Fearless: The Story of Chin Woo Kung Fu, examines the legends and the facts behind one of the world’s largest martial arts organisations. Born out of China’s uprising against foreign oppressors, and Sun Yat Sen’s founding of the Republic of China, Chin Woo helped to restore a nation’s pride.
As well as exploring the legend of the founder, Huo Yuanjia, known as “Fearless”, the author looks at how the Chin Woo (Jingwu) Association revolutionised martial arts at the turn of the twentieth century, bringing modern training methods to the masses, now taken for granted by today’s martial arts clubs and associations.
Find out how Chin Woo expanded throughout the world, spreading it’s philosophy and concepts.
Learn how Bruce Lee helped Chin Woo become one of the most well-known and popular kung fu schools in the 1970’s.
Discover the fundamental kung fu forms and weapons of the Chin Woo style.
See how the stories and characters from Chin Woo’s history have impacted on popular culture, from Bruce Lee’s “Fist of Fury” to Hollywood blockbuster “The Matrix”, and even “Star Wars”.
The author, Glen Stanway, a student and teacher of Chin Woo kung fu, also traces his personal martial arts lineage, from the original Shanghai school, to the famous Yap brothers in Malaysia, and his own kung fu teacher, Master Teng Wie Yoo.
The reader is taken on a fascinating journey from Qing dynasty China to the earliest days of the Chin Woo Association, present day and beyond.
