{"id":508,"date":"2019-04-11T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iliqchuan.nl\/?page_id=508"},"modified":"2021-02-21T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:42:53","slug":"chin-lik-keong-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iliqchuan.nl\/?page_id=508&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Chin Lik Keong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"Founder of I Liq Chuan<\/strong><\/p>\n

English Name: Chin Lik Keong
Chinese Name: \u66fe\u529b\u5f37<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Liq Chuan was founded by Chin Lik Keong. He studied martial arts \nfrom several masters including Sifu Lee Sum training Lee Style, Sifu Len\n training Phoenix Eye (the striking of meridian points), and his last \nSifu was Lee Kam Chow training Feng Yang Lu Yi, Hsing-I Bagua, or Liew \nMun Pai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chin Lik Keong was a gifted martial artist, and was known for his \nunique skill. In 1968, another student of Lee Kam Chow, Kong Siew San, \nasked Chin Lik Keong to start teaching at his house. Kong Siew San \ninvited a few more people, and the first group was formed. By the early \n1970s, Chin Lik Keong\u2019s ability to blend and distill martial techniques \nfrom different styles into fundamental principles earned him the respect\n of his peers and recognition as their Sifu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When demonstrating skill, he would show how to handle the opponent\u2019s \nenergy or force rather than train a technique. Master Chin Lik Keong\u2019s \nteaching became known as the \u201cMasters\u2019 Art\u201d because of his ability to \nguide expert martial artists to higher levels of skill through his \ntouch. Through the years of training and contemplation, Master Chin Lik \nKeong realized and dissolved his skill into the fundamentals of movement\n according to the nature of the human body. He had developed and evolved\n beyond style. Realizing an essence that was simultaneously all styles, \nwhile being no style; thus, something new. A new approach of refined \nmovement based on sensitivity, attention, and the fundamentals of \nnatural, balanced coordination. He never meant to become the founder of a\n new system, but through his insight into the power of attention and \nknowing, and by making these fundamental principles the central idea of \nhis teaching, his process inevitably developed into a new method, with \nits own unique set of principles, strategies, and tactics. \u201cDon\u2019t look \nat the move.\u201d He would say, \u201cLook for the principle behind the move.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 1973, what started in 1968 as a training group evolved into a \nsmall martial art school run out of Kong Siew San\u2019s house and taught by,\n now Sifu, Chin Lik Keong. Around that time Kong Siew San brought Wong \nChoon Ching into the class, who quickly became a dedicated student and \nsupporter of Sifu Chin Lik Keong. Wong Choon Ching was a headmaster of a\n local high school in Kuala Lumpur. He helped arrange to move the \nclasses from Kong Siew San\u2019s home to his school\u2019s gym. Wong Choon Ching \nunderstood the importance of formalizing the name of Chin Lik Keong\u2019s \nteaching in order to clearly differentiate it from other styles that \ninitially influenced Chin Lik Keong. Chin Lik Keong\u2019s path to mastery \nwas original, innovative, and his own. His students understood and \nappreciated this, thus, they supported their Sifu in transitioning to a \nformalization. In order to capture the essence of Grandmaster Chin\u2019s \nteaching, Wong Choon Ching proposed the name I Liq Chuan to represent \nSifu Chin Lik Keong\u2019s central idea that related Consciousness (I) and \nPower (Liq). In the following years, various newspaper articles were \npublished about Chin Lik Keong and I Liq Chuan, and several of his \nstudents competed in martial arts tournaments representing I Liq Chuan \nto further establish the new art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1976, the I Liq Chuan Association of Malaysia was formed in order \nto further formalize the school and to accommodate the strict public \nassembly laws of the time. Later, Master Chin Lik Keong began to teach \npublicly, and continued to hold a morning class in the park throughout \nhis life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1991, his eldest son, Sam F.S. Chin, moved to the United States \nand began to teach I Liq Chuan at the Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, \nNew York. Grandmaster Chin Lik Keong visited the Monastery several \ntimes. During this time he collaborated with his son on developing The \n21 Form, The Butterfly Form, and the foundation exercises. After Sam \nF.S. Chin developed and formalized the I Liq Chuan curriculum, the art \nbegan to grow in popularity in the US and also reached several European \nand Eastern European countries. It was now Chin Lik Keong\u2019s son, who\u2019s \nlegendary skill was attracting students from every corner of the Earth. \nAllowing students all over the world to appreciate and pay respect to \nthe founder Grandmaster Chin Lik Keong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2009, Grandmaster Chin Lik Keong decided to pass down the lineage gatekeeping responsibility to his eldest son, but he did not stop teaching. His simple unassuming manner made people feel welcome at his home, and regular weekly classes were conducted in his living room as well as daily morning classes in the park. Grandmaster Chin Lik Keong\u2019s near mystical skill continued to inspire martial artists of all levels and styles to his very last day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grandmaster Chin Lik Keong peacefully passed away at the age of 84, on the exact day of his birth, July 7, 2014. Every summer, I Liq Chuan students from all over the world came to Malaysia to visit their Grandmaster and train at his home. In 2014, they came to pay respects and say goodbye to the founder of their art. In his lifetime, he saw his art grow from a small group of four people to a flourishing international network of students dedicated to achieving the highest skill and passing down his art to future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Founder of I Liq Chuan English Name: Chin Lik KeongChinese Name: \u66fe\u529b\u5f37 I Liq Chuan was founded by Chin Lik Keong. He studied martial arts from several masters including Sifu Lee Sum training Lee Style, Sifu Len training Phoenix Eye (the striking of meridian points), and his last Sifu was Lee Kam Chow training Feng … <\/p>\n

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