NPC History 

Sifu Lai Khee 
Choong

Master Leow 
Cheong Koon

Sifu Quek 
Heng Choon

Shi Gao Can

Sifu Quek Heng Choon

Sifu Quek is in his mid-seventies. He is a traditional Shaolin Master of the Shi Gaocan (She Koh San) tradition, being a direct and personal student of Shi Gaocan. Shi Gaocan was the chief abbot of the Shaolin Temple in Singapore until his death in the early 1960s. He is a famous and well-respected martial arts figure, most renowned for the Lohan forms that he devised. Detailed historical information exists about him elsewhere and books have been written by many of his famous students, such as Master Phng of Penang, and the late Don Drager.

Sifu Quek Heng Choon came to Singapore as a child and, orphaned at an early age, was brought up in a Buddhist Temple in Singapore. He initially studied the Hung Gar style of Shaolin Chinese martial arts and then later went on to study under Shi Gaocan at the Temple in Toa Payoh. The exact date he commenced his studies with Shi Gaocan is uncertain, but from photographs it is clear that he was in his early teens.

Sifu Quek later moved up the Malaysian peninsula to Penang and Kuala Lumpur, where he opened his Shaolin schools. He is widely known in Singapore and Malaysia as the Iron Palm of Shaolin and is famous for his demonstrations, which include shattering a traditional Straits Chinese Marble tabletop with one strike of his palm and smashing green coconuts with his fingers.