Liang Zipeng

梁子鵬 Liang Zipeng
Born	1900
Died	1974
Style	Neijia - Internal Martial Arts Yi Chuan Liuhebafa Taiji Chuan
Teacher(s)	Wu Yi Hui

Liang Zipeng (Chinese: 梁子鵬; pinyin: Liáng Zĭpéng; Jyutping: loeng⁴ zi² paang⁴; 1900–1974) is a noted Liuhebafa Master from China who went to Hong Kong in the 1946. He was an instructor in Liuhebafa, T'ai chi, Baguazhang, Yiquan and Xingyi Quan and other arts.

Liang Zipeng studied Liuhebafa with a student of Wu Yi Hui named Li Dao Li for six years during the World War. While Wu Yi Hui returned to Shanghai in 1945 and restarted his classes, Liang Zipeng was recommended by Li Dao Li to teach. This was the account of Li's son. Reference: Peter Ziboce's web

Although a recognized student of [Wu Yihui], Liang Zipeng only studied the first half of the Liuhebafa public form called Building the Foundations (Zhu Ji), and created his own personal second half from knowledge of other styles, thus the difference in his Liuhebafa from the mainstream.}

Liang Zipeng was the teacher of Lee Hoi-cheun 李海泉 (father of Bruce Lee), to whom he was said to have instructed Liuhebafa. When Bruce Lee had been practicing Wing Chun for some time already, his father suggested that Bruce should meet his teacher Liang. Lee became very interested in what Liang was teaching and wanted to learn from him. However, when Liang demanded that Lee give up other martial arts and leave behind all what he learned so far, Lee declined. Though he could not learn from Liang, he was allowed to listen to Liang’s lectures on Liuhebafa, which was also known as "Water Boxing". Bruce Lee later gave a famous speech where he said:

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend!

This is why in Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do there is no trace of training methods of Liuhebafa, but theoretical concepts and inspirations are clear. Other students were Sun Di, John Chung Li, Fong Pak Shing and Moy Lin-shin, and Li Ying An aka Lee Ying Arng.

External links

• Video of Leung Ji Pang in memoriam on YouTube
• Video of Bruce Lee giving his famous water speech on YouTube