New York Hung Ga Kung Fu Martial Arts Academy

New York Hung Ga wishes everyone a Happy Chinese Lunar New Year. Gung Hay Fot Choy, Sun Nian Fai Lok. Health and Prosperity to all who visit our web site.

New York Hung Ga is once again doing a lion dance/kung fu show at the China Institute to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year on Sunday, February 5, 2012. The show will be from 11:00 - 12 noon, outdoors (dress appropriately), and is free to the public. The address is 125 E. 65th Street.

January 23, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. Instead of the usual astrological information on Dragon personalities, here are some tidbits of the Chinese Dragon you may not know:

• The Dragon was the symbol of the Emperor of China
• Only he was allowed to wear that symbol on his clothes
• Anyone else who wore it was subject to death

In Hung Ga Kung Fu:

• The dragon trains the Spirit (unike the other animals, which teaches something physical)
• It also trains the twisting power
• It's associated with the Earth Element

New York Hung Ga wishes everyone a happy holiday season!

New York Hung Ga has expanded its schedule starting with next month's classes (September 2011), to include specific forms and sparring classes. Please remember to always consult the Calendar section for the full current schedule.

CCNY student Bernard Lee has produced a video, "Kung Fu in New York", which features our Sifu Yui Chow and New York Hung Ga. To watch the video, click here.

New York Hung Ga will be closed, and there will be no classes, on Monday, September 5, 2011, in observance of the Labor Day holiday.

Wondering what practitioners of other martial arts styles think about New York Hung Ga? Check out the discussion forums on the Kung Fu Magazine site, about some of our YouTube videos:

• Discussion of the NYHG "Ten Killing Hands" video
• Discussion of the NYHG "Iron Wire" video

A message from Sifu Matt:

On Saturday, July 2nd, from 12pm to 1pm, we will be meeting at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park to celebrate July 4th with Kung Fu  fireworks! This will be a fun routine: 25 minutes of Kung Fu strength training, 20 minutes of Kung Fu fitness, and the rest will be for stretching. Since we won't have class on Monday, this will be a good replacement - hope to see you there!

The following article was written by our own Sifu Chris Alexander and published in "Legends of Martial Arts" magazine, including demonstration photos of Sifu Chris and Sifu Matt.

In my younger years, I was a bit of a rabble rouser, and from the start, always regarded the martial arts from a combative point of view. I studied some karate, some kickboxing, and some Thai boxing, all with the notion that one day I would be called upon to use them in some emergency (usually one that could easily fit into the plot of any martial arts movie). During the Eighties, my search ended: I took up Hung-ga Kung-fu, and ended up staying with the style.

Please note that New York Hung Ga will be closed on Monday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday. Classes will resume according to the regular schedule on Wednesday, July 6.

Now available on DVD is Azunne Arts' "Hung Ga Kung Fu", which features demonstrations by - you guessed it - New York Hung Ga!

In observance of Memorial Day, there will be no classes & the school will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2011.

New York Hung Ga will be doing a lion dance / kung fu show at the China Institute on Sunday, February 6 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. The event is free and open to the public. The China Institute is located 125 East 65th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues.

New York Hung Ga wishes everyone a Happy Chinese Lunar New Year. Gung Hay Fot Choy, Sun Nian Fai Lok. Health and Prosperity to all who visit our web site.

Welcome to the new year, and to the new web site for New York Hung Ga. Some of the features and content you will find include the following:

New York Hung Ga has recently relocated (just around the block to 26th Street), and we're taking a couple of weeks off to organize. Classes will resume on Monday, January 17 at 6:30 p.m. - come and help us celebrate with a grand re-opening workout!

New York Hung Ga is on Facebook. You can find us at www.facebook.com/NewYorkHungGa. Please visit our page and click the "Like" button.

Due to the unpredictability of the roads today, Monday, December 27, 2010, New York Hung Ga will be closed and there will be no classes this evening.

You can follow New York Hung Ga on Twitter. Please go to www.twitter.com/NYHungGa and click to "Follow" us. You will then be able to receive our "tweets" via text messages on your cell phone or PDA, including immediate notification of important school announcements.