In   memory   of   Master   Weing


 

 



            The Tong Leong School of Martial Arts humbly honorsMaster Weing for all his accomplishments as a martial artist and great scholar. Master Wong-Leong established the tong leong style in the 17th century until the early 20th century. With Master Fun-Tong-Sun, this style prevailed in north China's shauntung province. Their Master Yang-Wei-Sing and Lo-Kuon-Yu moved south from Shantun province's town of Bon-lai into Shanghai where they began their instructing. Later Master Lo-Kuon-Yu returned to Shanghai where he died in 1944. One of Master Lo's students, Cheng-Peng-Weing, who died in 1970's, came to Long Island, New York in 1962, to become the instructor of Manuel Agrella, now the director of Tong-Leong Gwo Shuh Guan.

          Tong Leong style has been publicly recognized in chinese martial arts as a sort of "beauty in opposition." It's hypnotic combination of rapid, hard, and soft movements, balanced by long and short, all performed with cat like grace and precision, make tong-leong an extremely versatile form of self defense. In it's refined form Tong Leong seems very close to dance, in fact.

The   Tong Leong   Oath

To stress strongly the emphasis on self-control, each student is required to seriously swear to the Tong Leong Oath before receiving his degree:

          "I will always respect my fellow students without criticism. I shall, in no event, cause any harm, physically or verbally, to any person - even during the act of self defense unless the opponet appears to show full intention to cause me bodily harm, in which case I then shall use proper discretiond in protecting myself."

tong leong oath