page_title: Lam Cho
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Lam Cho / Later life
caption_attribution_description: 石水渠街, Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchai, Hong Kong Created by Jam Mei SUM
context_page_description: Lam Cho was the Hung Ga Grandmaster and Dit Da practitioner of the Lam Family Hung Ga lineage. He was widely known as the spiritual Hung Ga successor to his adoptive uncle and well-known martial artist Lam Sai-wing.
context_section_description: As well as his adopted son Tang, Lam's well-known senior students who eventually went overseas to promote Hung Ga were Kwong Tit Fu (鄺鐵夫; died 1999, Boston), Y.C. Wong (黃耀楨; San Francisco) and Buck Sam Kong (江北山; Kong's Siu Lum Pai Assn., Los Angeles).
  Although Lam officially retired in the 1970s, he continued to practice his martial arts and treated patients at Mong Kok on a regular basis with assistance of his youngest daughter Lam Fung-chu.
  In January 2008, Lam was invited to attend the Wong Fei-hung's 160th birthday anniversary commemorative ceremony in Nanhai as Hung Ga's most senior representative.
  Soon after his 100th lunar birthday in March 2010, Lam suffered a stroke and was taken to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital at Kowloon Tong. His training school and Dit Da clinic in Mong Kok had been taken over by his third son Simon Lam and youngest daughter respectively.
  Meanwhile, his adopted son Tang Kwok-wah died in Quincy on 22 November 2011.
caption: Lam Cho's former martial arts school at Blue House in 2006. Currently known as Lam Chun-hin Clinic (林鎮顯醫館) by his late son Lam Chun-hin (林鎮顯)
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