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Kong Mien Ho was born in 1948 in the South Chinese Guangdong province.
He grew up in his village of birth, surrounded by beautiful mountains
and crossed by a clear river, which had a lasting influence on his love
for nature and desire for balance and harmony between people and the
environment.
In his village, as in most Chinese villages, there was a wide variety
of Chinese martial arts being practiced, which he came into contact with
at an early age. From his eight he learned the internal Wushu styles and
Taji Quan Yang Style from his uncle and nephew.
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At the age of 16 he started learning Pack Mee Pai with grandmaster
Lie Sai Keung.
Accompanied by this grandmaster, he deepened himself into different aspects
of traditional Chinese medicine, in special the treatment of injuries and bone
fractures, by means of herbs and massage (Tui na). At the age of 20 he got
permission to start an own school.
Besides Pack Mee Pai he kept practicing Taiji Quan during his teens. To
study further he returned to China in 1986 to take lessons from grandmaster
and historian Gu Liuxin in Shanghai. This recognized grandmaster is
an expert in different styles like Yang, Chen and Wu. With Gu Liuxin Kong Mien Ho
perfected his Yang style Taiji Quan.
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In 1987 he became a student of master Feng Zhiqiang, a grandmaster in the
Chen style and the last grandmaster of the old generation. Up until the death of Feng Zhiqiang on May 5th 2012, Kong Mien Ho used to return on a regular
basis to the grandmaster to improve and study further in Taiji Quan.
From the practice of Pack Mee Pai and Taiji Quan he started at the end of the
eighties to deepen himself even further in the art of Qi Gong. For this purpose
he followed lessons from different grandmasters in both Buddhist, Taoist and
medicinal Qi Gong. Today he practices both the hard (focused on martial art),
as the soft Qi Gong forms (especially for medical purposes). At the moment he
has a practice for Qi Gong Tui Na treatments in Amstelveen. He also takes care
of guest lectures at the education of physiotherapy at the "Hoge school
van Amsterdam".
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Since 1975 he teaches in the Netherlands, but everywhere in the world you can
find his
students,
among other places Belgium, China, Israel, Japan, Mexico and
Switzerland. In the eighties and nineties he was the coach of the national
Wushu team of Belgium and accompanied the athletes during the European and
World championships. Kong Mien Ho trains people that want to be the best in
the world with Wushu and Taiji Quan, but also regularly visits schools of his
students where he gives workshops and lectures.
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