Kung Fu

"When you are talking about Kung Fu, you are talking about two branches:  the 'opera art' and the 'fighting art'.  Fighting can be used to improve your self-confidence.  If you only train in the 'opera art' or some non-contact form, to build your confidence, it might be a false confidence.  Once you try to use it, you will find that the 'opera forms' don't work."

Joe Chu is an enigma among traditional Kung Fu Sifu. 

• His art: Sil Lum Pai.  (Shaolin System)
• His method: full contact sparing.  
• His story: that of a rough-housing pugilist in south-east Asia's Kung Fu tournaments; and an irreverent shattering of some of the most cherished misconceptions about the art.