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About the
Mantis Survey Details  
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Dedication
1962 Mantis Society
Wong Fei Hong Movie
About eBooks 
About The Author
Contact Schools

VOLUME ONE
Pingshan Mantis Celebration

VOLUME TWO
China Mantis Reunion

VOLUME THREE
Kwongsai / Iron Ox

VOLUME FOUR
Chung Yel Chong /
On Som Dot's Trail

VOLUME FIVE
Chu Gar Praying Mantis
 
ADDENDUMS
Wong Yu Hua Interviews

Wong Yook Gong's
Training Creed

Kwongsai Dit Da Jow

CONCLUSION

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SIFU WONG YU HUA INTERVIEW

RDH:  Can you tell us what is your relationship with Henry Poo Yee from the United States?
WYH:  I am not concerned with politics.  There is no head of mantis only heirs.  I don't make any claims except to be my father's son.  I do not know Henry Yee.  You know that Yee accompanied you (RDH) and Bill Chan once to Pingshan, about 1992, for a couple of days to visit me.  I have only met this person that one time, thirteen years ago or more, for a day or two.

I heard in Hong Kong that Henry Yee has also stated that he is my good friend and in the past learned from my father, Wong Yook Gong and my father's Grand Teacher, Lee Siem Si.  None of this is true.  It is absolutely false. 

I was also told that Henry Yee came to Hong Kong and stated among the Kungfu community, that he once came to see my father accompanied by Lam Sang.  None of this is true.  I have contacted the media, magazines and newspapers in Hong Kong not long ago to alert them about his erroneous statements.  I wish to publish an article to state the true facts.  Henry Yee is not my friend, I don't know him, neither did he visit, ever see, especially, never learn from my father or my father's Teachers.  One should not distort the facts for personal gain.

RDH:  What do you think about Henry Yee's Mantis?
WYH:   From the very little I have seen and that he showed to me, it is definitely not the Kwongsai Mantis Heritage, I, my father, or my father's Teachers have received.  There is no one in China who trains any of Som Dot's branches the way Henry Yee does.

RDH:  Do you think Henry Yee is teaching Lam Sang's Mantis?
WYH:   You know that it is difficult to translate Hakka to Mandarin, much more so, English.  Lam Sang's students misinterpreted his Hakka dialect, perhaps.  "Som Bo Gin" means three steps; three scissors in China.  Thats all.  Lam Sang was a local.  You have heard many stories about him.  He studied Chu Gar Mantis and KwongSai Mantis. Lam Sang was a controversial figure.  But, Henry Yee's Mantis does not conform to any standard in China. 

RDH:  Is there a Lee Pai Mantis in China from Lee Ying Sing?
WYH:  No.  There is no such thing.  You know that.  You have travelled from Hong Kong and Macau in the South to Kwongsai and to Shanxi in the North.  There is no Lee Ying Sing Pai in China. 

Lee Ying Sing was not my father's student, although, Lee did have a brief relationship with Chung Yel Chong.  But that relationship ended very early on.

RDH:  Explain further please?