Over 330 years ago, Southern Shaolin monks and Ming Dynasty military officers created one of the most efficient martial science combat system (cold combat) in history, Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun. Until now, that system was taught only to revolutionary combat recruits in Secret Societies throughout Southern China. In 1999, Grand Master Garrett Gee, the inheritor of Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun elected to open the system to Public view and training. The Ving Tsun Museum's West Coast Branch (Meng's Martial Arts of Arizona) was the site for the historic first-ever public workshop on Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kung Fu in April 2000 to get things started. Due to popular demand, a second public workshop was conducted at the Ving Tsun Museum in the fall of 2000.

March 2001 marked the passing of another milestone in the history of Hung Fa Yi with the Grand Opening of the first public Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun Kwoon in the art's 330 year history. With the opening of this headquarters facility, Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun is now being offered in three beautiful, full-time martial arts facilities strategically located across the United States to bring the best of Wing Chun to the public.

Grand Master Garrett Gee opened the Hung Fa Yi Headquarters Kwoon in San Francisco with prominent members of the Bay Area Martial Arts community, Ving Tsun Museum staff East and West present for the ceremonies. Attendant with this Grand Opening, Grand Master Gee has authorized other locations to teach Hung Fa Yi Wing Chun as well. Meng's Martial Arts, one of the largest and best equipped training facilities and the only martial arts museum in the West opened classes for Mid-West / East Coast students in Dayton, Ohio, under the direction of Master Benny Meng. Simultaneously, Meng's Martial Arts of Arizona, under the direction of Sifu Richard Loewenhagen, opened Hung Fa Yi classes for the Western United States in what must be described as one of the finest Wing Chun training facilities in the world. This 5,000 square foot facility features 2 training floors, high-tech visual training presentation equipment, 43 Wing Chun classes per week, and professional fitness training in a 1200 square foot Olympic fitness center.

Beautiful frontage of the Hung Fa Kwoon Headquarters	Grand Opening ceremony and Head Master paying respects to Kwan Gung	Happy, Grand Opening group photo.

Adult training class in the spacious, clean, environment

Curator Benny Meng by the Ving Tsun Museum Cornerstone, 1996.

Storefront to Hung Fa Yi Branch School / Meng's Martial Arts of Arizona	The well-known VTM Logo	Two roots of Meng's family
Full Nautilus and free-weight training facility	Main training floor	Second training floor
(l/r) Sifu Loewenhagen and Sifu Meng, seated at the Hung Fa Yi Tong	(l/r) Sifu Loewenhagen and Sifu Meng, standing next to the Moy Yat school crest	White Tiger / Green Dragon Wooden Dummy