating the internal "Iron Thread" form of Hung Kuen. This understanding of dynamic yoga underpins everything we practice at the club.

Everything that you learn in Hung Kuen has an application for self-defence. There is much more to Hung Kuen than just self-defence; there is yoga, aerobic fitness, health, traditional medicine, competition, art and more. But the thing that makes Hung kuen different from plain yoga or aerobics is that you learn to defend yourself. My name is Tom Bayley, I am the instructor at the west London club. I am forty years old and a qualified teacher working in adult education.