Jow Ga Shaolin Institute

Sifu Hon Lee

Sifu Hon Lee is co-founder and Director of the Jow Ga Shaolin Institute. He has spent more than 30 years studying, researching and teaching a variety of traditional Asian martial arts. While living and working in Asia over a 20-year period, he persistently sought out and studied under renowned masters of Kung Fu and Tai Chi in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. For example, while living in China, he had the rare privilege of learning the Northern system of Mizong Chuan as well as the complete set of ancient Qing Ping sword routines under Master Lu Junhai, Grandmaster of the Mizong system. During Sifu Lee's lifetime of training, he attained a high level of skill in several different styles, including a black belt from Shotokan Karate Headquarters in Tokyo. Of all the styles he has practiced, however, Sifu Lee considers the Jow Ga system his favorite and uses it

Sifu Hon Lee

as the foundation for instructing his own students. He first began learning Jow Ga in Washington, D.C. in 1971 under the tutelage of Master Dean Chin and Sifu Hoy K. Lee. He was Master Dean Chin's Chief of Staff when the latter established the headquarters for the U.S. Jow Ga Kung Fu Association in 1973, and remains a senior instructor for the Association. While living in Hong Kong from 1975-78, Sifu Lee had the honor of continuing his Jow Ga training under Grandmaster Chan Man Cheung's personal instruction. He was subsequently accepted as one of only a handful of Grandmaster's disciples, and is a certified instructor for Chan Man Cheung's Chinese Boxing Association.

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