Welcome, and thank you for visiting us! We are the Chan Family Choy Lee Fut website in Venezuela.

We are pleased to be your host. Together, we´ll begin a thousand-year voyage to visit one of the most fascinating styles of Kung Fu, born in the country with the most ancient civilization still in existence today: China. This most ancient art emphasizes intelligent use of external force impelled by will, or internal force.

Shaolin Lohan Qigong, an ancient therapeutic exercise created 1,500 years ago by Ta Mo (Bodhidarma), the founder of Zen Buddhism, and guarded as a precious secret within the Shaolin temple, is a fundamental part of the Chan Family Choy Lee Fut style.

In China , traditional medicine goes hand in hand with the most advanced Kung Fu systems. Both share many concepts—for example, the nature of Qi and methods for harmonizing the five elements—and both emphasize breath control and internal exercises to bring out vigour and health. In fact, Kung Fu first entered China in its healing form. Although Chinese martial arts historians generally refer to Lohan Qigong (of the 18 hands of Lohan) as the “seeds” of Shaolin Kung Fu, very little is known about this internal exercise. These forms, which are the heart of Choy Lee Fut's internal system, had not left the immediate circle of Chan Heung's descendents until now.