Master Wong Kam Hoong (1917 - 1991)

Master Wong Kam Hoong was born in Guandong Province China and began studying at a young age under Master Luo Guang Yu.

At the age of nineteen, he won a national boxing title and after becoming a graduate disciple of Master Luo Guang Yu he taught in China, Hong Kong and Macao before finally settling in Penang Malaysia, becoming one of the principle instructors of the Chin Woo Association in Penang.

Master Wong Kam Hoong was also retained to teach unarmed combat to several police agencies in both Macao and Hong Kong and was well known among martial arts circles for his very tough and practical approach to the training of Kung Fu.

Master Wong Kam Hoong later set up his own Association, the Praying Mantis Physical Culture Institute, Sigung Wongs organization is still active today and is known as the Penang Tang Lang Martial Arts Society.

Over the course of the many decades that Master Wong Kam Hoong taught in Penang he had literally hundreds of students, but following the tradition of many sifu he accepted only a comparatively small number as disciples.

Master Wong Kam Hoong was sought after as an advisor and patron to many societies. Over the fifty years he taught, he held many distinguished positions such as Patron of the "Penang Chinese Martial Arts Association", instructor to the "Canton Foo Sun Society", advisor to "Guang Sai Wu Chow Jing Mo", member of "Hong Kong Wai Mang Martial Arts Society" and "Hong Kong Man Keung Athletic Association".

Among practitioners of Seven Star Mantis the Penang branch is very well known and at the annual celebration of Master Wong Kam Hoong school, guests from all over South East Asia and China attend to recognize and honour the contribution that Sigung Wong Kam Hoong made to the spread and development of this system of Chinese Martial Arts.

Source : British Tang Lang