Yuen Keong Ng

Dr. Yuen K. Ng is a scholar who started his martial arts study in July 1978. From his teacher he learned the traditional chinese massage, which he nowadays combines with techniques imported from the Thai traditional massage (nuad phaen boran) which he learned over the last decade of the second millenium.


Besides Luk Hop he trained some karate and judo (1980-1981) at the university of Leiden under supervision of W. Luiten, baimeiquan (1984-1988) under K.M. Ho, (a.k.a. Kwong Kai Ming) and modern wushu (1989-1993) under Y.-L. Fei. In addition, he was general secretary of the Netherlands Wushu Federation from 1991-1994.

After spending several years abroad as a post-doctoral researcher he nowadays focuses on the exploration of Luk Hop and aspects of various martial arts styles. His personal view on the so-called internal styles is:

the existence of the trinity of internal styles is basically due to natural selection from a multitude of styles; it comes forth from the fact that the majority of the movements of xingyi, bagua and taiji take place in one of the three orthogonal planes; actually one can think of it as a set of orthogonal eigenplanes; in this view the trinity must have been around all together, otherwise one particular style might have dominated the complete scene; this thought might not be as strange as is, because claims have been that flavours of the trinity originated from or around the Wudang mountain; at least they benefitted from the mutual interaction in that area to optimize their directives;

all the differences that one can distinguish nowadays among one particular type of internal style can therefore be considered as variations around the fittest point!

Other opinions forthcoming from over 20 years martial arts analysis are:

If one cannot master one aspect of the art then learning a multitude of routines is void.

Understanding one or more key aspects of a style is a lifetime experience.

Besides teaching martial arts to the CNCWS students in Amsterdam he also passes on his teachings to some foreign students in Thailand.

References

Liang S.-Y., Yang J.-M., 1990, Hsing Yi Chuan - theory and application -, (YMAA Publication Center), ISBN 0-940871-08-4

Liang S.-Y., Yang J.-M., Wu W.-C., 1994, Emei Baguazhang, (YMAA Publication Center), ISBN 0-940871-30-0

Miller D., Cartmell T., 1994, Xing Yi Nei Gong, ISBN 1-88175-04-6

Ng Y.K., 1994, Ph.D. thesis, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Sun L.T., 1915, Xing Yi Quan Xue (translation by Albert Liu, 1993, ISBN 1-883175-03-8)