Grandmaster Tjiong Wing Tak 張 榮 達

Grandmaster Tjiong Wing Tak founded the Shang Wu Athletic Association 尚 武 體 育 會 in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1956 to teach Chinese martial arts. The “Shang Wu” name dates back to the years shortly after the founding of the Jing Wu (Chin Woo) Athletic Association 精武體育會 in 1910 in Shanghai by the renown Kung Fu Master and Hero Huo Yuanjia 霍元甲.

Kung Fu schools in other parts of China which formed the resistance against foreign invasion during the period adopted the Shang Wu Athletic Association name to promote Huo’s philosophy of “Martial Spirit" (Shang Wu Jing Shen 尚武精神) and to honor his Jing Wu school and lineage.

In later years, “Shang Wu” schools would be opened by Chinese immigrants in other countries. Kung Fu was brought to Indonesia in the 1950s and was known as “Kuntao”. It was kept highly secretive and taught exclusively within Chinese communities. The Shang Wu Athletic Association Indonesia was among the largest schools for learning traditional Southern Kung Fu styles such as the Five Animals Fist / Ng Ying Kuen 五形拳 and Lion Dance in Jakarta Chinatown.

In 2010, Tjiong Wing Tak, his wife Kwong Siu Sing, son Allen Tjiong, and daughter-in-law Jennifer Tjiong founded the Shang Wu Athletic Association and Wushu Kung Fu Fitness Center in New Jersey, USA. The Wushu Kung Fu Fitness Center teaches traditional Kung Fu and contemporary Wushu for health, fitness, competition, and self defense.