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Si-Fu Tom Haber
Si-Fu Tom teaches out of the Energizer fitness centre located in
downtown Edmonton and at Millenium Place in Sherwood Park, Alberta. The Energizer kwoon has been open since 2005 and
is a non-profit club.
Our primary style is Tibetan White Crane (Pak Hok Pai) which we
practice together with Hung Gar and few other Sil-Lum sets.
These additional styles complement our White Crane style and teach the student other aspects of
traditional Chinese martial arts.
Si-Fu Ed Laramie and Si-Gung Frank Lee
In 1980, Tom Haber started training White Crane Gung Fu at Frank
Lee's Martial Arts studio in Edmonton, Alberta Canada (lineage: Ng
Siu Chung >
Luk Chi Fu > Frank Lee).
After a few years Tom left Frank's to train under Si-Fu Edward Laramie. Ed Laramie was one of Frank Lee's first black sashes from the early 1970's and has trained with many other Karate and Kung Fu Masters such as Johnnie Hui and Mark Chan Wah. From Si-Fu Laramie Tom studied Hung Gar, Sil-Lum 5 Animals, Southern Dragon and Bak Mei (lineage: Master Chow Fook > Johnnie Hui).
Right: Master Ed Laramie with Si-Gung Frank Lee
Si-Gung Ho Dong Bin and Pak Hok Pai Group in Hong Kong
More
recently Si-Fu Tom has continued to expand his knowledge of the Pak
Hok Pai system through contact with Charles DaCosta, Kwong-Yu Chan
and Vincent Chan from the lineage: Ng Siu Chung > Kwong Bon Fu >
Ngai Yok Tong > Ho Dong Bin.
Left: Senior Pak Hok Pai Instructor Vincent Chan and Tom Haber at training session in Vancouver, B.C. April 2009.
Above Right: Tom training with Tommy and Charles in Hong Kong
Group at Korn Hill in Hong Kong. Si-Gung Ho Dong Bin and Group.
Grand Master Ng Siu Chung
Grandmaster Ng Siu Chung (Wu Zhao Zhong)
(left) of Sansui, Guangdong, also
known as Wei An studied White Crane Boxing and Chinese
medicine from Wong Lam Hoi (Huang Lin Kai), later he continued his
studies of White Crane boxing from Wong Lam Hoi 's boxing brother
Zhu Zi Yao. Ng became the successor and leader of the White Crane
Boxing Clan when he received the symbolic statue called "Jin Ru Lai
Fuo" (right) from Wong Lam Hoi. When grandmaster Ng was a young man in Macau
he was famous for his martial art prowess and in the 1940's he moved
to Hong Kong.
Grandmaster Ng taught many outstanding
students in his life. Among them where Kwong Bon Fu, Luk Chi Fu,
Chan Hak Fu, Ng Ying Kam, Au Wing Ning, Wu Ying Jian, Tang Chek
Ming, Li Jian Qin and others, who would later open their own boxing
school and became famous in their own rights.
Kwong Bon Fu ( 邝本夫) , was one of the most senior disciple of Grandmaster Ng Siu Chung and has passed away on May 15, 2006. He lived to a respectable age of 100. Kwong Bon Fu taught many Si-Fu's across the world including Vincent Chow pictured on the right.
Lu Zhi Fu ( Luk
Chi Fu) 陆智夫 (left) was also a famous disciple of Grand Master Ng Siu Chung.
Luk Chi Fu opened his martial art school during his teen years in
Guangzhou, later transferred to Hong Kong, he passed away a few
years ago in Hong Kong. Fan Keng was a disciple of Luk Chi Fu and
Fan Keng trained Frank Lee in Hong Kong. Frank Lee opened a school
in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and taught many students.
Right: Kwong Bon Fu (centre), on his left, Frank
Lee and
on the right, Vincent Chow of Vancouver, Canada.