sifu Pavel Macek and International Hung Kyun Association

Pavel Macek sifu 保羅師傅, born in the Year of Fire Dragon, has been involved in Chinese martial arts since 1991. In 1997 he travelled with his friend Ales Kocian to California and began studying traditional Lam Family Hung Kyun (Lam Ga Hung Kyun, LGHK 林家洪拳) under the guidance of grandmaster Y.C. Wong (Wong Yiujing 黃耀楨師傅) and his son, master Raymond Wong Hongit 黃漢傑師傅 (www.tigercrane.com) in San Francisco's Chinatown.

In the fall of 1998 he had the first chance to train with grandmaster Lam Chun Sing (Lam Jansing 林鎮成師傅, www.hunggakuen.org), the youngest son of grandmaster Lam Jou 林祖師傅 and has continued to train under the guidance of master Lam in 1999 (Hong Kong, Prague), 2000 (Hong Kong), 2002 (Hong Kong, Prague), 2003 (Prague, Italy, Slovakia) and 2004 (Prague, Slovakia). In 1999-2001 sifu Pavel Macek worked together with Ales Kocian as a leading founder of the Czech Y.C. Wong Gung Fu Association 捷克黃耀楨國術學會 (www.tigercrane.cz). In 2002, together with his friends and students, he founded the International Hung Kyun Association 國際洪拳會 (IHKA).

Sifu Pavel Macek 保羅師傅 has devoted the last decade to the study, practice, teaching and researching of LGHK. He is an author of many translations, articles and studies. In 1997 he translated for Knockout magazine, In 1999-2000 he was a freelance wrighter for Attack magazine and in 2000-2001 he worked as a special advisor for teleview Fight Pro. He has taught and continues teach LGHK to students from many different countries such as Slovakia, England, France, Germany, Sweeden, Scotland, Russia, Italy, Greece, Island, USA, Brazil, Vietnam and Mexico.

In 2000 he won 1st place at the 1st International Hung Ga Gung Fu Championship in Karlsruhe (Germany). In the same year he graduated from Charles University with a thesis on traditional Chinese martial arts. Along with his "Gung Fu cousin" Charris van't Slot,a student of master Lam Chun Fai (Lam Janfai 林鎮輝師傅), he founded the website Hung Ga United (www.hungga.net), a site devoted to the research of history, curriculum and principles of HG. In 2003 he has co-founded a Czech internet magazine bojovaumeni.cz (martialarts.cz in Czech) for which he currently works as a special advisor. He also frequently writes articles as freelance writter for German kungfuwebmag.de since 2005.

The International Hung Kyun Association (IHKA 國際洪拳會) is an association in the traditional Chinese manner, i.e. "family". The basic idea of the training of LGHK in IHKA is a complex developement of oneself - self-defence, good health and spiritual - an individual approach to the student and a methodical and logical system of teaching. Apart from teaching and promotingLam Ga Hung Kyun both in Europe and overseas IHKA is devoted to other activities - book publication, lectures on different subjects (philosophy, art, traditional Chinese medicine, fengshui), thematic videoprojection etc. It also co-operates with other national and international assocations of martial arts in organizing exhibitions and championships. Please contact info@lghk.org to find out how to establish an IHKA branch in your country.

Sifu Pavel Macek, Grandmaster Lam Chun Sing and the students of International Hung Kyun Association