SIFU JAI
(A.K.A. Hung Gong-keung)
濟施符
(又稱洪江強)
Officially Sanctioned Founder of USA Hung Fut Pai
美國創辦人

Sifu Jai was born on the lower East side of Manhattan in the early sixties (before the current state of gentrification). The neighborhood was quite rough back then and some form of protection was necessary. Young master Jai was fortunate enough to
come across a flyer in Chinatown which advertised Hung Fut Kung-fu as taught by Master Yeung Kai. Sifu Jai became his student as soon as possible. Once in the school he made quick progress, partially due to lots of street fighting (losing) experience and also due to natural talent. After several years he eventually became Yeung Kai's top inside student. Because of his skills and respect he finally graduated and became a master in 1980 and opened up his own school in 1985. He taught there until 2002 when the City of New York imposed urban renewal on the building and had it demolished. In 1995 without any introductions Sifu Jai traveled to Hong Kong in search the “Grandmasters” of Hung Fut (the term Grandmasters is used loosely here because as you should know by reading the Hung Fut History that “Grandmasters”, as it were, have been abolished and replaced by a more democratic form of order). He had three addresses of two great grandmasters and one grandmaster. But as it turned out, the two great grandmasters had already passed on and the one remaining grandmaster had moved with no forwarding address. Now with no hope of finding any of them, he wandered around Hong Kong, aimlessly. At one point he was riding on the top of a double-decker bus in Kowloon, watching the thousands of vertical billboards pass by. When all of a sudden he saw a sign that read 洪錦培跌打醫舘 ”Hung Kam Pui’s Dit-da Clinic”. It said nothing of Hung Fut, but he recognized the name of the Grand Master. So he got off the bus and went directly to the school. After Chief Supervisor Hung Gam Pui asked Sifu Jai to show him all of the Gungf-fu that Master Yeung Kai had showed him, he was positively impressed. But Hung Gum Pui noticed that he was lacking the pole technique, so he taught him the "Little Lefty Crazy Devil Staff" right off. During that time Sifu Jai often worked out with 王子 The Prince Afterwards, Hung Gum Pui taught him the "qualifying Masters" form known as 洪拳佛掌 Hung's Fist - Buddha Palm. The following year, Sifu Jai brought Phil Auffrey and several of his students to meet the Chief Supervisor. All students from America that have met the Chief Supervisor is because Sifu Jai had the grace to open the door and invite them over. Otherwise he could never be found. Back then there was no website or anything else, especially in English. People who live in Hong Kong could aleays find him, no problem. But not an outsider.

So how is it that if 楊啟 Yeung Kai and 閻泰Tai Yim taught Hung Fut in America years before Sifu Jai did,

but Sifu Jai is known as the USA Founder of Hung Fut Gung-fu?

Simply because they were both renegade Masters who came out and taught without being sanctioned

by the 香港洪佛國術總會 Hong Kong Hung Fut Kung Fu Association.
In other words, Sifu Jai is the first Master to teach Hung Fut Gung-fu in the USA as sanctioned
by the Hong Kong Hung Fut Kung Fu Association 香港洪佛國術總會.