Roger D. Hagood

Author, Publisher, and Teacher

Start training or further your understanding and ability, by taking the Courses herein. Visit and study Hakka Southern Praying Mantis, with me, in beautiful sunny south China!  I am an Author, Publisher and Producer of books, eBooks, journals, videos and 7 International martial arts newsstand magazines, in 15 countries, with some 55 years, in training and teaching martial arts, and some 40+ years living, in China and Asia!

Currently residing in beautiful sunny south China, for the last 19 years, where I teach Southern Praying Mantis.  Join my class, in Guangdong, or get started today, with the Online Courses!

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Southern Mantis Press:  Author & Publisher

Hakka Mantis books written and published:

• Pingshan Mantis Celebration
• Eighteen Buddha Hands
• Chu Gar Gao
• China Southern Praying Mantis Kungfu Survey
• Som Bo Gin Two Man Form
• Grandmasters of China: Volume One
• Chu Gar Mantis
• Chu Gar Skills
• Chu Gar Fist
• Pictorial Book of Boxing Postures and Maxims

International Newsstand Magazines

RDH Past Publications include:

• Martial Arts of China
• Wushu Kungfu
• Wushu Qigong
• Chi Kung Magazine
• Dojo Magazine
• Dojang Magazine
• Budo Magazine

Fifty Years of Martial Arts, Forty Years Hakka Mantis

RDH has operated Martial Arts Schools in USA, Korea, Taiwan, and China

Some RDH programs include:

• Hakka Mantis DVD Correspondence Program
• Tien Tao Chi Kung Correspondence Program
• Oriental Secrets Series
• MantisFlix Movies and Events

Bamboo Temple Chinese Benevolent Association

Begun in 1963, RDH continues to serve as Standing Chairman

Sifu Wong Bak Lim (left), Master Lam’s first inner gate disciple, founded the Bamboo Temple Chinese Benevolent Association, Circa 1963, in New York City.  The announcement was featured in the local Chinatown newspapers and Chinese media.  Today, we continue to carry forward this legacy more than half a century later.  RDH (red), Jesse Eng Sibok, and late Harry Sun Sibok (right) circa 1993, carrying onward.

Visit our website:  www.bambootemple.com

Wong Baklim (left white shirt smiling) and
Lam Sang (center) circa 1963, NYC

Hong Kong Cheng Wan Chu Gar Mantis Association

RDH has served as Standing Chairman since 2002

The late Cheng Wan Sifu was one of kind. He was old fashioned and yet high tech. He was Hakka with International friends. He aged but remained young at heart. Very few remain alive today of his Chu Gar Mantis generation.

His annual Celebrations always included dozens of demonstrations and awards from various styles including Chu Gar, Bok Mei White Eyebrow, Dragon Shadow, Choy Li Fut, Hung Gar, Wing Chun, North Shaolin, Qigong and many more. Almost every style in Hong Kong was always represented!

For 35 years or more, every year, hundreds of folks, from the world over, gathered on or near his birthday in the Summer to celebrate the spirit of Chinese Kungfu in Hong Kong!

Visit our website:  www.chugarmantis.com

RDH and Cheng Wan Sifu, 2002

RDH Lineage 

 RDH Lineage Kwongsai and Chu Gar Mantis

RDH:  I started training in the 1960s.  If you are reading this, I likely was training Mantis, before you were born.  I started training USA Kwongsai Mantis with Louie Jack Man, in the 1970s.  I made ceremony to Mark Gin Foon, in 1980.  I first arrived at Hong Kong’s Chu Gar Door in 1983.  I made Chu Gar ceremony to Gene Chen, in San Fran, circa 1988 and Cheng Wan Sifu, Hong Kong, 2002.   In 2013, with Chen Jianming, I opened the first public Chu Gar School in Lao Sui’s hometown. I’ve been coming to Pingshan since 1992, and haven’t left Pingshan in the last 15 years.  This year’s Hakka Mantis New Year celebration, in Pingshan Town, was attended by more than a thousand people.  I continue my association with the Hong Kong Chu Gar clans, Lao Sui’s hometown family and Chu Gar clans, and the Kwongsai Mantis Clans in Hong Kong, China, and the USA. Your visit is welcome.  Join the Hakka Mantis Boxing International Community and start training today.