太祖拳大宗師郭雄虎 師祖

     郭雄虎宗師，原名細攔，福建惠安人。生於一九零一年。幼年因家貧跟隨山東曹复彪跑江湖，推銷膏藥。十七歲拜 [泉州十虎之一大個坊] 翁朝言宗師為師，泉州太祖拳名師為師，學習太祖拳，改名郭雄虎。學藝三年，功力大進，以拳聞名於鄉里。二十歲時移居馬來西亞檳城，先後在菜行，雜貨店打工，一年後，南下新加坡，投曾雷師門下學習太祖拳，甚受器重，被收誼子。四年後，返回檳城，隨郭應龍學太祖，又隨孫亞順學猴拳和五祖拳，兩方面均有較深的造詣，還開設健美學院，練舉重，鐵餅等。一年後越泰國著名拳師打擂台，以猴拳“仙人摘桃”打敗輕敵，獲得拳王稱和兩萬賞金。第二次世界大戰結束後，離開檳城南下新加坡，一九五一年創辦閩南國術研究社，兼任總教練，身兼太祖，五祖拳兩派拳藝之長。一九六七年新加坡首屆全國武術表演賽上，以六十六歲高齡摘取徒手冠軍和兵器亞軍的稱號。國術社培養出許多太祖拳名手。於一九九六年，郭師公逝世。

Tai Cho Fist Grandmaster Quek Hiong Hor  shi zu

     Grandmaster Quek Hiong Hor (Guo Xiong Hu) his former name was Xi Lan. He was from Hui An county, Fu Jian province. He was born in 1901. Because of poverty he followed Cao Fu  Bao to roam the martial art world and to sell medicine and plaster. At 17 he studied with one of the “Ten Tigers of Quan Zhou Da Ge Fang” Ong Tiau Hian (Weng Chao Yan), a well known Quan Zhou Tai Cho (Tai Zu) master. During these times he changed his name to Quek Hiong Hor (Guo Xiong Hu), within 3 years his skills in Tai Cho fist was great improved, he later became famous in his village.

      At age 20, he went to Penang, Malaysia, where he worked in the vegetables industry and later in a grocery. One year after he when to Singapore, where he studied Tai Cho fist under Ceng Lei, he later become his godson. After 4 years he return to Penang. Where he studied with another Tai Cho Fist master named Guo Ying Long and master Sun Ya Shun who teach him the Monkey Fist and Ngo Cho Fist (Five Ancestor). His good accomplish leads to his opening of a body building academy, a weight lifting center and a discus center. 

     After one year he went to Thailand, where he won a fight against a famous Thailand Boxer。 After the end of the second world war, he came back to Singapore and open the Man Lam Pugilist Association where he preside as chief instructor. In 1967 he competed at Singapore 1st National Martial Arts Exhibition Competition where he won1st place in the open hand and second in the weapon categories. His association groomed many Tai Cho practitioners. In 1994 he passed away at aged of 94.