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When demonstrating skill, he would show how to handle the opponent’s energy or force rather than train a technique. Master Chin Lik Keong’s teaching became known as the “Masters’ Art” because of his ability to guide expert martial artists to higher levels of skill through his touch.
Through the years of training and contemplation, Master Chin Lik Keong realized and dissolved his skill into the fundamentals of movement according to the nature of the human body. He had developed and evolved beyond style.
Realizing an essence that was simultaneously all styles, while being no style; thus, something new. A new approach of refined movement based on sensitivity, attention, and the fundamentals of natural, balanced coordination.
“Don’t look at the move. Look for the idea behind the move.”
~ Grandmaster Chin Lik Keong
He never meant to become the founder of a new system, but through his insight into the power of attention and knowing, and by making these fundamental principles the central idea of his teaching, his process inevitably developed into a new method, with its own unique set of principles, strategies, and tactics. “Don’t look at the move.” He would say, “Look for the principle behind the move.”
By 1973, what started in 1968 as a training group evolved into a small martial art school run out of Kong Siew San’s house and taught by, now Sifu, Chin Lik Keong. Around that time Kong Siew San brought Wong Choon Ching into the class, who quickly became a dedicated student and supporter of Sifu Chin Lik Keong. Wong Choon Ching was a headmaster of a local high school in Kuala Lumpur. He helped arrange to move the classes from Kong Siew San’s home to his school’s gym.
Wong Choon Ching understood the importance of formalizing the name of Chin Lik Keong’s teaching in order to clearly differentiate it from other styles that initially influenced Chin Lik Keong. Chin Lik Keong’s path to mastery was original, innovative, and his own. His students understood and appreciated this, thus, they supported their Sifu in transitioning to a formalization.
In order to capture the essence of Grandmaster Chin’s teaching, Wong Choon Ching proposed the name I Liq Chuan to represent Sifu Chin Lik Keong’s central idea that related Consciousness (I) and Power (Liq).
In the following years, various newspaper articles were published about Chin Lik Keong and I Liq Chuan, and several of his students competed in martial arts tournaments representing I Liq Chuan to further establish the new art.
In 1976, the I Liq Chuan Association of Malaysia was formed in order to further formalize the school and to accommodate the strict public assembly laws of the time.