师父刘奔 Sifu Benjamin Colussi
The quest for Kung Fu is the story of my life.
I spent a long time searching for the style and the master, each being inseparable from the other. One embodying the other. Fascinated by the dexterity such a practice demands, but also by the values it instills the very bedrock of character building: tenacity, a hard-working spirit, the pursuit of excellence, honor, courage, and benevolence.
My journey took me to Foshan, where I became successively a disciple of Sifu Chan Yau Man, Sifu Lao Wei Kei, and Sifu Lao Wei San. I share a rare bond with Lao Wei San, who ultimately named me his heir.
To pass on knowledge is to sustain, to honor, and above all, to ignite the sacred flame of the practice.
Thus, in 2011, I opened my school, naming it “Lao Wei San Pak Mei” the name of my master alongside the name of the style.
Located in the heart of Paris, the hall is fully dedicated to practice. Like any art, time and discipline are the key words to mastering the craft.
Pak Mei is a sophisticated, rare martial art. Renowned, yet shrouded in secrecy.
Promoting Kung Fu and its culture has always been my ambition, whether through the level of my disciples, the quality of our lion dances as culture is inseparable from the art, or my various demonstrations and conferences… such as at Bercy in 2018, where I broke a 4.5 cm brick with folded knuckles to demonstrate the effectiveness of this little-known strike. When Sloclap contacted me to serve as the inspiration for the main character, the fight choreographer, and the Kung Fu cultural consultant for the video game “SIFU”, I accepted. The global success and the way the game was received in China touches me deeply.
I draw a sharp distinction between the martial art itself Pak Mei, its transmission and my creative approach, which I call “the art of lightning hands”.
Being the heir to a master like Lao Wei San is something truly special. That is why I teach strictly according to the codes passed down to me, honoring his will, his high standards, and preserving this level of excellence while offering my own Kung Fu which is the expression of my own personality and martial choices : my vision.
Benjamin Colussi / 刘奔
师爷刘伟新 Siyé Lao Wei San
Siye Lao Wei San is originally from Foshan. He is the second son and heir of Tai Siye Lao Sieu Leung.
He kept secret his Kung Fu for many long years in order to focus on his career and family. In 2009, he decided to open his school to perpetuate Pak Mei and in honor of his father’s memory.
Nowadays, Siye Lao Wei San has a peaceful life dedicated to the teaching of Pak Mei Kung Fu. Having an extraordinary level, he chose to share his knowledge of martial arts and ethics to a few disciples only.
In 2010, he created the Foshan Pak Mei Sport Association to gather Pak Mei schools that are the inheritors of his father’s teaching.
Siye Lao Wei San had the pleasure to meet the disciples of his heir Sifu Benjamin Culos when he was invited in France in 2012.
On the 3rd of September, 2016, Siye Lao Wei San came to Paris to inaugurate the LWS Pak Mei School, and opened the Parisian branch of the Foshan Pak Mei Sport Association to strengthen the links between the Foshan and Paris schools.
师公刘伟基 Sigong Lao Wei Kei
Sigong Lao Wei Kei is the first-born and heir of Tai Siye Lao Siu Leung. He began teaching Pak Mei as soon as 1978. The Kung Fu school that he created in 2003 was named “Lao Siu Leung Memorial”, in honor of his father.
Very close to his brother Lao Wei San, he shares with him the passion of Kung Fu and a will to perpetuate the Pak Mei of their father.
师公陈幼民 Sigong Chan Yau Man
Sigong Chan Yau Man is one of the first disciples of Lao Siu Leung, and one of the few that were recognized Sifu by him. As he is very requested, he has accepted to teach Pak Mei only to a few disciples.
Sigong Chan Yau Man is first a Master in Lion Dance. His team of dancers won twice the China Lion Dance Championship, and for many years, has been performing in the memory of Wong Fei Hung (a renowned Master of Kung Fu and medicine practitioner) in the Foshan Ancestral Temple.
The reputation of Sigong Chan Yau Man’s Lion Dances spreads beyond Foshan, all over China and the world. His team was invited to give a demonstration for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and to be the ambassador of Chinese lore in many countries, such as Japan, Korea, Thailand, Arab Emirates and France.
Sigong Chan passed away in 2019.
太师爷刘少良 Tai Siyé Lao Siu Leung
Tai Siyé Lao Siu Leung was born in Foshan and learnt Pak Mei in Guangzhou, where he spent a part of his life. In 1965, he came back to his hometown where he began teaching his Kung Fu.
Tai Siyé Lao SiuLeung was rapidly renowned both for his level of exception and the effectiveness of his style. Many martial artists asked to become one of his disciples.
During the Cultural Revolution, he was compelled to teach his art secretly, as he was in threat of imprisonment like most of the Kung Fu masters at the time. He taught his whole knowledge to his two sons and heirs Lao Wei Kei and Lao Wei San, before dying in 1977.
Tai Siyé Lao Siu Leung remains a famous master, whose extraordinary level, rigor and equity are the subjects to praise.