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Grand
Master Lam Cho's 92nd Birthday Celebration
 On Friday, 01 March
2002, the living legend
of Hung Gar, Grand Master Lam Cho celebrated his 92nd birthday. A big
birthday party/banquet in honour of Lam Cho sigung, was held at the Grand
Lord Sea Food Restaurant located in Prince Edward/Hong Kong. Hung Gar
practitioners, sifus and students from all over the world travelled to Hong Kong to attend the
birthday.
All together, around 200 guests turned up for the
birthday from countries such as; England, USA, Brazil, Greece, Italy,
Chezch Republic, Germany, Singapore, Netherlands, Japan etc. The birthday
party included traditional lion dance performance and breathtaking gung
fu demonstrations which of course was followed by an excellent banquet of
Chinese food and delicacies.
The entire main floor of the Grand Lord Sea Food
Restaurant was booked off for grandmaster's birthday party. After the
arrival of the guests, the festivities kicked of at around seven o'clock
with an excellent display of traditional lion dance by Lam Cho sigung's
grand students. The entire restaurant was surrounded by the sounds of the
drum, gong and cymbal as the guests watched the display of lion's
emotions and movements. Following the lion dance performance, Grand
Master Lam Cho cut the birthday cake with his sons, daughters and
grandchildren besides him.
The next two hours of the birthday was packed
with top-notch gung fu demonstrations. Sifus and students from around the
world displayed their Hung Gar skills, performing wide range of hand,
weapon and two men sets. Included in the demonstrations were awesome
performances by sigung's youngest son Lam Chun Sing and the eldest son
Lam Chun Fai. The demonstrations kicked off with excellent performances
by young children, the future generations of Hung Gar. One by one, they
displayed their hard earned skills by demonstrating variety of forms to
the sounds of the drum. Following the kids' performances, next up was
sifus, students and practitioners from different countries who in turn
stepped forward to display their Hung Gar. Some of the forms demonstrated
included sets such as; Fu Hok Seung Ying Kuen, Sup Ying Kuen, Kwan Do,
Pek Kwa Darn Do, Gim, Ng Lung Ba Gwa Kwun, Fu Hok Doy Cha, Darn Do Chin
Cheong, just to name a few.
Some of the main highlights of the evening
included breathtaking performances by grand master Lam Cho's sons, Lam
Chun Sing and Lam Chun Fai. The guests were thrilled by two separate
performances of Master Lam Chun Sing the youngest son of Lam Cho sigung.
Lam Chun Sing sifu displayed his lightening speed, power and superb
skills with the empty hand form `Pang Pau Kuen`. He than gave a
phenomenal performance of `Darn Do Chin Cheong` Spear vs Sword with
Mr.Chan a long time senior student of Lam Cho sigung. The spectators were
overwhelmed with the amazing accuracy, speed and skilfulness displayed by
Master Lam and Mr.Chan. The closing demonstration was given by Lam Chun
Fai sifu. He demonstrated his extraordinary skills by performing an empty
hand set in front of the eagerly waiting guests. This certainly was the
perfect final performance.
The hung gar demonstrations was followed by a
photo session where practitioners from around the world gathered around
grand master Lam Cho and his sons Lam Chun Fai sifu and Lam Chun Sing
sifu to take photos. Afterwards everyone settled down to enjoy the
delicious food and delicacies served by the Grand Lord Sea Food
restaurant. The birthday party concluded with grand master thanking every
guest personally for joining him at his 92nd birthday.
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