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Mr. Leong immediately agreed. In fact, he was enthusiastic about the idea. We decided that we would present the information in the first book again, but in an abbreviated fashion, and then present a second empty-hand form, followed by a weapon form and its applications.

Between 1996 and 1999, I made three trips to Malaysia to work with Cheong Cheng Leong on the book you now hold in your hands. During this time, however, the first book came back into print, which was both good and bad news. Since the first book was published by Weatherhill and this new book was to be published by Tuttle, it would be a conflict of interest (and perhaps a legal problem) to present the same information. So, after some discussion, Mr. Leong and I decided to present in the new book a more detailed history of the art, historical photographs that did not appear in the first book, a two-person empty-hand fighting form (so that those interested in learning how to train and apply the empty-hand form presented in the first book would have a means of doing so), the basics necessary to correctly execute the two-person empty-hand fighting form, one of the two pole forms, an overview of all the Chuka weapons, a few applications of each, two-person strength and conditioning exercises, and the chi kung and healing dimensions of the art, which had not been written about before.