Chan trained and promoted Chinese martial arts in China and abroad. He was coach of the Guangdong Province martial arts demonstration team from 1980 to 1982, a hand-to-hand fighting (Sanshou) instructor for an elite "Fut San" military unit, and a member of the executive committee of the Toi San region martial arts association. As a member of the national demonstration team (and through exhibitions at national level tournaments in the United States), Chan demonstrated internal martial arts (Qigong), Iron Palm and Iron Body.