Fu Jow Pai is a southern Chinese (Hoy Hong Temple) kung fu style, featuing hard & soft blocks, snapping kicks, and various hand strikes including the Tiger Claw. Rigorous training is both challenging and rewarding. The style's intricate forms combine athletic grace with powerful delivery. One-on-one application of techniques, closely supervised, equips the student with effective skills.
The class begins with traditional & innovative exercises for strength, flexibility, coordination, followed by "jop mai" body conditioning, including various routines involving BB bags. Then students are taught "empty hand" forms, and for advanced students weapons (staff, spear, three-sectional staff, single & double hand swords), followed by application of kung fu techniques: blocks, strikes, kicks, take-downs, breaks, etc. and strategies for self-defense, sparring, fighting.
The class was begun in 1982 by sifu Eric Brugnoni, who after some karate and aikido training earlier in his life found satisfaction with this style of kung fu through training with sifu Wo Look for 10 years. With Brugnoni's unexpected death in 2024 the class is now led by his assistant teachers (sihing): Greg Dinger and Steve Saguid. They too trained under sifu Wo Look, and now continue the tradition of this dynamic martial art.
