New Book: Kong Han Ngo Cho

In the 1980s I read articles in Inside Kung-Fu on Five Ancestor Fist by Alex Co.To me this art was dynamic, its principles deep, and its…

Ngo Cho Kun in Socio-Cultural Perspective

“Without ‘letters,’ the effort to spread the martial arts across the nation is bound to fail.”   −Cai Yangwu, a slogan of the Jingwu (Pure Martial) Association.…

Ngo Cho’s Master Text Translated

Written in 1907, the book known as Chinese Gentle Art Complete was published by Yu Chiok Sam, alias Yu Hong Piao, in 1917. Yu was one…

4 Strategies of Five Ancestor Fist

  The following is an excerpt from the beginning chapter of Chinese Gentle Art Complete: The Bible of Ngo Cho Kun, written by Yu Chiok Sam…

Rare Insights into Fukien Five Ancestor Boxing

Available for the first time since 1917, the rare book on Fukien Five Ancestor Boxing… “I congratulate Sifu Alex Co for translating this rare and important book…