Chow Gar Tong Long Gold Coast

15/10/2025

14/10/2025

13/10/2025

Congratulations Si Hing Mathew Tang!

13/10/2025

Congratulations to Mathew Tang for passing and achieving his 10th level of the Chow Gar system and becoming a Si Hing of our school.. After training for a Decade with me, tonight he completed a gruesome 4 hour grading session and I am very proud of his efforts and his ability to preserver through such a difficult process, watch below for details..
Please congratulate our newest Si Hing Matt Tang!

13/10/2025

Unity is strength, power comes from recognising the past and respecting the masters that came before us. They spent many decades training and teaching Chow Gar and perfecting its methods and understandings so that we may all benefit from their insight. This system is a wonderful journey towards great health, longevity of body, spiritual strength, mental fortitude and physical prowess..

Many 1000’s of people around the world love this system of Kung fu and cherish its teachings as passed down through the generations.

Much gratitude to Si Gung Ip Chee Kung and Si Ba Gung Ng Si Kay for their continued teachings…

Unity is strength and all Chow Gar people are part of this world family..

12/10/2025

08/09/2025

2025 - Such a joy to teach and train with these Kung fu men on a weekly basis. These guys love Chow Gar Mantis Kung Fu, they love the art, the principles and the training. I am very lucky and happy to train with likeminded, tough, dedicated people. I know these guys are always excited to train, learn and improve, there is so much to discover and achieve in this system and with the right guidance and work ethic, most can achieve it. I have spent my life defending this system, demonstrating its effectiveness and passing on the teachings to good people willing to learn. Onwards and upwards men!
Sifu Steven Parrella - 40 years
Sifu Jeremy Small - 30 years
Si Hing Damon Milne - 14 years
Si Hing Patrick Riki - Over 10 years
Brian Proctor - Over 20 years
Matt Tang - Over 10 years

01/09/2025

"40 YEARS OF SOUTHERN MANTIS"
After this many years of training there are many important teachers to show gratitude to and appreciation for their teachings.

1. John Saunders 1985
2. Marios Pen*si 1986
3. Mitchell Campion 1986 (RIP)
4. Phillip James 1987 (RIP)
5. Tony Russo 1988
6. Gawain Sue 1988 to 1995
7. Malcom Sue
8. Si Fu Paul Brennan 1996 to 2024
9. Si Tai Gung Ip Shui (RIP)
10. Si Gung Ip Chee Kung
11. Si Ba Gung Ng Si Kay

There were many other people that have helped with advice and experience, many hundreds of training partners, and even the thousands of students I have taught have helped me to grow as a Kung Fu man. They all have my gratitude and thx.

28/08/2025

We also made this video to help people understand the meaning behind Fut Sow the 6th Form in the system. Fut Sow in Cantonese can translate to "Buddha Hand" but it also translates to the Horse Hair whip action "Whisk hand". The horse haired whip was used traditionally to keep the flies away, and later used as a weapon in some systems of Kung Fu. The Whip is called "Chuen Fut" and can be found in various supply shops in Hong Kong. Sometimes people would hide sharp blades in the hair of the Chuen Fut Whip, and it would be a very inconspicuous dangerous weapon. The Fut Sow form is the 6th form of the system and later into the advanced levels there is also a second Fut sow form which is an advancement on the original form.

28/08/2025

November 2024, we journeyed again to Hong Kong for another training fortnight with Grandmaster Ng Si Kay. We worked hard each day training in the headquarters as well as training at various parks in Hong Kong. In the videos below I ask The grandmaster to answer some questions from Australian students. My personal goal and aim in this kung fu system is to give this system to everyone wanting it. I know there are many hard working, dedicated martial men and women in Australia that love this system of Kung fu. Many people that have trained for many years and enjoy learning and improving. This is my wish, which is to help anyone who loves this system in anyway I can. I have been very fortunate over these 40 years of training and teaching Chow Gar, and my heart loves to pass this stuff on to good hearted, dedicated people who have a huge passion for Southern Praying Mantis Kung fu. This video only explains and corrects certain terms commonly used in Australia, but the real intent is to help and give back what this system has given me. This is just the beginning …

25/08/2025

So 2023 was full of training, learning and developing myself, the students and the system. We went to Hong Kong twice in 2023, April and November visiting the headquarters and working on advanced stuff. Was very lovely learning from Si Ba Gung Ng Si Kay, he really puts in the effort to show, explain and correct your Kung fu.

25/08/2025

In December 2022, I decided it was time..

After over a Decade of running a public Chow Gar School at Southport on the Gold Coast with many great memories and wonderful times, I sold the property and decided to become soley a closed door, private teacher.

It was time to concentrate, intensify and develop. I continued to teach only a select group of 15 students and develop them into the higher levels of this system. To concentrate on their quality, individualise the training and intensify the more finer aspects of this style.

I also wanted to concentrate more on my training with my senior students, as I was still developing the higher powers, forms and training regimes of the advanced parts of the system.

We were now back to travelling to Hong Kong more regularly and training under Si Ba Gung Ng Si Kay and his students, as well as travelling to Brisbane weekly and training with the seniors there and doing privates classes as well.

All training and learning had been stepped up to another level and I needed good strong, well trained students to work with each week.

It was an end of an era but a transformation into a new style of training, as all students in the private classes were 6th level and above and had been with me for many years..

We were no longer taking beginners into the school and spending the time training
More advanced parts of the system.