Ohio Pak Mei Athletic Association

While we strive to live in peace and harmony within our environment, the chaos of violence can be forced upon us at any moment. Even when we exhibit excellent manners, refrain from offending others, treating all people with kindness and mutual respect, there are people who have no respect for human rights and who take pleasure in hurting and abusing others, these lawless, bullying oppressors have no sense of fairplay or sportsmenship, they will attempt to use the element of surprise, attacking in greater numbers and use weapons, they are willing even to kill innocent children.

How do we communicate with such people who have no patience for reasoning, who often act from a total lack of emotional control or who try to select people to victimize based on if they are confident they have the advantage?

This is where you may expect me to give you a sales pitch about getting instruction in some style of martial arts but the truth is that even if you spend ten years receiving instruction it will not make a difference if you have yet to personally make a commitment to yourself to protect your life and the lives of your loved ones with the courage of a fierce tiger even in the face of overwhelming odds.

These ingredients of commitment and courage are essential ingredients to unlock the ability to actually use what you learn in martial arts in an effective way. They are also neccessary to motivate you to attend your scheduled classes and not to give up when the training is difficult.

When you inwardly reflect, do you find that you possess the heart of a protector, do you have the heroic courage that is willing to do what is neccessary to protect yourself and your loved ones? If the answer is Yes, then you are ready to begin learning Martial Arts, without this courage and commitment you would only be playing at a fantasy and would give up as soon as things become difficult.

//About Our Association

The White Eyebrow Style of Chinese Martial Arts was developed by religious men who dwelt in temples and devoted themselves to spiritual studies, It was not until the 4th generation during a time of great upheavel, civil war and foreign invasion that it was permitted to be taught to the public. It was Great Grandmaster Cheung Lai-Chuen 張禮泉 of the 4th generation, in the 1920s who opened up the first Pak Mei Kuen schools in Guangzhaou, China and later taught the system in Hong Kong.

One of Great Grandmaser Cheung Lai-Chuen's early students was Master Ng Yiu. Master Ng Yiu was a senior disciple and an important fifth-generation figure in the White Eyebrow martial art. Lineage sources identify him as a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, who began studying under Great Grandmaster Cheung Lai-Chuen at about age fifteen and later taught in Guangzhou before following Grandmaster Cheung Lai-Chuen to Hong Kong in 1949.

He is remembered both as a Pak Mei instructor and as a herbal practitioner with a business in Sham Shui Po. His 1977 book, Pak Mei Tiger Fork, is a surviving published record of his weapons teaching. No reliable public source for his death date has been found. A fifth-generation Pak Mei source states that Ng was among Grandmaster Cheung Lai-Chuen's early students permitted to open a school under Grandmaster Cheung Lai-Chuen’s supervision in the second half of the 1920s. This places him among the generation that helped Pak Mei move from a smaller local network into a broader public teaching tradition. A branch biography says that Grandmaster Cheung Lai-Chuen appointed him to lead the first Lai-chuen Kung Fu Association branch on Kwei-tong Street in Guangzhou and that he also taught at a military academy. The same account describes the Lai-chuen organization as having eighteen Guangzhou branches.

Master Lam Hung of the 6th generation Pak Mei, a.k.a. William Lam was a disciple of Master Ng Yiu. He taught Pak Mei Kuen to my Sifu Simon Lui a.k.a. Lui Long Chun 雷龍春 of the 7th generation, starting in 1974 when they worked together in Toronto, Canada. I am of the 8th generation of the Pak Mei Pai.

In Short, our lineage is as follows:

Pak Mei Dao Ren

Abbot Gwong Wai

Monk Juk Faat-wan

Great Granmaster Cheung Lai-chuen

Grandmaster Ng Yiu

Master Lum Hung

Sifu Simon Lui

Sami Ibrahim

You will learn more about our lineage and the history of Pak Mei Kuen if you are accepted for instruction.