Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit

Grandmaster Wong is the Fourth Generation Successor of the Venerable Jiang Nan and Sixth Generation Successor of the Venerable Chee Seen of the Southern Shaolin Monastery.

He has spent his life time studying Kung Fu and Chi Kung, has been teaching for more than 3 decades and has over 2000 students worldwide. He spends much of his time teaching intensive courses close to his home in Malaysia, he also travels and regularly teaches in Europe, South America and Canada.

Author of 10 books (found at the bottom of this page) to date on subjects ranging from Kung Fu and Chi Kung to Zen and Chinese Medicine, he also received the "Qigong Master of the Year" award at the Second World Congress on Qigong held in San Francisco in November, 1997. He also holds an honours degree in humanities, and is one of the very few masters who speaks excellent English.

Grandmaster Wong, born in 1944, started his life-long training of the Shaolin arts in1954 when he began learning Shaolin Kung Fu from the famous Shaolin master, Sifu Lai Chin Wah, who was popularly known as Uncle Righteousness. Grandmaster Wong became his best disciple.

To further his Kung Fu training, Sifu Wong later learnt from Sifu Ho Fatt Nam, the third generation successor directly descended from the southern Shaolin Monastery when it was burned by the Manchurian army in China.

Sifu Wong also learned Wuzu Kung Fu from Sifu Chee Kim Thong, and Wing Choon Kung Fu from Sifu Choe Hoong Choy, who were patriarchs of their respective Kung Fu styles.

Sifu Wong has taught Kung Fu and chi kung for more than twenty five years, to more than twenty organizations. Regretting that many masters were withholding "secrets" of Kung Fu and chi kung with the result that these arts might lose their essence, in 1982 he founded the Shaolin Wahnam School of Kung Fu and chi kung, naming the school after the two teachers who had influenced him most, Sifu Lai Chin Wah and Sifu Ho Fatt Nam, with the aim of transmitting genuine Shaolin Kung Fu, Shaolin Chi Kung and Shaolin philosophy.

Having won championships himself, Sifu Wong has trained champions in Kung Fu (demonstrations as well as all styles sparring) and lion dance competitions. But he has always insisted that while Shaolin Kung Fu is an exceedingly effective martial art, its greatness lies in enriching our daily life and in spiritual development.

Since 1987 Sifu Wong has spent more time teaching chi kung than Kung Fu, because he believes that while Kung Fu serves as a fascinating hobby, chi kung serves an urgent public need, particularly in overcoming degenerative and chronic illness. Sifu Wong is one of the few masters who have generously introduced the once secretive Shaolin Chi Kung to the public, and has helped literally hundreds of people to be relieved of their so-called "incurable" diseases like hypertension, asthma, rheumatism, arthritis, diabetics, migraine, gastritis, gall stones, kidney failure, depression, anxiety and even cancer.

Now he has devoted more time on writing and teaching overseas, having successfully taught in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. He stresses the Shaolin philosophy of sharing goodness with all humanity, and is now dedicated to spreading the wonders and benefits of the Shaolin arts to more people irrespective of race, culture and religion.

Lineage

Grandmaster Wong trained under 4 masters, and is successor to his 2 Shaolin masters:

He is 6th Generation Shaolin successor through his 1st Master's line, Sitaigung Lai Chin Wah.

He is 4th Generation Shaolin successor through his 3rd Master's line, Sitaigung Ho Fatt Nam.

He was also a senior student of his 2nd Master, the recently deceased Chinese National treasure and Patriarch of Wuzu Kung Fu (Five Ancestors Kung Fu) Sitaigung Chee Kim Thong.

He was treated as a 'Kung Fu brother' of his 4th Master the Patriarch of Wing Choon Kung Fu Sitaigung Choe Hoong Choy.