Five Family Style is a southern Chinese kung fu system.  A system created by five Southern Sil Lum (Shaolin) descendants.  They integrated their elite techniques to form a new system with better transition and strength.  Fut master provided the system with open hand techniques such as palming, slicing, and slapping.  Master Hung's close hand punching style was chosen because of  its directness of power usage.  Master Choy inserted his medium range stance to facilitate quicker transitions.  Master Lee's blocking technique accompany with chin-na enhancement became the system's defense.  Finally, Master Mok completed the system with his stealth kicking style.  To ensure longevity of this new system, forms and combat concept were created.  Since all five ancestors came from Sil Lum, therefore, physical body training method (internal and external), mental cultivation, kung fu etiquette, and philosophy are passed down  as taught in Sil Lum.

Composition of the Five Family Style external structure include fundamentals (horse stances), five animal techniques (ng ying), hand forms, weapon forms, prearranged fighting forms (hands and weapons), free style fighting, and body conditioning.  On the internal side, there is breathing exercises, meditation, and power (jing) generation.

Southern style kung fu is commonly known for its quick foot works and hand movements which derives from speed , balance, power and agility.  The development of quickness depends on the thoroughness of a basic training program.  In Five Family Style, it starts with learning the correct posture and mechanics of the stances, punches, blocks, and kicks.  The next step is to work on power and speed, practice with weights to increase strength and mobility, zigzag around obstacles to gain slalom speed.  Then comes balancing training, traditionally it was done on top of a pole formation named plum flower poles (five poles), but it is acceptable to substitute with bricks. For focusing, it is desirable to use a wooden dummy for blocking, stuffed bags for punching and kicking.  The final step is to be able to integrate any stances, punches, blocks and kicks into a single movement or a series of techniques randomly.  Of course, lessons of proper breathing is included in basic training.  Our simple concept of breathing is: inhale when hands are in, exhale when hands are out.  However, the advance level requires the dynamic of the breathing rhythm be synchronized with the flow of techniques in order to endure fatigue

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